Welcome to Codidact Meta!
Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.
Activity for Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suggested Edit | Post #290455 |
Suggested edit: Per Monica’s comment, this is not a bug, as it wasn’t built into the system in the first place. (more) |
helpful | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290455 |
What to do in case the answer has several comment threads, and merging them all into one doesn't make sense (or makes them too confusing)? Merge them by comment date, or thread creation date? Or just delete some of the threads completely (no value in keeping their comments)? Or is it just a very good... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290441 |
that'll probably be a pain to manage. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290441 |
@#8046 Ah. I'd rather not sacrifice the final presentation for solving issues behind the scene. I understand how for now, we need to keep things that way, but it gives us an important point to discuss in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290439.
> if the community-specific reasons are part of the pa... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290442 |
Post edited: |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290442 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What help pages need to be written? I wondered what the scope of the Linux Systems site was. So I went to the help center. There's no obvious page in there that explains what this site is. For instance, is this site accepting questions about programming on Linux? Instead, the limited information that exists, is hidden under "FAQ", wh... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290441 |
> Those might need to be somewhere else, behind a link, so that the help topic itself could be static and easily shared across the network.
But why? The help center already has topics unique to each community. I'm not following along here.
> Those might need to be somewhere else, behind a link,... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290441 |
This post was originally posted elsewhere, and as post moving isn't implemented as of yet, I've deleted it, and reposted this one.
Quoting @#8046 in a comment under the post:
> A help topic about closing should explain the general reasoning and how it works, as you said, and it'd be great to hav... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290441 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What help pages need to be written? Add a list of standard close reasons to the help center. It must include the full list of shared close reasons (those that exist across all CD sites), as well as any additional standard close reasons for the specific community. The list must talk about the scope of questions, and why these close r... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290297 |
Post edited: |
— | 12 months 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) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290297 | Initial revision | — | 12 months 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) |
— | 12 months 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290192 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 |
Post edited: Reduntant information for the post. Better suited for a comment. |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 |
Post edited: |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290154 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Allow including larger images 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) |
— | about 1 year 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 year 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 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290137 |
Post edited: |
— | about 1 year 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 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290137 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290056 |
Post edited: |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290056 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 year 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 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290055 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289745 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289745 |
Suggested edit: Typo (more) |
helpful | about 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago |