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Posts by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Unclickable suggested edit button below post

After suggesting an edit to a post, it is displayed differently to indicate that the edit is pending. This difference is in 2 places. The top of the post shows a message in a box: Below the pos...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

Moderator only tags Another existing feature that might be relevant as part of a solution: some tags can only be added by a moderator, such as "status-completed". If "voltage" is created as a mode...

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

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Q&A TOC display problem after answer deletion

Expected behaviour for different users My expectation is the same as in the question when a user is unable to see deleted posts. Sometimes a user can see a deleted post (such as when the user is ...

posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance.

While ArtOfCode's answer explains that this is unlikely to be fixed in the near future, there is a workaround. If you decide that you need a character such as φ in the brief usage guidance that sho...

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

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Q&A Hover text on sorting buttons not available on mobile

The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list have title text which appears on hovering with a mouse, but this is not available on mobile devices. "Activity", "Age", and "Score" are r...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories?

With many different Codidact communities and more being proposed, along with other organisations that have their own instances of the QPixel software, it seems unlikely that any single one of these...

posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Suggest an edit without any changes is possible

This appears to be fixed. I just tried making an empty edit to this question and received an error message:

posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Use filters across devices

Misdiagnosed problem I was wrong about this. It turns out your personal filters are already saved across devices, but there is a problem stopping them from showing up. Workaround Adding a new fi...

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

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Q&A MathJax breaks in edit history

I noticed this in a post on Code Golf Codidact where MathJax is enabled. The raw text of the post can be seen by pressing "Edit" or "Suggest edit" below the post: When viewing the edit history,...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Post score in title text of vote counts does not update when voting

When adding or removing an upvote or downvote, the user interface is updated without reloading the page. This changes the upvote and downvote buttons to be the appropriate colour based on whether t...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A No visible response when searching on mobile

After searching from the search box at the top of each page, you are taken to a search results page. This has the search box with the current search term prepopulated, ready to modify and search ag...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Cannot search for net negative votes

Searching for votes:-8 does not give results with net votes -8. Instead it returns all posts, regardless of votes. Upvotes and downvotes break in exactly the same way for negative numbers, but for...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Searching for answers by tag

Searching for post_type:2 (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. Is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago 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 Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header

One option is to style the tabs as tabs rather than buttons, similar to the row above which shows the category tabs. The "Ask Question" button can then remain a button: I prefer this to the curr...

posted 12mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Tailored previews in search results to show the relevant parts of each post

In search results the title is shown followed by a preview of the post, consisting of the first few lines. I would find it more useful to see the section of the post that contains the search term,...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Make code field active on 2FA sign in page

When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: The "Code" field is not active (does not contain the text cursor) ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A No response when clicking on the title of a thread on a recently deleted post

When clicking on the thread title ("Welcome!" in this example) of a comment thread below a post: I see the following error in the Firefox developer window (click image for a larger version): ...

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

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Q&A Notification about a thread on a deleted post

What should be the behaviour when a user posts a reply to a comment in a thread on a post, and then deletes the post? For example, the post may be a question which requires editing before it will b...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A No datetime on hover at the bottom of a suggested edit

In the Suggested Edits list page, the time suggested shows as a duration since suggested, such as "2 days ago", but hovering the mouse cursor over it displays the exact datetime: However, in the...

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

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Q&A Show notice that a suggested edit cannot be reviewed without the Edit Posts ability

When viewing the Suggested Edits page, there is a notice for users that have not yet earned the Edit Posts ability: You can't approve or reject suggested edits because you haven't yet earned the...

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

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Q&A Show raw MathJax in suggested edit diffs and edit histories

Related: Post revisions are displayed without rendered Markdown but with rendered MathJax When reviewing a suggested edit, any MathJax is presented in its rendered form, making it difficult to s...

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

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Q&A Tracking progress towards the Edit ability

Related: Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Currently, the best place I can find to track my progress towards the Edit ability (30 approved suggested edits with at least 95% ap...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Large reputation on phones shrinks the community logo

As a user's reputation increases, it takes up more horizontal space on the header bar of each page. On desktop there is plenty of empty space so this makes little difference. However, on a phone sc...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Ability to sort individual user Posts page by Activity

There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. At the top it has sorting buttons: The sorting buttons at the top of the questions list on the front page has more sorting buttons: ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭