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Question Typo in "Participate" ability page in Abilities Dashboard
Where? - On the page "/abilities/everyone" (Link to Codidact Meta version) What? - Under "What does this ability allow me to do?" subheading, first line. Erroneous part bolded for sake of this post. > This ability allows you to posts 3 top-level posts (questions and articles) a day, and to ...
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3 months ago
Question Tag dropdown appears in front of top nav when scrolling down
Attached below is a self-explanatory GIF of the Edit post page, although the issue exists on the Ask Question page too (please ignore the black bar on the left): GIF When the tag dropdown opens, scrolling down incorrectly makes it appear in front of the top nav. Additional settings: The stic...
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3 months ago
Question Should we change the dashboard layout?
What is it? - Ordering communities by pairing them into groups of 3 based on quantity of categories. The communities which could not be paired with similar communities due to varying quantity of categories can sit at the bottom. Image The right part of the above image is not official, it ...
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3 months ago
Question Subtle change to hide link to non-existent deleted user profiles
When? When looking at search results, or list of posts in general - for e.g. viewing list of [posts tagged [wikipedia]](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags/6176). Here's a screenshot of the mentioned example: Screenshot What? The text displayed says > posted 2y ago by deleted user...
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3 months ago
Answer A: Add support for AsciiDoc syntax
I have some concerns: Complexity - AsciiDoc is unnecessarily complicated. From what I have seen, Codidact runs just fine on Markdown. Even much larger platform Stack Overflow doesn't seem in that much need of it, despite AsciiDoc having more features. Worth - Considering the votes on this f...
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3 months ago
Question Should we directly link to the proposals site for new proposals in the Help Center?
On the Help Center page "How to ask a great question" (This link points to the Codidact Meta version, but this question talks about all the versions of this page in all other communities, too) Under the subheading "Make sure your question is in scope" Second paragraph. > If your question isn...
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3 months ago
Question Why do user mentions incorrectly change color after editing comments?
This is an example of a comment thread featuring a user mention. Screenshot When the comment is edited, the user mention element incorrectly turns red. Screenshot A reload fixes this. Hovering on it shows Screenshot which is false.
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3 months ago
Answer A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed?
Another mention of Codidact Collab - While the user is taking the tour, in the last steps Codidactyl shows a list of all communities, in which Codidact Collab is included (marked in a red rectangle for the sake of this post): Screenshot My reply to Monica Cellio's answer If the way it ...
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3 months ago
Question Broken advertisement templates on Codidact sites
On the advertisement page of Codidact Collab, there are five types of advertisement templates available: 1. Codidact network 2. Community 3. Random posts 4. Specific post 5. Random from Category This specific post is about number 3 (Random posts) and number 5 (Random from Category) "Rand...
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3 months ago
Question Misleading stats in other user's ability page
When looking at the Abilities dashboard of another user and clicking on any ability, for example the curate ability page of a mod looks like (I replaced the actual mod name with `(ModName)` for sake of generalizing question): Screenshot But the stats shown are of the mod, while my stats are tot...
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3 months ago
Answer A: The body of this post is empty
Explanation - When submitting a post with nothing in the body, we get this error: Screenshot But according to this page (formatting stripped): > HTML tags that do not appear on this list will be stripped out and not displayed if they are included in posts or comments. The source code for s...
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3 months ago
Question The body of this post is empty

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3 months ago
Question Pluralization typo in Help Center page "Guidelines for referencing and quoting"
What? - Typo in a Help Center page "Guidelines for referencing and quoting" Where? - In the first paragraph (the erroneous part has been bolded for the sake of this post): > When you're writing a post, referencing and quoting external material is a great way to back up your posts, provide s...
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3 months ago
Question "Remove all items" button for tags doesn't work
What? - Attached below is a self-explanatory GIF of the bug. GIF The cross button, instead of removing all the tags, just shifts the focus to the input box. Where? - New question page (Link to Codidact Meta Q&A version).
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3 months ago
Answer A: Minor suggested edits to old posts
I am the user mentioned in this question. I believe that submitting an edit just for removing or adding a tag is not enough. BUT if you look at those questions, none of them have [discussion], [support], [bug] or [feature-request]. My guess is that at that time these were not required, so so...
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3 months ago
Question Is there a reason to keep the normal logo instead of the community one?
On any page of the Codidact network, one can click on the top-right dropdown button to, well, reveal a dropdown. This dropdown includes a button to sign out and a list of communities. Scrolling down, we see at the bottom: Screenshot Considering that every other community has its own logo ...
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3 months ago
Question Minor typo in Help Center page of "Participate Everywhere" ability
Location - Go to this link or any of the links mentioned under the "Communities" subheading below. You will see two paragraphs under their respective subheadings. Under "How do I earn this ability?" subheading (Erroneous part has been bolded for the sake of this question): > To earn this a...
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3 months ago
Question 404 error produced through "/subscriptions/new"
What is the bug? - Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links. How to reproduce - 1. Go to the homepage. 2. On the right side you will see a tab like this Screenshot 3. Now click on "all new questions" link 4. Leave everything blank and click "Subscribe" Screenshot ...
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3 months ago
Question Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question
Have a look at this Codidact Meta post. It is closed. Scrolling down we can see a UI like so: Answers UI When there are 0 answers, then the option to sort them by score/activity doesn't have any use. Also, it's not like there are going to be new answers anyway since the post is closed. ...
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3 months ago
Question Should we change the footer layout?
Context = The footer of all pages on the Codidact network looks something like this: Codidact footer screenshot Pros - - Looks neat Cons - - As more and more communities emerge and the network grows, this list of "Other Codidact Communities" will extend to bottom even more and there ma...
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3 months ago
Question Buggy text in Cooking site's help center
Where? - The bug appears to be there at a specific help center page of the Cooking site of Codidact: https://cooking.codidact.com/help/how-to-ask What? - There are two occurences of this bug. 1. Under "Make sure your question is in scope" subheading, there is a paragraph like so (only raw tex...
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3 months ago
Question Add a validation checker for website field
Background - One may edit their profile and add information about their website, Twitter and Discord profiles. Issue - But I also noticed that entering just the word "test" in the website field doesn't pose any problems and shows up. I think that such gibberish as a "website" doesn't really...
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3 months ago