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Activity for Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
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| Comment | Post #293083 |
Thanks for undoing the refused status! I could've probably been more active here to help clear up the confusion earlier on. Sorry about that. (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293083 |
> I understood the feature request to be for always adding it. If you meant we should have an option, I misunderstood.
Yeah, you misunderstood. The title of my feature request begins with "optional"; that's the key.
> Currently that option is to use the quoting syntax; are you asking for someth... (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293083 |
We’re technically misusing a feature. We aren’t quoting an image, or quoting anyone with it (unless it’s for instance a screenshot of text, in which case it should be copied as text into a blockquote instead).
Have the accessibility issues that may arise from this been considered?
Leaving the... (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292214 |
It’s fully possible by simply applying a class to the `<img>` element. The class is styled in CSS. The rendering-side of the implementation is very easy. As for name, it could be called `image-frame`. The hard part is deciding how this is specified in the post body. (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
You’ve had this discussion before:
- [Seeking feedback on experience with open source chat software](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/292005) (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
What is the goal here? What are you trying to achieve with this poll? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292843 |
Doesn't this effectively mean that you're requesting "me" to be a stand-in value for every single parameter accepting a user ID, across the entire Codidact system? Well, at least for end-human-user-facing interfaces, or for every type of request that would reasonably be made for a logged in user (not... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292664 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Filters for a user's posts Because the Posts by user page is separate from the profile, there's currently no benefit for it to exist at the moment. Redirect to a search page prefilled with "user:xxx" instead. Had the full list been inline somewhere on the profile page, replacing it with the search page may be suboptimal ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292656 |
I originally meant the list within the profile, as I didn't realize you were talking about the separate page. But with that brought up, I'm thinking it could perhaps just direct to the search page instead.
As long as it's a separate page, we don't get any of the benefits of still being on the prof... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292656 |
Originally downvoted this as well as began writing an answer stating I'd rather have the profile page clean without clutter, thinking that for any practical purpose where you'd want to filter a user's posts, you can use the search page. But then I thought, well... once I'm already on the user page, a... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292600 |
If we're trying to be beginner-friendly, we need a dropdown listing _only_ the community proposal tags, and then use that to create a filter for people. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292600 |
Right, the collapsed filter section which is very easy to miss. I never really figured out the filters on Codidact. I've been here for over a year, yet I still don't know how they work. I think that kinda speaks for itself. Filters as implemented on Codidact are more a complicated collections of butt... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292600 |
This would lead to way more categories than is manageable for users. It doesn't solve the problem of the user finding _where_ to post, as it'll be a confusing long list of categories. The solution is filtering. We need to shove a filtering selection into the the top of the Q/A category list. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292588 |
I specifically tried to _not_ make this a collection of _hard_ rules, like we're used to from SE. I find that having _hard_ rules and borders strips curators from making the right choices for the best of the knowledge repository, because there will always be edge cases. I do think that speaks in favo... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292588 |
I added a section expanding on when an existing answer in another community does not suffice to qualify the question as a cross-community duplicate. Does that cover your feedback? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292588 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292588 |
Quite honestly, I didn't address that, because I think it's so obvious that those are not duplicates. But maybe I should add a section on how the same answer can have a different explanation based on which community it's part of. In that case, they would only be cross-community-duplicates if we had t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292588 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292588 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: What are duplicate questions? The most important aspect of a question, is always the answer. We may all have questions, but most questions here are not of the philosophical or rhetorical kind, hence without an answer, the question is not particularly useful. This is the practical answer to why we enforce duplicate closure on ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292587 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
What are duplicate questions? What does Codidact consider a duplicate question? What practical consequences does that have? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
Awesome, but none of that is an argument for the size limit. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292505 |
I don't see how a user can meaningfully have and use the curation ability without first acquiring the editing ability. I'd call it a configuration error if that is possible. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292505 |
Well, I guess if it's deleted between starting and submitting the edit. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292505 |
Under what circumstance would you even be able to suggest an edit on a deleted post? If you can view a deleted post, and is not the post author, you should have the editing ability, right? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292502 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292502 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
500, internal server error, as I try to create a tag Unfortunately, the system won't let me create the tag I wish to make, over at Proposals. Codidact's soul must not be seeing the quality in this tag. Creating it did work when I navigated back to the page, and submitted again. At the same time, the synonyms and parent tag fields were not filled ou... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292446 |
It indeed is perfectly annoying. Very tired of it... Thanks. :) (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292470 |
Would it be bad UX to have mandatory letter assignment when creating new post types? Can be confusing if that ends up with different letters meaning the same thing across communities, or the same letter having different meanings. Maybe admins can manage these letters? Since it's purely cosmetic, does... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292470 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292470 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292470 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Add post type and title to the URL This would make zero functional change to URLs. It's purely cosmetic. A link to a post on Codidact often contains no user-readable information about what awaits at the destination. When I find links online, I very often look at the URL in order to get a rough idea of what it links to. Sometimes I ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
@#85389 Karl wasn't arguing for the exclusion of people, he was arguing that users should be demanded to think more thoroughly about uploading specifically an image.
I do not agree with him that simply hard-blocking people because of image size is the correct way to do it. In case the user _did_ t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292444 |
> As for the interpretation of the votings: How would you call it, if the voting result shows negative and no upvotes? How is this helpful inside an Incubator which is intended to "incubate" things?
Unfortunately, not everything turns out to be a good suggestion or addition to the library. That's ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
> A great example of what we don't want just popped up. See the image in THIS question
Quite honestly, that's an awful example to make your case with. That's an effortless question, and can be argued is just as much a misuse of the ability to upload images at all. The problem also lays at an earli... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
I already covered that in my previous comment. After cropping, the images are still way over the limit. Other times, fullscreen images are necessary, for instance from video games, so cropping isn’t an option.
Also, no, you’re underestimating the time and effort it takes to resize or compress an ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
Well, I have a 4K screen, and the screenshots often end up around 20 MB. Lowering their size is quite tedious, as it involves trying and failing, often because the image loses so much quality when I try to get it below 2 MB.
I think anyone that uses images in posts legitimately, attempts to crop ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
@#8046 Loading images should be deferred to after the page itself has loaded, such that they don't hold up loading in the page itself, and interacting with it. Additionally, you can load in lower quality versions until the full quality one has been downloaded. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292446 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 |
Post edited: The implementation detail is irrelevant, and a background detail for the developers. Besides, the suggested solution isn't so good after all, and it detracts from the real issue |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292446 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292446 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Drafts only save the post body For quite a few months now, every single time I have loaded up a draft that I was working on, only the post body has been loaded in. The tag list and title never appear. They are either not saved, not loaded, or both. This concerns at least questions and tag edits (yes, tag edits). I have not tested ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292282 |
> to focus better: Is this the basis of a story you want to write?
Not at all. It's simply a matter of curiousity, however, my intentions for using the information wouldn't really be relevant here, especially not for Writing, because the topic of the question itself, isn't valid for that community... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292282 |
I asked because I couldn't find a suitable community, not even amongst the proposals. So yeah, there's definitely a need for a new one if we are to host this question. I don't see how this question's topic coincides with Writing. A "Crime Scene Investigation" or "Forensics" community is something I w... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |