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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by Trilarion‭

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Q&A What are the bus factors of Codidact?

The purpose of this post is to draw attention to possibly low bus factors and to maybe lead to a more failsafe organization structure by just asking for information. What are the bus factors for t...

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

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Q&A What information should be displayed on a network profile?

I want to design a network profile (and then possibly implement it). There was already discussion about that in Community dropdown and profile information, Understanding how posts were possibly rec...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Q&A Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I noticed that questions exist on this network and are accessible that are unlikely to ever be very helpful, for example because they were marked as completely off-topic. Examples Are internati...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Allow posting without logging in at least in some communities

Allowing anonymous posting because one is too lazy to sign in or doesn't want to be kept signed in (as is the case here) when already signed up is not a good idea in my opinion, because all the dow...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is the Codidact community the same as Stack Overflow?

Summary: It's different, but maybe not that different and whether it's better or worse - only the future will be able to tell. For information about Codidact see the help center and the Codidact b...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Does Codidact render MathJAX more slowly than StackExchange?

As Derek Elkins says, MathJax is rendered client-side both here and on StackExchanges. That means that Internet connection speed as well as server latency only influence how long it takes until th...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Closing Articles

Closing of a question typically does not only prohibit the addition of further answers but also signals to the content creator and future visitors that something is seriously wrong with the content...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Unique favicons for each site

What about as a compromise using the book as favicon but colored in the color of the corresponding sub domain?

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Donation account cannot currently make live charges, transaction has not been processed

According to this comment there is an issue with invalid birth dates stored with the Stripe service that cannot be resolved easily. It's known and there is ongoing communication to try to fix that ...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Donation account cannot currently make live charges, transaction has not been processed

Wanted to make a donation via the donate button but upon click on "Pay" an error message occured: "Your account cannot make live charges. If you are the site owner, please activate your account at ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Request for a Member Story feature which helps to highlight a Codidact member's topic expertise

The idea of the developer story on StackOverflow was to present yourself to potential employers. (For further reading see Introducing the Developer Story or Developer story: first impression where ...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A If a user is not able to directly edit the post, allow the edit to be suggested

This feature request was marked as declined, but in a comment, a preferred alternative was given, which was: If you want to add mod-only (red) tags, better flag the post.

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is gaining rep based on SE content ok?

Is it a problem if specific users harvest highly-voted questions on SE, then self answer, to farm a huge amount of rep? And if so, what can we do to prevent it? What you mean is that people ba...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Where should we discuss about unhelpful tags?

Tag usage and existence seems to be a meta issue, so discussing them on Meta seems like the natural place. If you can combine some of these discussions in a single question and find common patterns...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to grow all of our communities?

Here maybe some things that others may have forgotten or may not have emphasized as such: Continue supporting the software development I'm really surprised how well developed and rich of features...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is there a Codidact community fitting for this question (or one emerging)?

If I understand Scientific speculation correctly, it's for extrapolating current science for some possible future developments, but in this potential question you want to get a) evidence (difficult...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How many automatically created users that were never active are there still and what to do about them?

For some communities content from other places has been imported in the past and user profiles have been created, partly to allow users to quickly claim this identity if desired. However, these use...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Do SE users have the right to have their SE posts removed from Codidact? If so, how?

My understanding is that the Creative Commons license gives Codidact the right to repost content from Stack Exchange as long as it credits the originals Yes, the Creative Commons licensed know...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Proposal: filters for post lists

Filters also in search Filters and search are strongly related. As you say, the filter feature is something like a subset of search, only without the ability to input free text and possibly some o...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is it possible to merge Power Users and Linux Systems? Would Codidact benefit from it?

The surveys Q&As have been live for a week and while the number of answers and votes is relatively low to say much with statistical certainty it seems as if Powerusers wouldn't have much of a p...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to deal with reactor if the reactor is no more or he thinks the post is still bad?

All the feedback that we give like votes, reactions or comments ages, i.e. its relevance/significance declines over time because circumstances change (what worked in the past might now not work any...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Should the active category name not be shown twice on the categories header?

One thing one realizes quickly when for example visiting meta.codidact.com is that it's a site about Q&A. The reason is that for example it is written twice: But is this duplication really n...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Should we remove closed questions from the question list?

No, we should not completely remove them from the question list, making them effectively private or moving them to a dedicated category. While the purpose of these actions seems to be to give thes...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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