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Activity for Karl Knechtel
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #296431 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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How can I see what a proposed edit would look like? The diff view of proposed edits is generally good, and useful to have as a default; but sometimes it's not obvious how new Markdown will render. I'd like to know how to check this unobtrusively, if there's already explicit support that I overlooked; and request it if not. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296347 |
I can imagine situations where something was posted in the wrong section but is also a duplicate. In the future, communities could possibly grow to where the right section for a question is unclear (or depends on how it's phrased), or the actual question is a bit vague etc. but it turns out that ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296421 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Why at least 1 tag? I agree with Olin that some form of incentive is necessary if you want to actually end up with questions getting tagged. But there are sticks, and then there are carrots. One possibility is to allow untagged questions, but have them start automatically closed until someone edits to add a tag. ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295506 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: feedback requested: new communities I gave specific feedback at the provided links, but I also want to make a general note: I am generally in favour of broader scope for any new communities, thus I support both combinations. Fragmentation is IMHO the worst thing we can do when we're still so small; while endless growth isn't necess... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295497 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A more comprehensive top-bar redesign proposal What we have now (left to right) The site logo. Clicking on it goes to the domain root (e.g. https://meta.codidact.com). A "Users" button, which routes directly to the `/users` page. (Stack Exchange stuffs its equivalent into the left sidebar, which we don't use.) A "Search" button, w... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294975 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Anonymized artificial questions for curators I conceived of this originally for Software, but I think the entire network would benefit. I've seen several communities point out in their meta that "easy", or rather fundamental questions are intended to be on topic, and general agreement that it's useful to have them answered. Most people are ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294770 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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Enhance dashboard by hiding "uninteresting" sites per-user A recent question highlights that the dashboard is currently not very accessible as a feature. Currently, this page displays up to three site "boxes" per row, all top-aligned within the row. In the HTML source this all appears to be a single list of \s which is neatly flowed into a grid using (Bo... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292200 |
Since this is default text that isn't being provided by the actual post content, it seems natural to me that the browser would want to localize it. I would call that a feature. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #292194 |
I can reproduce this from the users list and individual user posts, but not from the user card here. Firefox 128.0.3 from Linux.
Edit: I couldn't reproduce it from the user card on *this* post, but I *could* from user cards on that other Meta post. But also *not* from the images embedded in th... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291785 |
I agree that the interface could be improved but I would still *greatly* prefer for the threads to be collapsed in some form or other by default. (For example, the *entire thread* could go in a `<details>` tag.) A big part of the site design is that comments don't take up a bunch of screen space,... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291785 |
This answer (at least in the first revision) coincidentally is 995 characters long, so it (less the footer) gives an indication of how much screen space a "full-length" comment might be expected to take up. To me it hardly seems worth collapsing. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291785 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should details tags work in comments? Even if it didn't actively encourage misuse of the site, time spent on a feature like this would be far better used elsewhere. `` tags are already sufficient to implement a "spoiler" within an answer. If for some reason it were necessary to mark comment content as a spoiler - for example, disc... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291781 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to deal with links to commerce? Please don't use/allow links like this It's fundamentally still advertising Notwithstanding what manufacturers or retailers are suggested, and regardless of apparent intent, links like these still fundamentally serve the purpose of advertising a product or service. If this answer had come f... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291620 |
I also agree. I think the usual visual language is to: a) reduce background contrast; b) on hover, change the cursor to the "universal no" symbol. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291760 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Clarity for a user who has become signed out during editing I like this idea generally, but I don't think that an unusable button should turn directly into a redirect to the login page. Instead, it should pop up a message explaining the situation, and offering to go to the login. Otherwise, I think it would be far too jarring. Personally, being presented ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291758 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Giving a fish vs. teaching how to fish Varying utility I think you and I have tossed around ideas like this quite a bit already - if not between the two of us, then separately to the crowd. And I think my viewpoint hasn't changed. Personally, my sense is that this idea only makes sense for the most technical sites, where there's... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291345 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Syntax highlighting comments break the unsupported tags warning message Based on the comment discussion, I can see no reason to consider support for syntax highlight hinting via HTML comments. "Code fences" have a built-in syntax highlighting suggestion and are all around quite practical and standard: such "fenced code blocks" are part of the CommonMark standard, and... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291331 |
Are syntax highlighting *comment hints* actually a thing? I mean - is there prior art for them, like some other site that recognizes and uses them? I'm not aware of anything like that having an effect on Stack Exchange, for example. What actually is the underlying motivation for supporting them h... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291321 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Why prefer Codidact to Stack Exchange? Superior technology The site software supports more post types than just Q&A, and multiple Q&A sections with separate labels. This allows each community to organize content, post high-quality information without the need to hew to the Q&A format, set up "staging" areas for questions that migh... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291242 |
This is marked `status-completed` now, but the bug is still [completely reproducible](https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags?q=hax). It indeed seems to happen when there are no matching tags. The searches from the OP do work now; I guess it's now searching the entire tag description ins... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291184 |
This proposal is specifically about Markdown links. I didn't consider that URLs normally auto-link; deliberate link-breaking is certainly out of scope for what I imagined. The goal is to prevent generating actual links that either people might click on or that could affect SEO for the destination... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281546 |
Post edited: additional grammar fix |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 |
Post edited: ... Nope, seems I was wrong? This stuff is hard to see clearly in light mode |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 |
Post edited: It appears that such spans only have extra height in the preview.... |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Proposal and design for temporary blocking of new user links (anti-spam) Discussion on Introduce a spam reaction? brought up the idea of preventing new users from posting links, so as to create an additional hurdle for spammers (who will rarely make any serious attempt to integrate themselves into a community before spamming). This of course has the drawback that q... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281546 |
Suggested edit: additional grammar fix (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291183 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Introduce a spam reaction? I like this idea. I'm not worried about the potential for "drama" because disruptive users already have many other tools at their disposal (such as, say, posting), and in practice this kind of disruption is quite rare outside of spam - even on massive sites like Stack Overflow. (Even there, nonse... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291156 |
In that case I'm afraid I can't really imagine what you have in mind. "Voting" on closure on SE really just means getting a specific number of people to weigh in. That's part of the point: it's not a process where everyone voices an opinion either for or against up front.
I don't think that "g... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291158 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered? At last we are getting to addressing the elephant in the room head-on. Lundin and Olin's answers both capture ideas that I feel are very important, that apply to varying extents across Codidact. I'll include a couple collapsed sections of background, and then present a proposal. There are ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291156 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Can we streamline the process for closed bad questions? > Reopening takes a while, usually a few days.... If our goal is to make it as easy as possible for experts to share knowledge, this goes against that goal. ...a lot of these questions are not that important - especially the ones that end up closed. They're small, simple things... I'm not going t... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #290956 |
At any rate, it's probably appropriate to close this as no-repro.... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #290956 |
I see it in the same menu, after the `cloudflareinsights.com` entry. You should too after trusting `codidact.com`. However, I am no longer reproducing the rest of the bug: while `codidact.com` JavaScript is still required to make the widget work (as I would expect), `codidact.org` JavaScript is not. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #290951 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org I use Noscript, so Javascript is blocked by default for new domains for me. As it happens, prior to today I had `codidact.com` (and `jsdelivr.org`) whitelisted, but not `codidact.org`. When I was writing my previous Meta post just now, I found that the tag search/auto-completion (at the bottom... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |