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| Comment | Post #289293 |
Sure, I'll take a look when I have a moment!
I think if there's multiple people interested in this, the logical thing is to have an adapter package: A library that presents like an API client, but behind the sees does everything through scraping. All actual applications would import this lib and u... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289297 |
I occasionally see this also - a blue circle with no number in it. Although I think sometimes the circle loads before the number.
To be clear, the bug in my OP *always* goes away after clicking on the notification 2-5 times. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289296 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Nothing against newbies btw: In domains where I'm an expert, I'm occasionally in the mood to answer basic newbie questions. Other times I'm bored of the basic stuff and only want to see the "meaty" stuff. It would be nice to have a way of filtering those, that works based on the natural default behav... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Well, that's my point. It would be work to get newbies to tag their question `newbie-question`. But it's no work at all to get them to tag with vague tags like `voltage`, they already do it automatically. Being newbies, they don't have enough knowledge about the field to know the more specialized tag... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289293 |
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| Edit | Post #289293 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
It seems like tagging `voltage` conveys useful information, namely that the question is *about* voltage. It seems a bit like saying an `electron` tag would be useless on a chemistry site because everything has electrons - yes but you're not tagging it `electron` because it has them, you're tagging it... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289292 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289291 |
I think there is an opportunity here to kill the proverbial two birds. However, you have a point with over-generality. I think it's completely fine if staleness is implemented for proposal reactions only. If it works out well, we can always make another meta post later for expanding this feature.
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289288 |
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| Edit | Post #289288 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289290 |
Just a minor note, but the same applies to marking as "works for me". If you mark an answer as "works for me" and then it's edited, it potentially makes you "works for me" irrelevant (depending on how substantial an edit is). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289290 |
If you marked something dangerous, you should get notifications when the post is edited. That way you can review it and decide whether it's still dangerous.
IMO that's an argument to add staleness to "dangerous" as well - if the question is not edited it should never go stale, but if the question ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289288 |
Yes, but you're around. If you said you'd use proposal X, and forgot about it 3 years ago, but now proposal X gets created, there's a good chance you'd see it and use it as you initially said. This is different from someone who has stopped using the site entirely, as many of their reactions become mu... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289288 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289143 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289142 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288706 |
I wasn't aware that this was an option - this would actually take care of the problem as far as I can see! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288633 |
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| Comment | Post #288633 |
Sure! My thinking was that if the devs *intended* for it to be this way, it should be merely [feature-request], but if it was *unintended* it should be a [bug]. So I figured I'd add both, and someone would tell me which is wrong... Thanks!
Btw, apologies if anyone on the CD team is offended - I de... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288642 |
I'm okay with raising the bar also.
It can sometimes be annoying when it obviously should be a tag, but then you're not allowed to make them. Especially when you use an alt account for privacy (eg. sensitive/identifiable questions), and it treats you like a clueless noob when you know what you're ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288633 |
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| Edit | Post #288633 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
I'm not sure if the original asker is still active, so I went ahead and copied it over to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288625 . Even though I disagree with several details, I tried to not change the proposal too much. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288624 |
Not sure if bug or feature - please edit tags if you know for sure. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288624 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288325 |
Thanks @#8046! That's a great new development, I'm happy to see it was set up. I'll move this proposal over there once I have time to rewrite it to fit the proposal template. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288325 |
I find the name "workplace" terrible, and certainly wouldn't want to copy it, but I can't think of anything better. Any suggestions? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288325 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Proposal: Professional & Career 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288278 |
@#8046 Well, I see your point that just because SO got that way when it became popular, doesn't mean Codidact will necessarily go that way when it gets popular.
However, why *wouldn't* it? It's a very similar site with a lot of the same users. All sorts of things used to be allowed on SO, and then... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288267 |
Thank you, both! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288278 |
This is an attractive idea but in my experience on SO/SE:
1. 1-2 downvotes usually lead to the question being summarily closed with a highly generic, unhelpful reason.
2. 3-4 downvotes usually lead to the question being deleted.
3. There are **rarely** comments offering constructive criticism. A... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
>while being ghosts to each other
So, no - because I'm not talking about filtering *users*. That would indeed not work well. In your example, people who upvote homework questions would see homework questions. People who don't upvote them wouldn't. Both groups would see non-homework questions, and ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
> choice of programming language, static vs dynamic typing, SQL vs NoSQL, desired level of abstraction
Are any of these on-topic for https://software.codidact.com/? They all seem irrelevant in that asking those things is against the rules to begin with, and I can't imagine anybody voting based on ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288267 |
There's a pending edit notice on this question, but it leads to an HTTP 500 page. Bug? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
> Votes on Codidact are not just about expressing what you like and want to see, they are indicating which posts are beneficial to the community.
This is a wonderful ideal and I fully support it. However, the fact is that most users do not use votes that way, but use them as a like/dislike button.... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
Usually, "echo chamber" is used to criticize political polarization and avoiding news that challenge one's ideology. This seems like it wouldn't be a concern on a Q&A site, where we discuss not political opinions and current events, but factual questions about politically neutral questions. What sort... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
Q&A sites in the style of this one are not expert/noob, that is a falsehood perpetrated by SE in its decline. They are peer-to-peer. Privileging "experts" (and of course, what better measure than rep, which is just a proxy for seniority on the site, right?) is not going to help the community in any w... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285568 |
I agree with this, but the most important thing is that the "real environment" is a much better showcase of both what kinds of questions would actually be asked and how much activity it would have.
As for mod effort, it would actually be even less than any other site, because there is no need to l... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
It comes down to this: Who do you want more on Codidact right now, like a lot more? Would be community organizers who want to be in charge of their own Q&A site where they set the rules? Or people who want to ask and answer questions?
A site about proposals and potential questions only attracts th... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |