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Posts by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve

The requirements for earning the Edit Posts ability which would allow reviewing suggested edits can be found in each community's help section. For example, the Physics Edit Posts Ability page: H...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve

I agree that seeing the indicator circle when unable to review edits is not useful. I've raised an issue on GitHub.

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Inconsistent use of "abilities" and "privileges"

The Your abilities page looks something like this (depending on your current abilities): To a moderator looking to grant or suspend abilities, there is a mod-only page called "Privileges", which...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Inconsistent use of "undelete" and "restore"

When a post has been deleted, it shows a notice explaining its situation: This notice says: Users with the Curate privilege may vote to undelete (emphasis mine) However, the button below ...

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

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

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Q&A Inconsistent badge alignment on Vote Summary tab of user profile

On the Vote Summary tab of the user profile page, the post type and category show as badges on the same line as the question title and aligned to the right. However, if the question title is too lo...

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

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Q&A License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors

For 2 communities (Writing and Outdoors) the License drop down list when making a new post shows an option of CC BY-SA 3.0: For all of the other Codidact communities this option is not present. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Does "site" mean "community" or "Codidact" on License field?

Above the drop down list for license when making a new post, it mentions "site default". As people use the word "site" to mean different things, this could be ambiguous, particularly for a new user...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by sau226‭

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Q&A Incorrect description for CC BY-SA 3.0 in license drop down list [duplicate]

This will become irrelevant if License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors results in CC BY-SA 3.0 no longer being available For those communities where it is present, CC BY-SA 3...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Very narrow blank option in Default license drop down list

The drop down list of options for "Default license" in the "Community Preferences" section of the "Preferences" tab on the user profile page does not appear to have the option of returning to blank...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Comment threads with zero comments

I believe that when the last comment in a comment thread is deleted, the thread is also automatically deleted. However, there are some threads that still exist despite having all their comments del...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Duplicate Mobile Sign In button in user profile shows on mobile

When viewing my own user profile (not anyone else's) there is a button below the profile content called "Mobile Sign In": This does the same as the Mobile Sign In button in the page header: I...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tall profile content (image or text) causes scroll bar only on desktop

I recently added an image to my user profile as an experiment. In the edit preview this showed in full, but after saving it shows on my profile with a vertical scroll bar and the bottom section of ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Diagram errors in "Scoring" help article

The help page explaining the post scoring method has some diagrams at the end, but they are somewhat confusing. Axis mislabelling The following chart has a horizontal axis labelled "N", which is ...

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

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Q&A Mismatch between blue notification circle and notification panel

When I read the target of a notification in another tab, and then switch to a tab that still has the notification circle showing, opening the notification panel shows the notification as read, but ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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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 Broken edit diffs on narrow mobile screens

When viewing a post edit diff on mobile the side by side format for before and after makes each side very narrow in portrait mode. Text wrapping appears to only happen between words, leaving longer...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Highlight [status-completed] posts in Hot Posts for Meta

In the Hot Posts panel on Codidact Meta, or in the Meta Category of a specific community, some of the posts may be bug reports or feature requests. It is not clear from the Hot Posts panel whether ...

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

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Q&A Sign In vs. Sign Up

Here are screenshots of what the two pages currently look like on desktop: Sign up Sign in For Sign up, there is a green box suggesting using your existing details from another Codidact site...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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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 Unique favicon per community [duplicate]

If pages for several different Codidact communities are open in different browser tabs, they all show the Codidact logo as their favicon: It would be easier to see at a glance which community is...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Show question title before community name in browser tab

The title for a specific question page (displayed in the browser tab) shows the community name followed by the question title: This means that only the first word or two of the question title ar...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Meaningful tab title for Ask and Edit pages

The title for a page (that appears in the browser tab) shows the community name (such as "Codidact Meta"), followed by the question title for a question page. This can be helpful for a user who has...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Logo shrinks from blue notification circle

Related bug (not sure if solution will be related): Logo becomes tiny in mobile landscape mode and narrow desktop windows On mobile, the community logo can shrink when a blue notification c...

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

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Q&A The ability to cancel my own suggested edit

Related: A way to edit my suggested edits If I suggest an edit to a post and then change my mind, there is no way for me to retract my suggestion. The top of the post I suggested an edit on...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭