Welcome to Codidact Meta!
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.
Activity for Julius H.
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question | — |
Discourse software as helpful example I just felt like saying that the Discourse forum software is quite good quality, and it also has some interesting examples of new forum features not commonly seen elsewhere. For example, on the OpenAI users forum, built on Discourse, there is a feature where as you scroll downwards, an animated displ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Adopt a notifications model supporting toggleable previews One way I think Codidact could have a big leg up on Stack Exchange would be a more robust notifications system, borrowing from the pre-established template of some other software. For example, on iOS, there are a few minimal yet beneficial ways to customize how you receive notifications, from all ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Categorical or criterion-based voting I am starting to strongly lean towards that votes should pretty much always come with explanations. I wonder if it is not such a radical change in system design to replace the universal or generic upvote/downvote with a category-based reaction system. In its simplest iteration, it could focus on a sm... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Roadmap or checklist for successfully launching new site? I’m motivated to see a Philosophy site go live. Here is a post detailing how sites are actually established, from three years ago. I’m wondering if that answer can be updated to be more actionable, clear-cut, criteria-oriented, even quantifiable. For example, “if a site has X questions with an ave... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Some polemics regarding genAIcontent I wish to open a theoretical conversation on some aspects of the site policies regarding AI. I do this purely out of an inherent interest in deep, rigorous, clear, and self-consistent argumentation, for the benefit of all, and not out of an ulterior motive to tip the balance of Codidact’s moderation ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Links to Codidact posts don’t auto-render with post title If I insert a URL to a Codidact post, I would like it to display the title of the post as inline text, hyperlinked to the post, without me manually doing that. For example: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290921 vs. Could a philosophical zombie verify that it is a philosophical zombie? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Proposals site is not listed on Codidact home page This site: https://proposals.codidact.com/ is not listed here: https://codidact.com/ and I think it should be. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What web dev tools were used in the making Ruby on Rails. The code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel I do not know what cloud provider it is deployed on. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
How are site policies decided on Codidact? This Help page lists some site policies. screenshot of site policy webpage What governance system is in place to come to decisions about what the site policies are? screenshot of site organization structure - individuals, roles, and teams This picture displays an organisation structure. ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
What is Codidact's policy regarding artificial intelligence-generated content? Is AI content banned, or allowed if attributed to an AI? Are there further contextual rules regarding AI, for example, how much of a post may consist of AI-composed content? Will the justificational principles behind these rules be available to read somewhere? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Threaded comments are good for discussion but there’s no incentive to clean them up I personally am open to the idea of treating comments here exactly as we treat posts. Since they can be quite long, we should be able to vote, suggest edits, etc, as a way of facilitating that Codidact be self-moderating and self-optimizing; to encourage people to edit and improve comments. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Alternatives to the news feed taken as a default; the “attention economy” It is common nowadays for social technology to include a “feed” of some kind, most usually as the landing page upon logging in. One can without difficulty produce some conventional arguments in favor of this design choice: “It increases user engagement”, “It increases ‘visibility’” (the awareness tha... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself? I haven’t seen anyone mention another reason to answer your own questions. I wish I knew a more scientific or technical term for it, but it’s commonly called the Rubber Duck principle, and I utterly swear by it. The idea that engaging in dialogue with interlocutors is profoundly beneficial to ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Could we adopt the domain “.cd”? How would people feel about a network-wide convention of abbreviated URLs having the form, `https://.cd`? For example, a shortened URL for a philosophy site would be `https://philosophy.cd`, along with the full URL of `https://philosophy.codidact.com`. (Or, maybe even shorter, `https://phil.cd`, o... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Modular or “microservices” architecture I am interested in the idea that an extremely modular software architecture for Codidact could have the kind of general, self-propagating benefits that things like being free open-source have. To me, it increases the openness of the platform, for customizable use by users, and thus, also for contribu... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
What incentives are there currently to edit and moderate? Should there be more? On Stack Exchange, I spent a significant portion of my time on the site editing posts, because the idea of an SE site as a repository of useful reference information has long appealed to me. Being new to Codidact, I am currently taking it all in and trying to observe to what extent one feels natur... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Extremely high standards for code of conduct? This is just a hypothetical idea I’d like to share. I sometimes feel the bar has been set very low in how people conduct themselves on forums, since we are used to places like Reddit, and compared to that, Stack Exchange can seem very structured and regulated. That said, as a user of SE, I often d... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Would there ever be A / B testing? Would there ever be a scenario where an experimental feature is tried out with a smaller cohort of users in order to observe the resulting dynamics and compare it to the alternative? I mean more than just a feature testing playground (https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288826/288833). I mean, in c... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Vote counts as ratios? This is not meant to be a committed advocating or request of the following, but rather a conversation to analyze the possibilities and potential benefits and drawbacks. What if the total score for a post was bounded in a small interval - either (-1,1), or possibly (0, 1) (or even [0, 1]). There... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Library of Congress classification: class AND subject tags (including sub-tags) The library of Congress classification system gives items both a single class, and multiple subject tags. This system has some significant benefits. Also, their subject tag system has sub-tags - for example, “Kant — Biography”, or “Technology — China”. (Note: one easy way to enable giving each... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
More inherently built-in chatting? It could be cool to have more accessible chatting for all posts. What if there were a sidebar on every post where there was always a live chat? Unlike SE, you never need to specifically create and open a chat room. Every post has a side chat bar. This could give people more communication options. ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
A refactoring convenience function. Here is a redraft and elaboration of what this post is about, partially in response to some comments I've received. This post may be about a few different things at once, and may need to be refactored. (In my opinion, this makes it interesting as a question, since the post acts as a demonstration ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Make searching posts slightly more easy I find the search function slightly too hard to find. I mean, it’s just in the menu, but intuitively, I feel like it should be a little more accessible, immediately visible. Also, we would benefit from seeing suggested similar posts, as we draft our posts. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Thoughts on downvotes? Could you be able to hide vote counts in general? Seeing as Codidact is sort of an opportunity to do things a little differently than Stack Exchange, I was wondering how people feel in general about certain things about Stack Exchange, which we might as a community be able to change, if we want it. How do people feel about downvotes? I mean, I ac... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |