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Activity for Andreas
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #290297 |
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— | 2 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290297 |
:) Well, it's been 3 years, so that should hopefully have been enough time to turn around. As long as it won't have any impact on today's situation, I suggest to leave it behind, and not let it follow you anymore. Everyone deserves a new chance. (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Edit | Post #290297 | Initial revision | — | 2 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Am I allowed to participate here, despite being network banned from Stack Exchange? Bad behaviour is not welcome here. That does not mean that somebody who made a mistake in the past, cannot be welcomed here. As long as you will contribute to Codidact in a constructive way, and follow our code of conduct, you are welcome to participate here. Stack Exchange and Codidact are independe... (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
> They also have a bounty system, though it wouldn't be easy to set up here due to Codidact being relatively less rep focused.
I hope Codidact never gets this. It excludes people with less reputation, those that are most in need of actually using it. (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290192 |
The post has now been deleted, with the first flag marked as helpful. The second one is stuck as pending. (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #290192 | Initial revision | — | 20 days ago |
| Question | — |
Submit same flag multiple times I just managed to flag the same post for spam twice. I flagged it, then commented on it, then flagged it again. There are now two separate spam flags on it in my flag history. Screenshot of the two flags in my history This is potentially possible to abuse to acquire abilities earlier than supp... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
> a lot of casual users know how to take pictures with their phones and share them via email/WhatsApp/text/etc. but have no clue how to upload directly to a web site, so I have some ideas on fixing that as well by allowing directed emails - e.g., send to postid-image@codidact.com and it automagically... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
@#8062 Well, I just assumed the purpose of having that low limit was to reduce server load, by requiring far less data transfer. As long as the server can handle such higher limits, and there's nothing to actually save by doing it client-side, then it's a possibility to do it server-side. Although, e... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 |
Post edited: Reduntant information for the post. Better suited for a comment. |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
See [this Q/A](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14672746/how-to-compress-an-image-via-javascript-in-the-browser) on SE for a solution. Excuse me for linking to the "wrong" Q/A site; we need more questions here. :P (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 |
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— | 28 days ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 | Initial revision | — | 28 days ago |
| Question | — |
Support larger file sizes by compressing them before transfer to the server Many images and screenshots captured today, are larger than 2 MB, the max allowed size on Codidact. This means users will regularly run into a barrier when attempting to upload images to their posts (or profile). Just now, I wanted to create a new post, which would benefit from some screenshots, howe... (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290143 |
Bullet point 1 is quite an obvious and uncontroversial improvement, and doesn't require much resources, so I'd say that one should go through immediately.
Bullet point 2 is only a mild improvement over the current situation, so I don't really think it's enough of an improvement to mitigate the dr... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290143 |
It's kinda cumbersome _not_ to see the table from the dashboard, on the help page. When I go to the help page, I do so to learn more about abilities; I would certainly assume that my abilities progression is listed there. That's a part of learning about the abilities.
I also find it quite pointle... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290137 |
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— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290137 |
Right. Of course, not until _after_ posting this, I realized the abilities dashboard actually _does_ serve one more purpose: showing the abilities of another user.
For instance, Monica's abilities: https://meta.codidact.com/abilities?for=8046
And mine: https://meta.codidact.com/abilities?for=6427... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290137 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard Where to find information about the abilities, is currently a bit confusing. There are too many pages. The help page for abilities, as well as the dashboard, present pretty much the exact same information, although the table on the dashboard is more informative than the list on the help page. I sug... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290056 |
@#65961 It doesn't really matter. Either way satisfies the needs here, and limiting it to Codidact's GitHub organization probably requires an extra check in the code, compared to doing it for everything on GitHub, so I don't see much purpose in doing that. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290056 |
Ideally, because Codidact uses GitHub for development, those links should also be rendered with their titles, with an additional prefix that shows they're to GitHub.
Not sure if I should limit my post to just Codidact ones, and leave the additional request for GH links in this comment, in an answer,... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290055 |
Post edited: Decided to have an explicit list instead of inlining the links in the text. Must've forgot to delete the inline one after I pasted it into the list. |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290056 |
Post edited: |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290056 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Display post titles instead of the URL for internal links Currently, when pasting a link to somewhere on Codidact, into posts or comments, the link is rendered in the output the same way it's written in the post source; that is, the URL. The parser should output the title of the page it's linking to. The same can be achieved manually, by visiting the pa... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290052 |
@#65961 Sure. I'm just not very fond of posting single-line answers myself. There's a voice in my head (not literally) telling me I need to write more than that. :P
@#64656 One of the links in my now posted answer. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290055 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How do I suggest edits to tags? This isn't possible, as of yet. It's a limitation in the system, and one that needs fixing. It's been mentioned a few times, and so is a known limitation. It's not by design; it's just functionality not yet implemented. See also: - https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289350 - https://meta.codida... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290052 |
This isn't possible, as of yet. It's a limitation in the system, and one that needs fixing. I've flagged your post as duplicate. It can be reopened once it's possible to suggest such edits. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289911 |
@#8046 I don’t really see how that solves the issue. Also, if this risks discouraging further edits, improvements and updates, the canonical may simply age out. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289911 |
> It's hard to engage with the Stack Overflow community to improve the canonical, because people (especially the original authors) reject or roll back edits
How is this not going to become a problem of equal weight, at Codidact?
The other issues you mention have solutions that are easier to ima... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289745 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289745 |
Suggested edit: Typo (more) |
helpful | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289910 |
If it’s unrelated to this, and really had nothing to do with this one, then I agree; a discussion about it is off-topic here. However, if it did, it would be relevant, as we’d both agree with the question text here, although interpret it differently.
That said, I’m one of the downvoters there, so... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289911 |
I understood that, but maybe I’m just reading too far into it, in considering it not just for the current situation, but future situation. I took a piece of text which was written in the context of _now_, and applied it to the _future_. Perhaps that was wrong. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289910 |
Specifically, in the case on SO, is that regex Q/As are more about asking somebody to fish for you, instead of teaching you how to fish by yourself. And with the vast amount of «what’s the regex for this», and the regex debugging questions, we are left with a database that cannot really be searched. ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289911 |
Perhaps I’m misreading the true meaning behind «caring about content».
If we require that people are self-invested in their content down the road, we’re gonna run into problems once the original authors leave the site. This will happen; not everybody stays around indefinitely, for many reasons. O... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289910 |
This is a good and necessary discussion I have considered bringing up myself, and I definitely encourage filling this database of knowledge independently of what’s on SE. Obviously, there’s a fine line between «basic, but acceptable», and «too basic, and too easily accessible in the documentation», b... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> should I be forced to read some Rand who has never touched a computer opinion on it ?
If a comment is not relevant, or has no reason to be posted, it should just be deleted. Flag it for a moderator to remove it. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
@#65505 I still fail to understand why you resist using the comment section, and why you insist that the discussion chat _must be private_. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> let's say I'm talking about microchips and I want Olin's opinion, should I be forced to read some Rand who has never touched a computer opinion on it ?
Why would Olin want to engage in a private chat with you about this? He'd wanna do it openly, so everybody can benefit from what he has to say, ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> How will people figure out if X method is better than Y without argument ?
Hopefully, an answer post should contain everything necessary; if not, the comments should ask for clarifications, or give criticism of the content.
> Private chats would just facilitate that
Private chats lead to... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> Also, what's wrong with people arguing ?
Q/A is not the right format for a discussion, and questions in the Q/A format are not discussion starters. Also, when I speak of the unpleasant experiences, that is people literally fighting in the comment section. Just a few days ago, I chose to engage i... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
> Not that I have anything against your opinion, but your justification made no sense because Codidact's goal is to serve the community, not profit
No, I'm saying it doesn't align with the goals of Codidact, which is, an open repository of knowledge, which also happened to, once upon a time, be th... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289767 |
You should also [update this](https://meta.codidact.com/abilities/unrestricted) to say why it was awarded. It's where I imagine most users would go first, and there's no trace of "new site" there.
Also, it's unclear if the "participate everywhere" ability is lost for users that don't fulfill the s... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289767 |
But you introduced a new typo!
> This ability allows you to post**s** 3 top-level posts
;) (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289761 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability rewarded upon sign-up, to better explain exactly what plain new users have access to. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289738 |
Post edited: Rewritten for better clarity |
— | 2 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289738 |
Suggested edit: Rewritten for better clarity (more) |
helpful | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289733 |
@#65505 No, this is unreasonable. What Olin is describing has been a constant issue in the comment sections on Stack Overflow (and probably other SE sites), and sometimes, people do drag these arguments/fights into the SE chat. These are mostly unpleasant experiences. Even if that isn't what the auth... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289723 |
Post edited: |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286683 |
As long as the message type information is preserved for easy redesigns in the future. I do think that design risks being confusing, though. It'll look like a message header with a missing message. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289726 |
The existence of a comment thread still means it's somewhat of a noise. In addition, there is a small chance that something useful beyond the topic of a specific comment thread, is posted there. So I think [Moshi](https://meta.codidact.com/users/53196)'s [answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/28972... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286683 |
The «resolved by user» comment should be visually distinct from normal comments, to clearly mark the difference between an actual comment, and a system message. Something similar to how Github/GitLab handle replies and system messages in PRs and issues, should work. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289723 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more The exchange that provoked this question, happened on one of my answers. I wrote the response to you, to acknowledge your helpful comment, and to notify you that you were indeed right. In addition to pointing out the typo in my post, you also said you were unsure about what I really meant. As suc... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289719 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289719 |
My answer may contain two misconceptions; that answers already prevent question deletion on Codidact, and that the deletion votes privilege on Stack Overflow would provide an opportunity to move an answered self-asked question into the deletion review queue. I'll update my answer if it comes to my kn... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289719 |
Post edited: |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289719 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response There are some good reasons to prevent question deletion when answers exist. There are users that believe the correct course of action is to "clean up" their instance of communication on the site, by deleting their question, once they have received an answer. This is wrong, and the system should have... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289626 |
> - Should existing links to old proposals continue to work?
> - Should the authors/followers of old proposals be notified and be given time to migrate before losing access?
> - Should there be any automatic migration?
Why should these _not_ be preserved/handled? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289474 |
Well, yeah; I think the issue with answers, really, is the way they’re sorted. There are some valid questions that aren’t too broad to be declined, yet result in numerous answers. We have optimized for finding questions, not answers, it actually seems like.
If we’re a bit creative, perhaps have a... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289474 |
> The community might decide it's better to remove or replace the language tag, collaborate on a "main" language-agnostic answer, and then add language-tagged answers with more specific examples of the syntax.
Is this actually a good use of the Q/A format? Much of the reason we use the Q/A format ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289452 |
Post edited: |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289452 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What should happen with inactive communities? A site may be effectively dead in terms of new valid contributions. That is unfortunate, and may reflect badly on the rest of the Codidact network. A user visiting Codidact for the first time, may be provided a bad first impression, if the Codidact site they visited, has been inactive for a while. In... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
I believe we are describing different situations. Maybe the tags on SE EE are indeed horrible, and that the tagging system is abused by the users. I don't think that situation applies to SO. Do you have any idea why the situation is as it is on the EE site, considering that SO accomplishes good use o... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
Examples: [Vulkan](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vulkan); only 1 tag, despite there existing multiple major and minor versions of it. Because of the way that Vulkan is designed, it's pointless to specify tags with version numbers. [Cocoa](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cocoa)... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 I am making the point that SO manages to handle tag creations fairly well. That's not where the issue lays; rather, the issues with tag creation can be mitigated by better tag management.
Therefore, it's important that you don't misunderstand how it works, if you are to understand my argu... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 If you want an example of what it would look like to use "each part number we have in electronics" on SO, or CD's software site, that would be to tag each question with the CPU, motherboard, GPU, screen, keyboard model, mouse model, etc, for each question. That makes no sense, and we don't do... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991e No, you're exaggerating the situation on SO. We default to using tags without version numbers if the version of the framework is irrelevant. In most cases, that holds true. However, there are times when a framework may look substantially different between the major versions, or there are oth... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
I’m not sure why you would say that tags on SO are only keywords, and not a way to convey semantic information. The [help page](https://stackoverflow.com/help/tagging) does say they exist for searching purposes, yes, but that’s not their only purpose. They are not meant to just describe the contents ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 They have existed [since at least 2010](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tag-synonym-process?tab=newest&page=9&pagesize=50) (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#52991 [Tag synonyms exist on SO](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
I don't think there's been any problems with this on Stack Overflow, really. It's easy to rename and merge tags there, and as the scale of that site is quite large, I'd say it's a good example. I don't think the downsides of allowing everyone to create tags, at least not for a Q/A section, will ever ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Each banned tag should be a child tag of a class specifying tag; meaning, the topmost parent defines a class of tags that are associated with a help page document that explains why this specific set of tags has been banned. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289412 | Question closed | — | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
I failed to reproduce this issue again with [a test post](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289413). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
Upon checking the list of tags, and filtering by "notification", it does indeed seem that those three tags are all separate from each other. So I don't know why that happened to my post. That said, It's quite peculiar to have both a "notification" and a "notifications" tag. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289412 |
It happened when I posted [this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289411) question. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289412 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
[tag:Notifications] should not be a synonym of [tag:email-notifications] I just created a bug report post about notifications in the inbox. When applying tags for my post, I typed in "notifications". That resulted in two tags [tag:notification] and [tag:notifications]. Had Codidact showed me some kind of a tag wiki excerpt, I would be able to know the difference between t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289411 |
Post edited: I don't know if e-mail notifications are relevant here, but that's not what I selected when creating this post. It showed as "notifications". |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289411 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Notifications for deleted comments in the inbox. Currently, the inbox retains notifications for comments that have since been deleted. This is unnecessary, and quite a disappointment when you're eager for a discussion, only to find that the comment you were gonna read, no longer is there. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289410 |
Due to the example given, I am worried that it's been considered to restrict questions on Software.CD to specific languages. Is this the case, or has this come up on another related site? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
I'm not sure what the point is about that. I think a slightly larger limit suffices. Introducing a new privilege for this seems unneeded to me. And I'm not sure why one would ever need 20 tags. At that point, I'd say there's probably something that's gone wrong, and a discussion on Meta is best. Actu... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #39469 |
Post edited: Grammatical cleanups |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #39469 |
Suggested edit: Grammatical cleanups (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
- Mass creation of new tags.
- Extra server load (this should be handled by the server anyway, similar to max post length, and other basic defenses against malicious usage).
- Abusing tags for visibility
(more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289368 |
I'm not entirely convinced that a limit on the number of tags, is the best way to counter these problems. Generic tags, as well as company name tags, shouldn't exist in the first place, and they can still be created by just omitting other kind of tags. These tags should be deleted and banned once the... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289364 |
Somewhere Else stacks them twice; first horizontally, then vertically. That seems perfect to me, unless we’re permitting 20+ tags. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288761 |
on SE (mainly, MSO and MSE), I have regularly upvoted both comments stating something, and comments disagreeing with them, because I think that they are both useful, bring up an important discussion, and both present important and valid viewpoints. I have even done so for a discussion between 2+ peop... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289366 |
Post edited: |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289364 |
Why is there a limit on 5 tags in the first place? Is it to prevent cluttering? Technical reasons? Was it as simple as a pragmatic choice by the programmer? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289366 |
Post edited: |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289366 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Assessing the 5 tag limit Such a tag limit seems low to me, though I can't think of any specific cases in which more than 5 tags would apply. However, I'm not sure what the use in limiting this upfront is; I'm not sure it solves any problems that aren't better addressed in other ways. In case there actually is a need for more... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #276584 |
Has there been any progress as to establishing Codidact as an organization? If not, why not?
(more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
@mrTsjolder My understanding is that this can be satisfied by first downloading all the licenses with one request, then let subsequent requests just refer to one of the licenses already downloaded. Is that wrong to assume? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
2. Where is a license required?
- every time any licensed content is included in a response?
- No; document that certain content is under a license (that said, isn't everything under a license (does Codidact not have a license for its content?). Why would you want to process license data ever... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I don’t think you need to address question 1 upfront, if you go with the idea of using an ID or index. Doesn’t Codidact only permit a predefined set of licenses anyway? So each time Codidact accepts a new license, assign a new ID to it, or add it to the list of licenses, and use its index.
If you... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Simple idea:
```
class Post {
long id;
byte license;
List<Comment> comments;
List<Revision> revisions;
}
class Revision {
long authorID;
String text;
List<String> tags;
Date date;
int index; // in case certain revisions are omitted
}
class Comm... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I'm not sure if I see a need _not_ to include the license with all content; this can be as simple (and small) as a single byte, which is an ID of a predefined license, or an index into a table of licenses. So, this data is very small, and can be transmitted regardless of how the content is requested.... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #74961 |
If an issue is a combination of bugs, bad UX, and/or incomplete programming, how should that case be handled? I could post all on one site, or struggle with distributing it on both sides, which is neither optimal. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |