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Activity for Karl Knechtel
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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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: hide large images in details tags for easier scanning; improve formatting of warning |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289173 |
Suggested edit: hide large images in details tags for easier scanning; improve formatting of warning (more) |
helpful | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289479 |
Oh, I like that idea as well. Better to remove the redundancy. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289479 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289478 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289476 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289474 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289387 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289271 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289314 |
Post edited: collapse main sections to make it immediately apparent that I see both pros and cons |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289314 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289313 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
Should `status-norepro` be removed, then? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289304 |
Post edited: |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289304 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
I want the raw Markdown/etc. (the actual post source), yes. (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289281 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289279 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289271 |
Post edited: Looks like this only happens in the preview. |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289271 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289257 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289256 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |