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Activity for Karl Knechtel
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| Edit | Post #289793 | Initial revision | — | 4 days ago |
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I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it 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 fixes to be answerable, and thought that I might not be able to get to it for a while, so I opted to use thi... (more) |
— | 4 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289744 | Initial revision | — | 7 days ago |
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How should we approach non-English content? 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 policy actually requiring this. I've noticed that a fair amount of friction has already occurred - especially ... (more) |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289743 | Initial revision | — | 7 days ago |
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Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers 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 are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps... (more) |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289730 |
Post edited: Copy-edit for clarity; improve title |
— | 8 days ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289730 |
Suggested edit: Copy-edit for clarity; improve title (more) |
helpful | 8 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289722 |
Post edited: attempt to clarify this a bit more |
— | 9 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289722 | Initial revision | — | 9 days ago |
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A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more Suppose we have a post author A and a comment author B. Here's a simple proposal for addressing the problem. When B writes the comment, the UI offers B a checkbox to "allow A to propose resolution" to the issue. If that option was chosen, when the system notifies A about the comment, it indic... (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289721 |
Post edited: |
— | 9 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289721 | Initial revision | — | 9 days ago |
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Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess was correct, and I got a comment in reply to that effect (along with the author editing the post). I... (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289716 | Initial revision | — | 10 days ago |
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A: Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response 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, comments are the only way that ordinary users (without at least the "vote on holds" ability) can signal a real... (more) |
— | 10 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289715 |
Post edited: Cross-link where I made the same point before |
— | 10 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289715 | Initial revision | — | 10 days ago |
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A: Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons Before I found out about the explicit closure reasons in the interface, this is the proposed set I was working on: Duplicate Description: self-explanatory. Commentary: here is still an open question about what to do with near-duplicates and "related" questions. Misplaced or off topic Des... (more) |
— | 10 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289687 |
Post edited: Update in light of new information; rework into separate proposals for flagging vs. closure |
— | 10 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289697 |
This seems to be a consequence of the browser's semantics differing from the ones intended in context. Presumably, the real rule is that the field contents get saved when it *loses focus*, which would also happen when the tab (or even the entire window, or browser) is closed directly. I imagine it wo... (more) |
— | 12 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
Yes, but I hadn't read it quite carefully enough. That said, it still doesn't offer quite the level of detail I was hoping for. I might try to be more precise about this in a separate post, once it bothers me enough again. (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #279429 |
I can see that the question you linked is closed that way, but I don't see anything corresponding in the flag interface. This relates to [my recent post](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289687), naturally. Regardless of what the actual close reasons are, it seems appropriate that the flagging interfa... (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
I do have that in mind, wasn't really sure how to phrase it - especially since others might have novel ideas about different statuses a post could have besides "closed". (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
As a separate matter, I would more generally appreciate it if the "abilities" interface were more explicit and forthcoming about what people with a particular ability can do, and how things look different for them on the site. (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289687 | Initial revision | — | 13 days ago |
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Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog > The dialog has a header which reads "Why does this post require moderator attention?"; the options are "it's spam", "it's rude", "needs author's attention", "is a duplicate", and "other reason" ... (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289686 | Initial revision | — | 13 days ago |
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A: Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason? I generally don't think this is a good idea. As you note, status-completed tags work fine for noting that a Meta process has run its course. If such a process has run its course - why not use the same post for post-mortem discussion? For main-space questions, if a question is about a problem that ... (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #279429 |
I can't see any evidence of this close reason still existing. Did it get removed at some point? (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289585 |
Please do not edit posts to offer a fundamentally different opinion, and especially please do not use the edit redaction feature to hide old versions when doing so. The purpose of redaction is to avoid leaking private information (e.g. if someone posts a private API key or login credentials in a code... (more) |
— | 14 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289672 | Initial revision | — | 15 days ago |
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A: Let's improve how we handle duplicates Psychology In sum: I think the social problems here have more to do with communication than they do with policy, and I'm extremely wary of softening policy in order to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. To be fair, sometimes people should feel judged for posting a duplicate question - they clearl... (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289668 | Initial revision | — | 15 days ago |
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A: Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful 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 internal quality metrics; at best we can get them to care about how many times a post is linked internally, and ... (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Edit | Post #282292 |
Post edited: copy-editing to try to improve clarity and quality of English prose and remove noise |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
It's where there would otherwise be a button that says "Ask Question", in the top-right. (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289600 |
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— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289600 | Initial revision | — | 21 days ago |
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Discoverability for the new Proposals site 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 Communities" in the standard page footer. (Since this footer also always lists the current community, mayb... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289476 |
As a stop-gap to avoid the issue of `software.cd` being an invalid link: the link can be broken by adding an empty, semantically useless HTML tag after the period - for example, `software.<a/>cd` produces software.<a/>cd. (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282292 |
Suggested edit: copy-editing to try to improve clarity and quality of English prose and remove noise (more) |
helpful | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
To be totally blunt, OP: if you are coming up with phrases like "which to me makes no sense while your community is already scattered to the cosmic winds.", then your grasp of English is **perfectly good enough** for writing on a Q&A site. I can't take "this isn't my first language" seriously as an e... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289596 | Initial revision | — | 21 days ago |
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A: Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week > 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 network of (assuming I got my dev console magic right) 181 communities plus its global Meta. The scope of th... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289474 |
Well, of course the community might also decide things that are different from what I imagine :) But if fundamentally the same question comes up in multiple contexts, I would rather be able to reuse an explanation as far as it actually suits - much as I would prefer to be able to reuse code. Logic is... (more) |
— | 25 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289569 |
What exactly do you mean by a "Hyde account"? I think this answer would be much clearer explicitly spelling that out. (I assume this is a [literary reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde), but in my experience it's much better to be explicit and not metaphorica... (more) |
— | 25 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: hide large images in details tags for easier scanning; improve formatting of warning |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289470 |
Of course, we have an easy way to quantify "close to 50/50" and "majority": by setting a threshold in terms of the Wilson score already used for sorting. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289173 |
Suggested edit: hide large images in details tags for easier scanning; improve formatting of warning (more) |
helpful | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289479 |
Oh, I like that idea as well. Better to remove the redundancy. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289479 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Improved layout for individual search results Currently, when I look at search results, or the list of posts on my user profile, I get results that look like: Example I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corresponding question on the bottom line. This is how I'm accustomed to it working from SE, and it... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289478 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Who should be able to create new tags? Automatically collect new tags for review As Codidact communities grow, I can see a need to transition smoothly from the norms of a "new" site to those with open, wide participation. Initially, people should be trusted to create new tags, but eventually there will be a need to nip them in the bud.... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289476 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Support shortcut links to Codidact communities / categories I would like to be able to write e.g. `[software.cd]` and have it generate a link to https://software.codidact.com with a friendly title. Currently, it becomes a link based on the actual text contents, surrounded by ordinary square brackets: [software.cd]. (This seems to actually check the TLD; softw... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289474 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Should we be able to tag answers? Examining precedent The Stack Exchange network has the core of this feature: you can write `[tag:tag-name]` in the body of a question or answer to get a button (really an `a` tag, just like here) that works just like the tags underneath a post. Tags that are specially marked on the site, still... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289387 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Flag details vs. comments 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 indication of a length limit. The interface also claims that such details will be added to the post as a... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289350 |
I thought everyone could already make new tags by just... typing in a not-yet-existing tag and applying it to a new post. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289147 |
It really shouldn't be a sort - that just makes no sense. "Native" for posts is a binary property. First off, you can really only partition by that, not properly sort. Second, someone who chooses this option is probably only interested in native posts - possibly interested only in imported posts, but... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289340 |
[Relevant](https://software.codidact.com/posts/289253) re "If a community considers them poor form, the community can probably discourage them in the same ways it encourages or discourages other behaviors.". (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
The behaviour you describe (and which I just confirmed now) is surprising and awkward enough that I'd call it straight out a bug. People shouldn't have to take other (potentially long) answers into consideration in order to have to figure out how to format their own answer. I see no good use case for... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289314 |
Well, it's more to do with embedded HTML than the Markdown after all ;) I've been picking up these techniques from other posts and more or less just hoping they work properly together. I've filed a couple bugs along the way - in particular, the [centering of the H2 titles is not intentional](https://... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Nowadays, when a "public API" is being discussed for a website, it should be assumed to mean an HTTP (ideally REST-compliant) API unless explicitly marked otherwise. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
FWIW, Microsoft offers what I found to be an excellent reference guide for API design: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design. The arguments are simple and clear, and I found myself consistently agreeing with them. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289271 |
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| Edit | Post #289314 |
Post edited: collapse main sections to make it immediately apparent that I see both pros and cons |
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| Edit | Post #289314 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Indicate stale reactions based on user activity Argument against Quite simply, none of the available reactions has a clear and pressing need for such a marking. "Works for me" can be directly contradicted The only good reason to mark a "works for me" reaction as "stale" is because the solution is now obsolete - and there is already ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289313 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: A way to prohibit creating certain tags. Some thoughts: 1. If e.g. profanity in tags is becoming an issue, that should definitely be dealt with, perhaps with a regex filter. (If a community runs into the Scunthorpe problem this way, a failed tag creation could be discussed on the Community meta and a valid tag whitelisted by a moderator.... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
As someone who could be accused of being an expert in at least one thing: the tiresome thing about questions from newbies isn't the difficulty level of the material, nor the volume of questions: it's the *presentation*. Tagging a question to say "hey, this is a newbie question from a newbie!" would b... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
I don't see anything in the EE meta post's specific guidelines that would really prohibit the tag `voltage`, and I don't see how the principle "tags should not be a keyword list" derives from those guidelines, and I'm not entirely sure why it's a problem to tag in a "keyword" way - I mean, if it help... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
Oh, it was just a one-off task to back up an edit history for something I already posted. In the future I plan to have a workflow where I save things locally first, so it won't be a problem anyway.
That said, I can definitely see the utility of such an API in general and I would definitely encour... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
Should `status-norepro` be removed, then? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289304 |
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| Edit | Post #289304 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Issues with copying post source from revision history As a workaround, it's possible to write code in the browser console to iterate over the `` tags within the `` for each diff entry, and join their text with newlines in between. The page renders empty space with empty ``s. I was able to extract the text I wanted (I think) - each revision, as separa... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
I want the raw Markdown/etc. (the actual post source), yes. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
I am using Firefox 115.0.2 on Mint 20.3. I can't get *intervening empty* (i.e. blank) lines to copy regardless of what is selected. Single newlines are preserved, but multiple newlines seem to collapse to a single newline. This is inconvenient for me because of the extra lines I had to add in order t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289281 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: How to edit a post for small modifications without affecting the visibility of other posts? Maybe when our communities are much larger I share the others' concerns about getting fresh eyes on edits to avoid abuse (or even just errors that would motivate a re-edit). As things stand, I think the concern about "drawing away attention" is greatly overstated. I'm generally willing to look at ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289279 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Issues with copying post source from revision history When I try to copy and paste text out of a revision history for a question or answer, I notice that: Blank lines are not preserved If I copy the entire text of a revision, the entire thing will also be indented by four spaces on each line, and have two blank lines added on each end. (Skipping e... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289271 |
Post edited: Looks like this only happens in the preview. |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289271 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Trying to use Markdown formatting on detail-section labels causes unexpected centered alignment in preview 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: ``` Gory details that are incredibly shocking Ha, fooled you! ``` produces: Gory details that are incredibly shocking Ha, f... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289257 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Can I please ask questions from the search page? 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. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289192 |
Aside from the feature itself, I quite like this style of announcing individual features (things too small to make a blog post about) by presenting the use case as a question. It feels much nicer than having an announcement up top and a user base debating how to "answer" it. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289256 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Should we display the number of views? View counts are a measure of the importance of a post to the site. A question that's viewed a lot should be prioritized by curators, because it's likely to be viewed proportionately often in the future. They need to have this information to act on it, so I'm in favour of displaying it. It's especi... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289239 |
Post edited: Add reference per trichoplax's comment |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289239 |
Post edited: fix typo |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289239 |
Post edited: add yellow is-warning example |
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| Edit | Post #289247 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Spinners don't spin for nested details tags MRE: ``` Outer Outer text Inner Inner text ``` Which produces: Outer Outer text Inner Inner text When I click to expand the outer details section, the chevron spins from pointing right to downward, as expected, and the header for the inner section appears. The inner sect... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289239 |
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| Edit | Post #289239 |
Post edited: improve cuisine |
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| Edit | Post #289239 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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What class attributes can we (usefully) use in HTML tags? Following up on Markup documentation? and What html tags can we use in posts?: I see that the site supports `` tags in posts, and that these can have a `class` attribute. Recently I saw an answer on Software that uses these for an impressive visual effect: code examples with lightly shaded red ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289230 |
Yes, this makes sense. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289230 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Show post preview beside the editing field rather than below Discourse forum software has a neat feature whereby the post preview appears beside the input field. The post submission form pops up as an overlay to the main view of the current thread, showing two text areas side by side - the input field and an interactive (because their Markdown offers access to... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289225 |
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| Edit | Post #289225 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: What is the relationship between Codidact and TopAnswers? 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 initiative. There is no reason a priori to expect any kind of correspondence between SE sites and CD communitie... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289111 |
Individual Codidact communities, along with their names, have no relationship or necessary equivalency with anything on Stack Exchange. Stack Overflow has a "special" name - where most SE sites are just Something (dot) Stack Exchange - because it came first. The initial community was created by and f... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
Does CSS offer some mechanism to output computed values and easily turn them into new CSS? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
Aside from making things easier for people who are set up for / comfortable with overriding CSS, this proof of concept looks surprisingly good for so few lines of code. That makes it seem like implementing the feature properly would be less work than originally anticipated. I think the main thing I'd... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
Related to the issue of allowing spaces in tag names in the first place: people coming from Elsewhere will be confused that typing a space after a tag name doesn't attempt to use/create the tag and that an Enter key press is needed instead. If we decide to keep things that way, then that gets rid of ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289190 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Linking to posts with anchor text is too hard 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 part of my workflow on SE sites was right-clicking the title of a page to open it in a new tab so I c... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |