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Posts by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Use question body preview to navigate to a question

Should clicking on the question body preview in the question list take you to the question page, in the same way as clicking on the question title does? I personally would find this more convenien...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Sorting answers without a page reload

Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers: Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion. For cases where ...

0 answers  ·  posted 26d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 20d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Codidact Collab - should it be listed?

An example in favour of listing Need Help Setting Up Email Verification in Codidact is a question that was posted to Codidact Meta, because this is the closest match of the communities in the drop...

posted 26d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Shortcut links from All Communities

I love the new "All Communities" section of the user profile page. I've already found it useful several times. I have an idea for an additional feature: The numbers in the columns could be links. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Clash between footnote numbering of posts on the same page

This answer is just an example with a footnote so you can see the problem described in the question. Click on the footnote link[1] in this answer and you will be taken to the footnote at the botto...

posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Clash between footnote numbering of posts on the same page [duplicate]

If a post uses a Markdown footnote, and then another post on the same page also uses a footnote (such as a question and one of its answers, or 2 answers to the same question), the footnote link goe...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Should inline SVG or SVG uploads be supported in posts?

Codidact posts support a safe subset of HTML. Currently the <svg> tag is not supported. SVG images can still be safely included using the <img> tag[1] (or a Markdown image link, which i...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Maintain sort order when returning to normal answer view

When viewing a specific answer, it has a message above it including a link to return to the normal view: If the answer sorting order is changed to "Active", the specific answer stays at the top ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Seeing which moderator marked my flag as helpful (which should be hidden)

Correct behaviour At the bottom of the right hand panel of the user profile page (or at the bottom of the page on mobile where there is no right hand panel), the number of flags that the user has ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Editor preview left outdated after adding content without the keyboard

Generally when making a change in the input text box for a post, the editor preview updates to reflect the change. However, there are two occasions when this is not the case, and the editor preview...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts?

By default all edits should show Every time an edit is made, the post or its parent should move to the top of the question list. This reduces the chance of an edit being missed by the community. ...

posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Indicate stale reactions based on user activity

Wary of trying to be too general Although I like the idea of this for making sure indications of interest don't last indefinitely on Codidact Proposals, trying to find a general use for expiring r...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by AdminBee‭

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Q&A The tag description in the tags list does not link to the specific tag page

On the Tags tab, clicking on a tag in the list follows a link to the specific tag page. However, this only works if you click on the tag itself. The tags in the list each have a snippet of their de...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Update tag descriptions to reflect new home of proposals

Here on Meta the tags "community-proposal" and "new-communities" both have descriptions referring to the Site Proposals category. Can these be updated to refer to (and possibly link to) the new Cod...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should details tags work in comments?

In a post a <details> tag can be used to hide information until a user chooses to click on it, useful for spoilers or puzzle solutions. For example, the following raw text: <details> ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Should details tags work in comments?

I can imagine the following uses for hidden <details> sections in comment threads. Some of these uses will apply to some types of Codidact community, and other uses will apply to other types....

posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Our site incubator concept needs a re-think

I don't know whether I like the following idea better or worse than the current approach with a tag for each proposed community, but I agree we could benefit from discussion of new ideas, so here's...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Minor typo fixes on Blog posts activate the activity indicator circle

When an edit is made to a Blog post, the new activity indicator circle appears on the Blog tab: This is useful when there is a new Blog post, but less useful when there is a minor typo fixed. W...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Indicate change in reputation in voting summary

In the Vote Summary tab of the user page, each of a users posts shows how many votes up and down: This shows voting, but does not make clear how this affects reputation. In this example, the fir...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Community sort order

As the list of communities gets longer, it becomes more difficult to find any particular one in the various places they are listed. Sorting Would it be helpful to have sorting buttons, similar to...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭