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Posts by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Vote summary refers to "you" even for another's profile

In the votes summary page of my profile it says: A daily summary of votes you have received for your posts. This is an accurate description of my vote summary page. However, if I look at ...

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

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Q&A How should a Codidact public API work?

I'd like to host contests that read code directly from answers Here's what I'd like to see in an API to allow me to host coding contests on Code Golf Codidact. Essential This is the only feature...

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

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Q&A How does "@username" work in comment threads?

In a comment thread, I can notify someone by including "@username". I also get notified of replies, even if they do not include my username in this way. What determines who is notified of a comment...

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

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

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Q&A Redundant "Posts" heading on every community in the dashboard

There is a dashboard available from the top right of the screen: This shows the categories for each Codidact community, along with an indicator for any categories that have new activity: Howe...

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

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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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 12mo 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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 12mo 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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y 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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y 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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y 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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Codidact Collab - should it be listed?

Personally, I am not currently looking to learn Ruby and contribute to QPixel, but I am interested in occasionally browsing Codidact Collab to see what's happening. I only discovered it through a ...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 26d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A False positive for 30,000 character limit

I tried to edit a post, but I received the following message saying it is over 30,000 characters. I double checked in a text editor that the number of characters is 27,835 (as shown in the Codidact...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A Suggestions for the user profile right pane

I have a few suggestions of how the pane on the right hand side of the user Profile page might be improved. I'd like your thoughts on which changes would be useful. Wording changes The 2 images b...

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

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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 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A Mismatch between tags list and number of posts for a given tag

Sometimes the number of posts indicated in the tags list does not match the number of posts displayed for that tag. This appears to be due to the inclusion of deleted posts in the displayed number....

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What incentives are there currently to edit and moderate? Should there be more?

Intrinsic & extrinsic motivation, and perverse incentives It is clear that your intentions are good, but the outcomes may not be. Intrinsic or extrinsic? People's motivation for making edits...

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

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