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Posts by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Text colour works in edit preview but not in saved post

The fix for "Although div tag is not allowed, it's rendered in the preview" has also fixed this inconsistent style problem. Entering the same raw text into the input text box now results in an edi...

posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Help page: call for improvement suggestions

At the top right of each page is a link to Help. If you want a specific help article to be edited or added, please raise that on your community specific Meta so that a moderator can make tho...

4 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A 500 error page for user:me when not signed in

My ideal solution would be to inform the user that search results for user:me require a signed in user in order to know who me refers to, and then show a sign in page that will automatically redire...

posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A No way to discard draft edit to user profile

When writing or editing a post, a draft is automatically saved and reloaded if you close the page and come back to it later. I find this very helpful (particularly when switching between devices). ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

Question bug user-profiles user-experience drafts
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Q&A Markdown in close reasons

Markdown does not appear to be processed in the reason given for closing a question. For example, there is a Markdown link in the following close reason, but it is rendered as plain text rather tha...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Vertical jump when switching between tabs on the user page

The first tab on the user page, "Profile", has the username above the row of tabs: All of the other tabs on the user page have the title below the row of tabs: This means that when sw...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question bug status-completed user-profiles user-experience
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Q&A Shortcut links from All Communities

I love the new "All Communities" section of the user profile page. I've already found it useful several times. I have an idea for an additional feature: The numbers in the columns could be links. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A We need to talk about Abilities

Considering both timeframe and last N events We could base awarding of an ability on both proportion of events in a timeframe, and proportion of events in the last N events. I'll use concrete numb...

posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Closed question time looks like local time but is not

Below a question, the time posted is displayed, and hovering over it shows an exact timestamp: Notice that the timestamp is followed by a "Z" to indicate that this time is in the timezone UT...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Can I use SVG in posts?

Do Codidact posts support SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for images and animations? I can't get either the image upload button or inline SVG to work. Is SVG not supported?

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 21d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Too subtle formatting of disabled pagination buttons

At the bottom of the Activity tab of my user profile page, there are buttons to move through the pagination of the results. There is a “Previous” button, several specific page number buttons, then ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

Question bug accessibility user-experience button pagination
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Q&A Empty notifications panel when you have been signed out

Sometimes, after having the site open for a while, it has been automatically signed out. This will not be apparent until you try to navigate and see the page in the signed out layout (no user avata...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Guidance when hovering over upvote and downvote buttons

When hovering over the upvote and downvote counts next to a post, the score of the post is displayed, which is helpful: However, the score is also displayed when hovering over the upvote and dow...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Can't edit a question just to add tags.

It appears that this problem has been fixed. See the related How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist? which has been marked "status-completed".

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Minor suggested edits to old posts

My own view is that even minor edits are valuable, even on old posts. I appreciate that there will sometimes be reason to reject such edits, but I would not personally take the age of a post into a...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question

Good idea, not just for closed questions I like the idea of hiding the sorting buttons when they serve no purpose. I see no reason to restrict this to closed questions. If the visibility of the so...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Would there ever be A / B testing?

ArtOfCode's answer covers true A/B testing, which involves a randomised experiment and the system to support it. However, the question sounds as if it is also considering the ability for individua...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

While that page is being edited, there's a typo that could be fixed at the same time: There are 6 Abilities you can earn on this site (not neccessarily in this order): Note that this is corre...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Comment flagging broken on mobile portrait mode

From a comment thread page, pressing "flag" on a comment results in a pop up panel with a text input and a "Flag" button. On mobile, in portrait mode, this pop up panel overlaps the left hand edge ...

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

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Q&A Issues with copying post source from revision history

I see the described behaviour in Firefox but not in Chromium. Operating System: Fedora 38 Firefox version: 116.0 Chromium version: 115.0.5790.102 Example of a Post History page where this b...

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

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Q&A Code block copy button in more places, such as help documents

I find the copy button on code blocks in posts very useful. Could this also be added to code blocks in other places such as help documents? For example, the Template for Proposal Posts would be mu...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Cannot view with no filter when a category has a default filter

This is the filter section above a post list: In a category where I have set a default filter, I can temporarily view the post list using a different filter by selecting it from the "Predefined ...

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

Question bug status-planned filters
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Q&A Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page

Related: Tracking progress towards the Edit ability The Activity tab of my user profile, filtered to Edits shows 20 helpful suggested edits, and 1 declined. The Edit Posts Ability page sho...

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

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Q&A Tag-only edits only sometimes have a tag diff

I noticed that the edit to the tags in this edit history does not have a tag diff section. It makes it appear that the second version of this post has no changes: For comparison, here is tag-onl...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted

This bug appears to be fixed, but it is not. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread. How it seems to someone who didn't post the origina...

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

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