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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #288976 |
If skimming through the post didn't look immediately awful, I'm wondering if you are viewing on mobile, where I've just been informed the problem does not exist. On desktop the expandable details section has a summary which is a code block stretching out and partly obscuring the right hand side panel... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Highlight which rendered results are broken in the editor preview |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Mention this may not be noticed until next time |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Some code blocks extend into the right hand panel on desktop If a code block contains a line too long to fit in the available horizontal space, the excess to the right is hidden, with a scroll bar to allow seeing the rest (this is a good thing): Raw text: ````text ```text This is an exceptionally long line for the purpose of demonstrating what happens wh... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288715 |
Post edited: Link to related post |
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| Edit | Post #287892 |
Post edited: Link to related post |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
I should have reread my 9 month old post before responding to your comment. I've now spotted my earlier misunderstanding and edited to reflect your comment.
I raised the GitHub issue earlier today, with my current understanding, and forgot that my understanding 9 months ago when I wrote this post ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287245 |
Post edited: Explain that the number is useful |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate the difference. The bug is not that there is title text, but that the title text is applied to the container instead of the element. It just needs to be made more specific.
Hovering over "1.1k" and seeing "1063" makes perfect sense.
Hovering near the sor... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287837 |
Post edited: Add note that duplicate flags now require details |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287837 |
For me, a duplicate flag with empty Details section is submitted successfully (and shows up to a moderator) in my local development environment, but is rejected with a red message "Details are required for this flag type - please enter at least 15 characters" on the dev server. Both are using the lat... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287245 |
Post edited: Link to GitHub issue |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288931 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Get rid of minimum character requirements Prevent zero only - I'm comfortable with preventing users from posting zero character comments and posts. - I agree there are times when insisting on 15 characters is unhelpful. - For comments, I see no reason to make the minimum higher than 1. - For posts, I'd expect them to be longer but 15 is ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288896 |
Thanks for explaining. With priviliges and abilities being two separate things, it might be worth making the separation more definite. The screenshot in this answer exclusively uses "privileges" in the Roles section, and "abilities" in the Recalc Abilities section, but the screenshots in the question... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288886 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Cannot view with no filter when a category has a default filter This is the filter section above a post list: Filter section showing the default filter for the category In a category where I have set a default filter, I can temporarily view the post list using a different filter by selecting it from the "Predefined Filters" drop down box, and then clicking ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
At some point I got a persistent zero (persisting until I manually refreshed the page) but haven't seen it since (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
Somewhere in trying to work out the steps to reproduce this I also ended up with a blue notification circle with a zero in it, but I haven't been able to make that happen again. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
I am. Steps to reproduce:
1. Open this page in 2 tabs.
2. Mark your top notification as unread.
3. Close the notification panel and see the blue notification circle.
3. Switch to the other tab and click on the unread notification.
4. Switch back to the first tab and see the blue notification cir... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288858 |
I like this approach. I also enjoy overthinking, so I'm not best placed to judge whether it's more than we need, so I'm interested to see what others think.
Since we already have at least 1 other instance, and possibly more we don't know about, committing to not breaking existing behaviour without... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288828 |
The [answer explaining why we shouldn't do this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288828/288834#answer-288834) has plenty of upvotes (including mine) so I'm pretty sure we're safe from this happening. I have been thoroughly convinced that my suggestion is a bad idea... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288834 |
The post you link to discusses questions, rather than answers, which makes me realize what I was overlooking:
An answerer will generally put `--` inside a code block or inline code, so it won't get converted, but someone asking a question is less likely to know to do this, so we can't rely on it.
... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
That's one difference with Codidact - there is no voting on comments. There is only voting on posts (questions/answers/articles). The [reputation per vote is adjustable though](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288728). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288828 |
Post edited: Clarification |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288828 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should we render double hyphen as an em dash? Some places render "--" (double hyphen) as "—" (em dash). Currently Codidact does not -- so these are left as double hyphens in both the edit preview and a rendered post (like that). Would it be useful for Codidact to automatically render double hyphen as an em dash? Are there settings in... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288825 |
Post edited: Replace "--" with "—" as the markdown renderer doesn't do this for us |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288825 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
We have a [community called Collab for people working on the software behind Codidact](https://collab.codidact.org/categories/56). It's not the test community you're asking about, but it can help with setting up a local development instance of the software which would allow you to try out whatever yo... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
To post the previous comment, which contains triple backticks inside a code block, you can use quadruple backticks to wrap it as shown below (which uses quintuple backticks to allow showing the quadruple backticks):
`````text
````text
Example triple backticks inside a code block:
```text
some
... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
You can see how someone achieved a given format in a post by pressing "Suggest Edit" to see the raw markdown, but since you can't edit other people's comments, here's the raw markdown for the previous comment's formatting:
````text
You can also use `inline code`, [links](https://meta.codidact.com... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
You can also use `inline code`, [links](https://meta.codidact.com/help/formatting "Post formatting help"), **bold**, *italics*,
```text
code blocks
for multiple lines
```
> quote blocks
> for, uh, quotes
- bullet
- points
1. numbered
1. lists
> quote blocks containing
> - bulle... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
Just to highlight this in case any downvoters see this as a reason to retract a downvote. I can't know the reason for downvotes, but the animation seemed like the worst thing about the linked question so I thought I'd mention it here where objectors might see it. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288817 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288816 |
Post edited: Add some tags |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288818 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Let's not allow animated avatars. Switch off animation until a decision is made I've posted an answer listing possible options which can be discussed over time, but I recommend that in the meantime animation is suppressed completely. Switching animation off everywhere for everyone is much quicker and easier than implementing a ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
I agree we need to do something, but I would recommend a solution built into the site rather than a rule that takes up moderator time to enforce. Whether the decision is to ban animation altogether, or to allow users to opt in or out of seeing them, the site should enforce this so users do not have t... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288817 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Let's not allow animated avatars. I was in the middle of drafting a very similar Meta question when I noticed this one had just been posted. I will instead post my thoughts here as an answer, to prompt further discussion. I see the current situation (everyone sees animated avatars whether they like it or not) as a problem, but there ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #277974 |
Post edited: Remove redundant "Feature request: " from title to reduce clutter on question page |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 |
Post edited: Link to original GitHub issue |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 |
Post edited: Link to recent GitHub issue for the same problem |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288799 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories? With many different Codidact communities and more being proposed, along with other organisations that have their own instances of the QPixel software, it seems unlikely that any single one of these suggestions will be consistently the best approach. Each occasion may have a different approach that wo... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288797 |
I wonder if "Not here (use new site)" might be better, so that mobile users see "Not here (use new" which gives more of a hint that there's something new to look out for. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288795 |
Post edited: Link to general question |
— | 10 months ago |