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Posts by trichoplax
Testing different approaches When considering what approach to take to awarding abilities, or what specific values to use for the thresholds, it might be worth drafting database queries for each a...
As pointed out in a comment on a post about comment flagging, currently comment flags only allow entering a free text message, not selecting an option such as spam or abusive. Please could we have...
Rewriting the Code Golf leaderboard script Code Golf Codidact has an automated leaderboard to show all the answers at a glance. In the absence of an API this currently scrapes the HTML to gather i...
Current functionality At present, text and images can be pasted into the Codidact post editor "Body" field separately, but not together. Each of these works in a specific way. Text Text is paste...
I would like to see the blue line removed from question pages, and only remain on the user page where it serves a purpose in separating the tab names from the tab content. On a question page it de...
Render MathJax faster Whether we decide to allow direct use of the <math> tag in posts or not, we should use MathML behind the scenes so that posts containing MathJax render quickly even on ...
When drafting or editing a post or comment, there is a character count at the bottom right of the text input field, showing the current number of characters and one of the character limits (the min...
When an unsupported HTML tag is used in a post, a message is displayed to warn about this: However, if an unsupported tag is the first item in the post, the message is not displayed:
Only the list page previews need fixing I have explained the underlying causes in another answer. This answer proposes a general solution for all communities. There will rarely be a problem in a ...
Minor visual bug (no effect on usage). When uploading an image during editing or creating a post, the page is greyed out while the "Image upload" modal is showing (as intended). However, 2 of the ...
After making an edit to an answer (in this case an answer of my own on Collab) I pressed Edit to make a further edit and the Edit Comment field was populated with the comment of my immediately prev...
In addition to bare URLs being clickable, I would also find it useful to have human readable links in edit comments. For example: Markdown links: [link text](https://example.com "hover text") g...
A user's profile page shows their top 15 posts, with a button to see all. This page showing all of a user's posts is just like the questions list or search results, with pagination if there are too...
On the user profile page there is a horizontal blue line across the top of the page that groups the tabs, with the currently showing tab highlighted in that same blue. On some of the tabs this show...
When searching for a user, from the search box at the top of the users page, if there are no results then nothing is displayed. This can make it unclear whether the search has finished with no resu...
Another option is to not use button styling in the bar at all. The "Ask Question" button can become another tab along with "Posts", "Tags", and "Edits": This is my personal preference as it simp...
At the top of the user page there is a row of tabs, such as "Profile", "Activity", and "Vote Summary". These are followed by a horizontal blue line which separates them from the content of each tab...
I posted this feature request because I'd like to see the option to sort by Age, for those occasions where I'd find it useful or interesting. I definitely do not want to change the default sorting...
I prefer no border for general images I would not want every image to be surrounded by a border. Images are added for many reasons, and in many cases a border would not be wanted. For example, a b...
I'm curious about the list of "Hot Posts" shown in the right hand panel of Codidact pages. So here are some completely unimportant questions that I'm intrigued to know more about: How is the lis...
Note: This is not related to the recent code release - I noticed this before that. The panels that appear when clicking on the Notifications or Communities buttons at the top right of the page a...
On a specific question page, the t shortcut brings up a list of options for the question or one of its answers (depending on which is currently selected): On the questions list page, the t short...
Just to let you know: The new d keyboard shortcut mentioned in Recent feature changes to the Codidact software doesn't appear to be present yet. Keyboard shortcut d opens the dashboard Press...
I like the "Random from Category" and "Specific post" ad templates. I've recently been a "selfish sharer" and used the "Specific post" template to share one of my own questions. This made me wonde...
I recently changed my username on a site where I used to post coding challenges years ago, to make it clearer that I no longer post there (as I still occasionally receive comments that I may not se...
