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Posts by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Preview of edits so reviewers can see what has changed

When looking at a pending edit on the suggested edits page, only the markdown shows. There is no preview of how this will be rendered. This presents two problems: Any subtle error introduced by...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once?

If edits are made to a large number of posts in a short period, they will push everything else off the front page, taking visibility away from recent questions and answers. They will also take visi...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A Can you post a question just to answer it yourself?

From How to ask a great question in the help section: If you put your question title into a search engine, can you find the answer to your question in the first three results? If so, perhaps con...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Markdown table alignment only renders correctly in preview

Codidact posts support Markdown tables. For example, the following raw text: Column 1 | Column 2 -------- | -------- Data A | Data B Data C | Data D renders as: Column 1 Column ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question bug status-completed markdown editor-preview tables
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Q&A Tag search breaks if a space is added

In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) sh...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Supporting more space efficient image and video file formats

Currently image uploads are supported for files of type PNG, JPEG (.jpeg or .jpg), and GIF. In another question I uploaded a video of my screen to illustrate the problem being raised there. This wa...

0 answers  ·  posted 28d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 28d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Lack of a link to chat on Outdoors and Proposals

Most Codidact communities have a link to chat (currently Discord) in the right hand panel under "Codidact": However, 2 communities do not have the link to chat: These communities are:...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Separate upvotes and downvotes in the vote summary daily totals

In the vote summary page the votes received for each day are listed (both upvotes and downvotes), and there is also a total next to the date. This allows seeing at a glance how many votes were rece...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Suggested edit hidden from mods and admins for deleted posts

If a suggested edit is made on a question that has been deleted, the suggested edit is created successfully but does not show in the suggested edits list, even to users with the Curate ability (who...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Authors and curators cannot find deleted posts

When searching, deleted posts are excluded from the results for most users. The exception is that moderators and admins see deleted posts in search results. This is as expected, as moderators and a...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A User search only finds names which begin with the search term

The search field at the top of the users page appears to only search from the beginning of a username. For example, trying to find my username, "trichoplax", succeeds only for prefixes of the name...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 19d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A The posts list for a tag suggests each post has only that tag

Clicking on a tag takes you to a page showing the details of the tag, followed by a list of posts bearing that tag. However, each of these posts is shown with only that tag. All other tags on each ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Explanations for the current behaviour Rendered text is not small after saving The <small> tag is not one of the currently supported HTML tags. Supported tags and attributes are discussed i...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 complete...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Save title and tags in draft [duplicate]

I was delighted to find that a post I started writing on my phone automatically had a draft saved so I could continue writing it on my computer when I got home. However, I noticed that only the bod...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Automatically added redundant markdown when editing

After making an edit that only adds tags, some redundant markdown is added to the beginning of the body of the post. This does not show up in the rendered post but it gives an inaccurate edit histo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Clarify "Remember me"

When signing in there is a checkbox labelled "Remember me". There is no supporting information to indicate what this checkbox is for. Without it, a user may not know which of the following it means...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Potentially misleading plus symbol with "follow new" link

I like the new "follow new" feature that allows being notified of any new comment threads on a post. However, I think that using a plus symbol (+) next to it could be confusing, as this is often as...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Summary per day in the Vote Summary profile page

When viewing a user's Vote Summary, days that are not expanded give no indication of how many votes occurred each day: Would it be useful to have a plus and minus total in the date bar that stil...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Meaningful hovertext for voting area

I notice that a number is displayed as the hovertext / tooltip when hovering over the voting buttons and current score of a post. Would it be helpful for the hovertext to include a brief descriptio...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Bulleted lists don't work on IOS Firefox and MacOS Safari

Here is what your answer looks like on my machine: You can see that the bullet points are rendered correctly, so it sounds like it is the rendering of bullet points on your machine that is probl...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Missing translation for English for suggested edits rate limit

I'm guessing that the following message means that I have been rate limited for suggested edits, but this error is showing instead of the intended message: I received this after pressing save on...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Cannot remove Discord username from user profile once added

After editing my user profile to add a Discord username as part of testing how it works, I am unable to remove the username. Deleting the username and pressing save results in an apparently success...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should the Discord guidance be updated as discriminators are being removed?

From Discord's announcement: In addition, your previous username and discriminator will continue to work as an alias after the conversion process is done, so old friends who don’t know your new ...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Support subjective scoring

This is an interesting proposal. Although I think it would be detrimental in its current form, I'd like to emphasise that I would like to see more discussion of potential modifications to the way t...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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