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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 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 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question bug status-completed categories activity category-post-list
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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 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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 4y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by deleted user

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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 2y ago by Taeir‭

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

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Q&A Copy button for comment code blocks

Code blocks in posts have a "Copy" button at the top right, allowing copying all of the code in the block with a click (or a tap on a touchscreen device). I find this very useful, both because it s...

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

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Q&A Misplaced user card below answer

In an answer on Software Development there is a layout inconsistency in the metadata below the answer. Usually the user card is to the right of the date posted, licence, and date edited. However, i...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Deleted post hidden from everyone in the question list

When a user deletes a question they posted, it shows with a notice which includes the following wording: The author of this post decided to delete it. It can only be seen by users with the Curat...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can I use SVG in posts?

SVG is only supported in an img tag SVG is only supported inside an HTML <img> tag, or a Markdown image link (which is rendered as an <img> tag behind the scenes). The image upload bu...

posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Clarity for a user who has become signed out during editing

Pressing “Save Post” during editing a post fails if you have become signed out. However, there is no indication that you have been signed out, the button just does not respond, and then becomes dis...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Indicator of how many posts a user's profile shows and the total

On the user profile page there are some posts showing, with a link to “See all”. After clicking See all, the total number of posts is shown at the top. Would it be useful to have a nu...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Copy Link pop up can be completely off screen

The “Copy Link” button below each post has been changed so that it now has a pop up offering either a raw link or a Markdown link: This always appears just below the button, even when the le...

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

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Q&A Create thread button is enabled when the comment field is empty

Try to create a new comment thread under a post by adding a title but no comment. The “Create thread” button is active, but clicking on it does not work because a comment is required. On desktop a ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How should we phase out the Site Proposals category?

Currently the old Site Proposals category points to the new Proposals community, presumably as a temporary measure until people get used to the new community. This is not ideal, as described in the...

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

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Q&A How should a Codidact public API work?

I'd like to make charts of user and community stats These could involve a large amount of data as the site grows, so should probably be links to a location that generates them once a day and/or ca...

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

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Q&A Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts?

The cause of the lost line spacing The raw text of your post is converted to HTML ready to be displayed by your web browser. The text is split into paragraphs based on the presence of blank lines,...

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

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Q&A Let's not allow animated avatars.

I was in the middle of drafting a very similar Meta question when I noticed this one had just been posted. I will instead post my thoughts here as an answer, to prompt further discussion. I see the...

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

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Q&A Confusing row highlighting on abilities page

On the Abilities page clicking on the name of an ability takes you to the specific ability page. However, clicking on the row of the table anywhere other than the name of the ability just highlight...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Attempting to restore an answer deleted by a moderator gives no visible feedback

After a moderator has deleted an answer, it looks like this to the poster of the answer: If the poster of the answer clicks on "Restore", the action is prevented, and a message is shown at the t...

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

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Q&A Adjustable size comment text area

The character limit for a comment is 1000, but the text area in which it is typed or edited is much smaller than this. Most comments are short, but some comments can have reason to be longer, and ...

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

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