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Activity for Andreas demands justice for humanity
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #292209 |
I'm not sure if that's a good idea. I'd prefer not having borders if there's no need for it. Unnecessary borders often aren't the prettiest. I'd like to see an example of a border applied to a variety of pictures in various posts first, though, before dismissing the idea.
The technical solution... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292208 |
Post edited: Too much repetitiveness |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292208 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292208 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Optional frames, borders or shadow around images Sometimes, images found in posts blend with the background. That can certainly look better than an image that stands out from the surrounding page, but every now and then, standing out is just what is needed. This can often be the case with screenshots of Codidact itself, where it's confusing when lo... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292204 |
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| Edit | Post #292204 |
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| Edit | Post #292204 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Details tag lacks sufficient styling and summary text I opened the web inspector and made a quick sketch of how I think these sections can be improved. The changes include removing the border, setting a background colour, lowering the weight of the summary font, changing thickness and colour of the dropdown arrow, and setting a border radius. The specif... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292200 |
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| Comment | Post #292201 |
Well, I guess my post should be a feature request for more sophisticated styling, or at least, automatically inserting a summary tag if the post source doesn’t have one, then. Either we style it to get rid of all browser-applied text, or we ensure the text is in the same language as the post.
I t... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292200 |
It’s not a feature when I’m reading English content, only a detraction. It makes no sense to splash a Norwegian word in there, when literally every other part of the website is English. It’s part of the text, not a context menu I open by right-clicking. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292200 |
Post edited: Pesky typos! ;) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292200 |
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| Edit | Post #292200 |
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| Edit | Post #292200 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Details tag lacks sufficient styling and summary text Expandable and collapsible text sections, created using the `details` HTML tag, are insufficiently stylized. This causes the browser to apply its own rules, for instance showing the default text "detaljer" in my browsers, as I run them in Norwegian. Screenshot of the bottom part of this question: ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292198 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Inline code in comments overflows Putting very long text without spaces in an inline code block in a comment, leads to an overflow, as the block does not wrap nor scroll. Screenshot taken in Safari on iOS: > Screenshot of a comment section where the bug takes place (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292194 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292194 |
Found just [this post that happens to contain images](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/291901). Opening those in new tabs works as it should; it displays the images. The URLs are quite similar to the ones that it doesn't work with; `https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.codidact.com/6izmuohj57u1pdepdn2d8v0... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292194 |
Tried from https://meta.codidact.com/users, from user cards attached to posts, and from a specific user's profile. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292194 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Opening somebody else's profile picture in a new tab results in a download Right clicking on somebody else's profile picture, then selecting "open in new tab", results in a new tab opening, but with a download beginning instead of displaying the image inside that tab. For instance, the URL to Mithical's profile picture in the newly opened tab, is `https://s3.amazonaws.com/s... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292004 |
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| Edit | Post #292004 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291623 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290919 |
Post edited: Remove fluff (no need to write out obvious statements) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291113 |
How often do you really see such blatantly obvious AI for this to actually be a problem? (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291121 |
Then why would you want to work together to fix the question? (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291108 |
Or we can start _The Codidact E-Mail Service_. :D
Not a serious suggestion. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
TopAnswers is a niche community with technical topics. Codidact has more communities. (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #291084 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #291061 |
Post edited: Typos galore |
— | about 1 year ago |