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Why discord and not IRC? Seems like the main option for real time chat related to Codidact is Discord. Were there any other alternatives considered? Why was Discord chosen? There are older, more established options for real time chat like IRC. In my experience, a lot of people object to Discord on principle. I believe ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Introduce a spam reaction? I don't think it should be called spam. Spam, in the strict sense, is large-volume, unwanted commercial advertisement. For example, if I go to every question tagged Python and reply "Click here to get 10% off my Python course" that would be proper spam. If I go to one question asking about the fastes... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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What mentoring is available for qpixel development? Codidact uses the open source Qpixel, which is also maintained by CD admins. Sometimes it is mentioned in passing that the devs are open to and interested in help with developing this codebase. I'm sure some contributors are resourceful enough as to simply skim the source and figure out everything... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Allow completely pseudonymous user accounts Yes, please! I think this is a great idea. Generally, I think requiring email verification is dumb. For this site it's doubly so. You did a great job enumerating all the reasons and I agree with them all. The biggest one is removing barrier to entry. Arguably the biggest problem of this site r... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? When I read through https://codidact.org/ I get the impression that the focus is on helping people get their questions answered. There are obviously other benefits, like providing a platform for people who want to share their knowledge, but the message that stands out to me most is: >This is a pla... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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Can we streamline the process for closed bad questions? This is related to my other question, https://software.codidact.com/posts/291064. In that I argued we shouldn't close vague or confused questions, so that other people can post an answer if they want. The current process is that if someone closes the question, you can't answer at all. You could te... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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Add new global flag reason: AI Can you please add a flag reason for "AI/LLM content"? I occasionally see people try to make some posts where they clearly just plug the question into ChatGPT and copy/pasted the response into the answer. Worse, they didn't bother reading the answer, or they would have edited out the pointless fil... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: How to grow all of our communities? Make Codidact a helpful place. The most basic reason why people use a QA site is because they want help. Specifically, they have a question and want it answered quickly and usefully. "Quickly" can be very dependent on the exact case, but take a classic example: You are trying to write some code... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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What is the appropriate tone for feedback on questions and answers? When giving feedback (comments, edits, reactions) what is the appropriate tone? In other words, how should you phrase your feedback? Should you assume knowledge of all site rules? Should you assume knowledge of only "main" site rules but not all? How friendly should you be? Is it okay to s... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts? I think the basic question is: >Would future readers of the question want to see it? The main way to use a Q&A site is not to ask or answer questions, but to view existing posts. A post may have 1 person asking, and 5-10 answering, but it could easily have thousands of people reading it in the ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Notification on edits to voted post When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification? Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You might feel like you'd rather not upvote it anymore, but who has time for constantly checking every questi... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Where is "user last seen"? How can I tell when a user last logged in? When I go to their profile's "Activity" tab, it shows me only activity on that site. I don't want to cycle through every site one by one. The global doesn't have to be precise. I'm not trying to stalk anyone. Sometimes I see an old question and want to... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact? This is not an answer, but more detail about why it confuses me. I left it out of the question to keep it succinct. You can read this as an answer to the effect of "I have searched for a meaning/definition and failed to find one". I know I hate my house or my desk being cluttered. I am not wealthy... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact? It's common to hear comments about QA sites being "cluttered", "clogged", "spammed" etc. with types of questions that the commenter doesn't want. What does this actually mean? Is there a definition of "clutter"? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? My answers would be that: It's okay to ask here even if the answer is readily available elsewhere There is no minimum level of research, beyond ensuring it's clear what's being asked It is not bad to use the community as a resource, that is what the community exists for Of course this is j... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? It is generally considered good practice to try and do your own research to find the answer to a question before you post it. There are some questions where the asker is just not capable of finding the answer on their own, no matter how much research they do on their own. As a contrived example, l... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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Outline of what makes a high quality question For a QA site to be good, it's important to have high-quality questions. The community is a great resource for guiding askers with the technical tools that CD provides. However, it is helpful for the community to have a mature understanding of what actually makes a good question. I say "mature und... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow We are a late starter QA site, so we are disadvantaged vs. competitors like Stack Overflow. Namely, a lot of basic questions are already asked and answered there, and people are less likely to organically re-ask them here. For us to accumulate such basic/well-known questions and answers will take a v... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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What do we do with suspected AI users? I have noticed a user that I suspect may be posting AI generated content. What should I do in such a situation? I don't want to go into exactly why I think it's an AI. Suffice to say, I work on LLM related tools like AutoGPT so I have some familiarity with what sort of content they output. Depe... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Assessing the 5 tag limit The tag limit is a trade off. If you allow many tags, you have more freedom when tagging, but also you must work harder to clean up unnecessary tags from people who don't know better. That last one assumes too many tags is a problem. Steam, for example, has no limits on tags for a game, and functions... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Notifications sometimes stay unread after clicking I noticed that sometimes when I click notifications, they keep reappearing after I refresh. If I refresh several times, and click several times, eventually it "sticks" and they become read. I don't think it makes a difference to open in current tab vs. new tab. I'm not sure about exact steps to repro... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools? I'd look to use my own tools for browsing Codidact. Examples include: Summarize activity for a proposal I'm interested in, similar to what's described in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289288/289291#answer-289291 Summarize latest posts in a way that the site UI doesn't yet support, such as col... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: A way to prohibit creating certain tags. I don't see anything wrong with a way to ban tags, other than it would require more coding from CD devs. Nothing wrong with that - you need to break some eggs if you want an omelette. However, maybe it's actually not necessary? I've seen SO do a thing where they create the over-general tag, and th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Indicate stale reactions based on user activity Reactions are currently used on CD to: Confirm an answer worked (similar to accepting an answer on SO) Show that an answer is dangerous Indicate interest in participating in a proposed CD site Some of these have enduring meaning. For example, if `rm -rf ` was dangerous 50 years ago, it is ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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New and interesting question feeds without email It appears that Codidact has notification streams for new questions and interesting questions, but currently these are over email. Can you add a search filter, global page, RSS feed or some other way of consuming these streams, without using email? I dislike using email as a notification channe... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Add a global search page Can we add a global search page to Codidact? This would simply apply the search query site-wide. This feature is useful when you're not sure which section has the question you want. Yes, you can use a search engine with a `site:` parameter, but that does not allow applying search filters becaus... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Creating tags is much easier than adding description It is probably not controversial to say that if you're creating a tag, you should add a description for it. Otherwise, how will anyone else know what you intended the tag to be used for? Unfortunately, this is a challenge right now on Codidact. Creating tags is a very easy ability. I'm not sure... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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"Proposals" does not show up in the bottom navbar Seems like every Codidact section appears as a link in the footer, so I was expecting the new https://proposals.codidact.com/ to appear there as well. However, it looks like it doesn't. Is this an oversight, or a deliberate choice? UX-wise, how are users expected to navigate to the proposals site,... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Proposal: Workplace (name suggestions welcome) I propose creating a new site to cover questions like: Dealing with situations that come up in a professional context Job application/resume/hiring/interview/career advice Similar topics covered by Workplace at StackExchange Why create this site? It is topic of high interest to a broad... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Community proposal: Questions that don't belong anywhere else (yet) There is a lot of interest in adding sites dedicated to various topics, but codidact is not large enough to support many of these. Even on the much more active SE, there are always plenty of site stuck in "proposal hell". There is also often a lot of debate in the proposal posts between people trying... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? For many such proposals, the first things I wonder are: What specifically is wrong with the SE version of this community? What would compel people to abandon it and come here, besides principle? What will you do better that the SE version? A lot of proposal seem to be proposing identical clo... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Getting a gaming community of Codidact I think the idea generally has potential, but the specifics of the post are really undermining it. Why would anyone use this site instead of Arqade? Yes, overall SX is not good and maybe codidact could be better. But for Arqade specifically, there doesn't seem to have been that many problems. I... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Home Improvement community I agree that this is a good pool of users in SX and worth trying to attract here. Elsewhere I've defended the idea that Codidact's communities should stay few and broad for the sake of the longevity of the site. What do you think about combining it with some others, like car repair, woodworking, e... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: CO2 balancing of schools, public authorities and households. Since Codidact appears to be open source, the best option for you would be to run a self-hosted instance of it for your project. Codidact seems focused on communities with general relevance, whereas your community would mainly appeal to a small intersection of several niche group. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Support subjective scoring Codidact, like many other sites, relies on the wisdom of the majority. The approach has some well known flaws. One is "tyranny of the majority" which is really just a special case of "what if the majority votes wrong?" Early on communities are small and tight knit. They're obscure and a certain ty... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Are downvotes needed? Being on the receiving end of a downvote is not a good experience 99.9% of the time. The countless flavors of downvote abuse are notorious. Even for a third party, there is little value in the satisfaction of seeing an answer they dislike thoroughly downvoted, because they'd really rather not see it ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I like the idea because these have been known issues in other places for some time. However, is it really needed? The classic justification for this is an old, obsolete answer that has hundreds of upvotes because it was correct at the time. Now better answers have been given, but first they hav... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? I don't know about eventually, but while codidact is still getting started, it's better to not splinter communities. Critical mass is make or break for communities. Getting to that critical mass is the most vital objective by far, early on. Reaching critical mass for one community is obviously eas... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes? As Monica already explained, making the software open-source does a lot to reduce the barrier to entry for competitors. This provides both an escape hatch in case Codidact does end up following SX, but also is a self-breaking prophecy. The fact that people could just host their own instance easily wi... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |