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Posts by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&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 fo...

posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Can you post a question just to answer it yourself?

Of course! You will find the answer if you ask what the purpose of Codidact is. Codidact is not a helpdesk, but a knowledge repository. So yes, part of the purpose of Codidact, is to answer your o...

posted 11mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A 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 ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A List all duplicates for a question on the target question's page

Currently when viewing a post, there is no indication that it's being used as a duplicate target. As a curator, it's useful information to me that when I view a question, I am also informed if any...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by riQQ‭

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Q&A How do we want to organize the help center?

Right now, the help center is structured with a main landing page with sections containing lists of specific help content, with each of these contents being on specific pages (example). That's fine...

posted 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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...

4 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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:

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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. This is potentiall...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Category activity indicator is lit for one's own activity

When new posts are submitted to a category, a small circle is displayed next to the category's name, within its tab in the category bar. This activity indicator is displayed even when the only new...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&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 o...

posted 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&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 questi...

posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Make the tag wiki, synonyms and hierarchy revision history public

GitHub issue: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1218 When looking at a tag's wiki page on Codidact as a normal user with only the two basic abilities, there is no extended information su...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Redesign the tag page to provide more clarity about the tag's attributes

Tag wiki pages are currently a bit unclear on a few things. If you possess good knowledge of how that page is built, it's pretty clear to you that if it doesn't list something, it means it doesn't ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A 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 inf...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What are duplicate questions?

What does Codidact consider a duplicate question? What practical consequences does that have?

3 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once?

The problem with this question, and overall discussion, is that we're only having it because the post activity update system is broken. If we can't make minor edits without causing a lot of disrupt...

posted 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Auto-navigate from post preview to post source

I'd like to be able to double-click in a specific location in the preview of the post I'm writing (or editing), and have the site scroll up to the post source (input box), and scroll and move the c...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A 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 t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭