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Posts by trichoplax‭

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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 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y 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 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 6mo 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 3y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Mismatch between search guidance, search help page, and search behaviour for votes and score

There is some inconsistency between the guidance and the behaviour when searching by votes or by score. Searching by votes In-page search guidance votes:4 votes with 4+ votes Search help pa...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Proposal to ease tag maintenance

This is perhaps a longer term solution, with slightly broader scope than the question, but I'm mentioning it for consideration since the question made me think of it. It still makes sense to implem...

posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A I can mark my own answer as "Works for me"

The "Works for me" reaction can be added to any answer, even if the reacting user is the author of the answer. For example, here is what an answer looks like if I post the answer and react to it m...

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

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Q&A Footnotes with the same number in different posts on the same page

If 2 or more posts on a page contain footnotes with the same number, they all link to the footnote that appears earliest on the page. For example, the question How should a Codidact public API wor...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Native sorting button blocks other sorting orders

The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list include "Activity", "Age", and "Score", which are all orders into which to sort the posts. However, for sites with imported content they als...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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: ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Proposal descriptions show "Suggest edit" instead of "Edit"

In the Descriptions category of the Codidact Proposals community, anyone can edit any proposal description. This is in contrast to other categories where suggested edits require approval before bei...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 10mo 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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 7mo 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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo 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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Blocked from posting to Collab by script tag inside code block

I am currently unable to post to Codidact Collab. When pressing "Save Post to Q&A" I am taken to the following page: The small print at the bottom says: Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b7c1ee0bdc8776...

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

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Q&A Miscellaneous Flag modal problems

Flagging an answer After pressing "Flag" under an answer there are 3 radio buttons to choose from: Flagging questions and answers Some changes would benefit both types of post. Changes specifi...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Question score on hover in question lists

When viewing an individual question, the score can be seen by hovering over the voting buttons or the upvote and downvote counts: In the question list page, it might be expected that the score c...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Unique favicons for each site

In support of unique favicons A common logo to bring the communities together In response to another answer, which says: it has a very important disadvantage of diluting the platform image (th...

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

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Q&A New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered by question deletion

Related: Make "last activity" notices on question lists more useful (GitHub) Can "last activity" provide more context on what was that happened? (Meta) Posts list shows luap42 instead of actua...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Reputation change indicator on dashboard

On the dashboard there are indicators for each Category of each community, that appear when there is new activity in that Category: Would it be helpful to also show the reputation for each com...

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

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Q&A Where do meta questions about the Codidact Collab site belong?

Should I ask questions about the Codidact Collab site here on Codidact Meta, or over on the Collab site itself? I notice that Collab doesn't have its own Meta section, unlike most Codidact communit...

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

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Q&A Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty

For a long time I had no content in my user profile, then today I added something to see how it would look. I then changed my mind and decided to go back to having nothing. However, there is a mini...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A Ability to search for user:me

Currently, we can search for posts by a particular user by including user:unique_user_number, where the unique user number can be found from the user's profile URL. Would you find it useful to be ...

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