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Activity for Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #292013 |
Mattermost is most similar to Slack, and it’s not a good final platform for Codidact. It seems too centralized, and doesn’t seem like something that scales as well. In fact, the best chat software for a Q/A platform like Codidact, that I can see, is actually the Stack Exchange chat with a few upgrade... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292005 |
If Codidact is still set on building chat software (I’d like to cowork on it once I feel productive enough to pick up programming again), I think we should avoid some intermediary software. We currently have a bunch of users on the Discord server(s), but not that many are active. As has been said bef... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292004 |
Post edited: |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292004 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Make links to content on the same page scroll instead of reloading the page with a new URL We'd achieve better UX if links to content on the same page, scrolls to that content instead of loading a new page. For instance, this answer is one of two answers to a question. It has a link to the other answer, but instead of scrolling up to it, the browser loads the same page over again, but w... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291785 |
The current version of comment threads is clunky and not the greatest UX. I've wanted to experiment with improving them, and that might include changing the visibility such that some threads are enlarged by default. We don't need a discussion of how comment threads are to be designed, ***under here**... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291623 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Question | — |
Show password on sign-in There's currently not a method to show the password that's being typed into the password field when signing in, as there are just the common dots being displayed instead. Suggested functionality Default to displaying dots. Add a new button inside the password field, located in the rightmost are... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288361 |
There are more curation activities available now and in the future, that may be incompatible with ActivityPub.
- Moving posts between categories
- Changing post types
- Moving posts between communities
In general, I’m very skeptical if curation plays well with AP. I don’t have much knowledge... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288801 |
Following a user’s activity can be useful for bots on the network, such as monitoring for spam and abuse. But do we really want people on social media to be following user accounts on Codidact? I don’t think so. Since we’re not a social media, it’s not the user that matters to the network, but the co... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291306 |
The flag implies that AI-generated content _with_ attribution is acceptable. One of the ways that new users get acquainted with the site, is to open the flag dialogue and see what options are there. When they read this text, they may be led to believe that AI-generated content is only to be flagged i... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Fortunately, Discord is available as website, so you don't have to install any binaries from them. I access Discord regularly in Firefox on two machines. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work in Tor. I will of course never install any native applications from the Discord company. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290919 |
Post edited: Remove fluff (no need to write out obvious statements) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291156 |
I don't like the idea of voting to close or reopen a question. It's an artifact from SE, where untrusted members acquire the privilege simply due to reaching enough reputation. That's not an issue, so we don't need that system in place to guard against these people.
That said, it's not always gre... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291113 |
How often do you really see such blatantly obvious AI for this to actually be a problem? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
Even experts make mistakes. It’s stupid to design a system such that an honest and simple mistake can have grave consequences.
I also never referred to low IQ as my idea of stupid. Everyone is stupid sometimes. My level of IQ is amongst a small minority of humans on this planet, but it doesn’t pr... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
Then why would you want to work together to fix the question? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
> Reopen flags are insular. I can't easily see who else flagged to reopen and when. I can't message them so we can work together on fixing the question. Best I can do is start a comment thread and hope they see it - I don't think comments on a question you flagged currently generate a notification.
... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291113 |
No, you should write some reasoning why you think the post is AI, not just state that it is. I know it's tedious, but what's obvious to you, isn't always obvious to the one handling your flag. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291108 |
Or we can start _The Codidact E-Mail Service_. :D
Not a serious suggestion. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
TopAnswers is a niche community with technical topics. Codidact has more communities. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
> Still, some communities might want the slightly higher bar; so there should be a setting for communities to disallow anonymous accounts from participating on that community.
> I think this could be a differentiator that sets Codidact apart from other, similar sites; perhaps especially so if comm... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
> The user would be told to record this, as without it access to the account would be impossible.
Best be aware that some users will still fail to do this. And even those that do, yeah, it can be annoying keeping track of this, especially if the location or format they stored it in, later ceases ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291084 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can I view questions across multiple sites (or the entire network) on a single page? Unfortunately, such a page does not yet exist. However, there are two alternative methods of finding new top-level posts across all sites: - The Codidact Community Chat lets you monitor a set of rooms that a bot posts new questions into shortly after they are created on Codidact. This will all... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291061 |
Post edited: Typos galore |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291061 |
Post edited: |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291061 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Suggested edit review result page pulls wrong post revision for comparison In the view for one of my suggested edits, the comparison between the revisions pulls the wrong revision for that which the edit was based on. I edited revision 1, but the comparison compares my edit to revision 3 (the most recent one): (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291059 |
Suggested edit: Remove fluff (more) |
declined | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291055 |
Post edited: |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291055 |
Suggested edit: (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291055 |
Most definitely a bug (programmer error), judging by the error message. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291029 |
@#8046i Sorry, no, I still haven't looked into the source code (personal reasons). However, I'm fully certain that it _is_ possible in some way (to the best of my knowledge and experience with programming, there should be no technical limits on this). But, since I don't know the particular framework,... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291028 |
I'm aware that there are limitations in the way it's currently implemented, however, that's not a reason to decline suggestions to improve that. It's only an explanation of how it currently works. Please see Karl's answer for a better replacement. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291029 |
Then the solution is to make the flag modal aware of it. It's not necessary to refresh the page.
The problem isn't that it's an abuse vector, it's that it's confusing and unintuitive to the end user. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290983 |
It’s certainly better to fill that spot with the top-level post’s title (for now), but it’s very much a workaround, and not an actual solution to the feature request, so it’s not sufficient to mark it as status-completed. It doesn’t really solve the issue at hand; it only aleviates it partially. It w... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290916 |
Post edited: Rewrite of the post to clarify. It's based on the information in one of the comment threads. This post would be an ideal duplicate of a feature request asking for a network profile, but it seems as if none exist so far. |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290962 |
Post edited: Remove fluff |
— | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290962 |
Suggested edit: Remove fluff (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290957 |
> Being able to mention user names also helps to differentiate between different approaches in answers.
I’ll make the assumption that I understand what you mean here. I’ve seen it on Stack Overflow, and even done it myself, so I understand its uses. But I still don’t like it. It’s a very crude way... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290957 |
@#36377 Also, since you mention licenses; I figured it would be fairly obvious I’m talking about referring to other users on the network for a personal exchange with them.
Quoting content, and providing necessary attribution, is of course not something I’d ban.
From the question I answered:
> ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290957 |
@#36377 I fail to see the applications you mention being realistic or useful. Can you share some examples?
My answer concerns Q/A posts (questions and answers) (mainly the main category), not blog, nor comments. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290957 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can I use @Username to notify users from within my question or answer? This is not only a bad idea for the reasons already outlined in existing answers, but: Codidact is first and foremost a Q/A network, not a discussion forum, not a helpdesk, not a chat service, and not a social media. Being able to mention users in posts would directly contradict the goals of this ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290955 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290955 |
The description for the tag should be quite simple; state the purpose of the tag, and link back to this post. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290955 |
Post edited: Pesky typos! |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290955 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290955 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |