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Posts by Julius H.‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&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 utter...

posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A More inherently built-in chatting? [duplicate]

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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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 t...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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.

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How are site policies decided on Codidact?

This Help page lists some site policies. What governance system is in place to come to decisions about what the site policies are? This picture displays an organisation structure. It does not...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Links to Codidact posts don’t auto-render with post title [duplicate]

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.codid...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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.

posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A 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 refact...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A 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 - f...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A Vote counts as ratios? [duplicate]

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 fav...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A 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,...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A Could we adopt the domain “.cd”?

How would people feel about a network-wide convention of abbreviated URLs having the form, https://<topic>.cd? For example, a shortened URL for a philosophy site would be https://philosophy....

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A 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 justificatio...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Extremely high standards for code of conduct? [closed]

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Threaded comments are good for discussion but there’s no incentive to clean them up [closed]

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 Codi...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed 9mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Thoughts on downvotes? Could you be able to hide vote counts in general? [duplicate]

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 mi...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A 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 m...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Discourse software as helpful example [closed]

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 Ope...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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