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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 fixe...

0 answers  ·  posted 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 netw...

posted 21d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 <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

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Q&A 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 po...

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

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Q&A Spinners don't spin for nested details tags

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

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Q&A 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: <details> <summary> Gory deta...

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

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Q&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, commen...

posted 10d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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.

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 Co...

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

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Q&A 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: I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corre...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 ind...

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

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 intern...

posted 15d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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...

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 <li> tags within the <div> for each diff entry, and join their text with newlines in between. The...

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

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Q&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 fu...

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 initiat...

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

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Q&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...

posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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, pe...

posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 We have: two options for actual abusive use of the site software an option for dupli...

1 answer  ·  posted 13d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 10d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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 content...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A 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...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

Some thoughts: 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 f...

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&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 thi...

posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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