Karl Knechtel‭

Codidact has been divided into 2 categories (PowerUsers/SoftwareDevelopment) No, it hasn't. It is a network of 17 communities plus the global Meta site - just like how Stack Exchange is a netw...

posted 21d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

I was surprised to find that ordinary user privileges allow me to close my own posts unilaterally. It does seem useful; just now I posted something on Linux Systems and realized it needed some fixe...

0 answers  ·  posted 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

Following up on Markup documentation? and What html tags can we use in posts?: I see that the site supports <section> tags in posts, and that these can have a class attribute. Recently I sa...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

MRE: <details> <summary>Outer</summary> Outer text <details> <summary>Inner</summary> Inner text </details> </details> Which produces: ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

I knew that blank lines are needed in certain places when mixing HTML markup with Markdown so that the Markdown will actually be processed. For example: <details> <summary> Gory deta...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

It would be bad to prevent deleting questions by simply commenting on them, because the comments could point out why the question actually can't be salvaged from OP's perspective. Currently, commen...

posted 10d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by r~~‭

As a workaround, click "Q&A" in the title bar to go back to that category, then the "Ask Question" button will appear in the usual spot. It's one extra click, but hopefully fairly intuitive.

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

Currently, when I look at search results, or the list of posts on my user profile, I get results that look like: I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corre...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Co...

1 answer  ·  posted 21d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 20d ago by trichoplax‭

In the comments it was noted that a previous question points out the position of the "Copy Link" button feature in the interface, which at first seems like a natural "home" for this feature. A big...

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

Codidact as a whole offers a platform that is an alternative to Stack Exchange as a whole. Each of these platforms determines its topics (at least in principle) according to user demand and initiat...

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

When flagging a post as "Needs author's attention", the interface provides a single-line text entry field for "Details?", which does not allow for newlines. Input text scrolls without any clear ind...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

Yes, we need to clean things up For a Q&A site to come across as useful, the chaff simply needs to be separated from the wheat. We can't expect external search engines to care about our intern...

posted 15d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

By my understanding, one of the key features of the Codidact network is that individual communities are more in control of their local policies. In particular, it appears that community moderators ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭