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| Comment | Post #292856 |
> It also sounds like Codidact could simply switch to using Matrix directly rather than building its own chat that interfaces with Matrix. Since it's an open standard this might be worth looking into.
There are [multiple server implementations](https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/) out there, and... (more) |
— | 30 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
Matrix is a chatroom/comms protocol (somewhat like IRC or XMPP). I appreciate their primary focus on the spec, but I'm also using it right now to interface with the Codidact Discord. I can't do all the things in Discord from it, but I can also run most of my other communications out of there, like I ... (more) |
— | 30 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292856 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Poll for chat users and non-chat users I use chat. All things being equal, I would prefer it not to be run by Discord. I'm not going to leave because of that preference,[^1] but a community managed instance of a chat platform[^2] would be more attractive to me than a Discord, Slack, etc. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292855 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Code of Conduct has a variable in its text The Code of Conduct text on all the sites [communities] has some default text that is either supposed to be replaced by string templating or maybe customized. Emphasis in quote block below. > This Code of Conduct applies to all online spaces run by the $EDIT-org-name organization, as well as offic... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
Agreed with Olin.
Maybe one could combine timeframe with last N events. Something like "Last `M` years' positive events, filling backward to `X` positive events if you don't have `X` events in the last `M` years" and then supplement with "Any negative events from last `N` years' _total_ events, ba... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292656 |
You could have a link to a search page with the filters pre-filled. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292300 |
That's neat! Very clever getting a good sense of how successful a flagger has been.
I would change the wording, then. Percent might *technically* be correct,[^1] being a per-100 of the Wilson Score calculation... but it's not used in the way most people have typically encountered it.
[^1]: "Th... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292126 |
Great question. I mean ones where I'd want a different sort order. The only thing I've come up with so far is multi-word names, and it might be a stretch:
- Search term: `tri`
- Want to find: The Great **Tri**choplax
- Ranked ahead: S**tri**ngify
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— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292165 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Abilities progress meter ahead of expected progress I'm confused about the numbers in a progress-tracker for abilities. On Writing, there's a lot of spam. I've flagged a lot of spam. I have (for those who can see) 30 helpful flags. On a whim, I went to the Vote on Holds ability page to see how close I would be to it.[^posts] Here's what's weird. Th... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292126 |
Interesting thought! I like the algorithm, but I want to have a think on counterexamples. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292126 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: User search only finds names which begin with the search term [celtschk][] says in a comment that we could show all relevant results and help the searcher by sorting those results in a useful order: > Another [way] to handle it would be to order the results by how well the search term matches. The exact match, if it exists, should certainly be the top result... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291184 |
Post edited: Consolidate "new-users" tag just used here with "new-user" |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290068 |
Post edited: Add some tags |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291184 |
Suggested edit: Consolidate "new-users" tag just used here with "new-user" (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290068 |
Suggested edit: Add some tags (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291717 |
@celtschk If you transfer that comment to an answer, I'd upvote it. If you don't, I'll make an answer citing you.
I ran into this same user search thing today. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292057 |
I've knocked down the level of the headings on a few of my posts where h1 was used. I'm not enthusiastic about h5 being smaller (14px) than normal text (16px). (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292057 |
If top-level headings are discouraged, you may want to make that clear. Perhaps a warning somewhere when one would be rendered into the output?
My semantic content exposure is kind of old, now, but I was under the impression that heading levels reset inside `<article>` blocks. I don't know if ans... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292005 |
Matrix can also puppet back to Discord in case existing chatters want to stick with that. I don't have a big urgent push for any particular system, but I do know the backwards-compatibility will work there and might be nice. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291717 |
Looks good. Thanks. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291717 |
In the glorious future when CD has 10k+ active users, it might be a hindrance for search results to return all people whose names have a matching substring. That could be lots of extra results to wade through. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291717 |
From the title (and the "prefixes"), I was concerned that searching `trichoplax` would not find you, but it does. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291579 |
On the question list page, there is often a "Last modified by XYZ" on questions where I flagged a bad post. If I click through, that person's name is not on the modification for any of the visible posts. I can infer that there is a removed post, handled by that person, and correlate to my flags. (Obv... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #278008 |
Post edited: causal -> casual. Some other proofreading help. |
— | 7 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #278008 |
Suggested edit: causal -> casual. Some other proofreading help. (more) |
helpful | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Good question. Maybe I've just never found a decent client. I had some CLI thing I don't remember, then Firefox's IRC client (remember that?), and then WeeChat for when I need to. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
> …without understanding why they made the decision in the first place.
[Chesterton's Fence](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence). Very good! (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
Is this a "why" question, or is this a "Let's change it" attempt? You seem to be asking both things, which is awkward: Someone who can answer the "why" probably isn't excited about moving, and someone who would like to move or IRC or Matrix probably doesn't know why Discord was chosen. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291285 |
> - The UX of Discord is poor
I assert this is also true for IRC. Matrix is nice if you can find an appropriate homeserver. I agree with your other points, although I have joined the Discord. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291243 |
Post edited: It's not no-result searches. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291243 |
Aha! You're right! I had just tried `q` (results) and `z` (none), but I didn't examine any further. There's a `serialization` tag, so I can't be right. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291243 |
Post edited: Wild speculation. Monica also found a 2-char |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291243 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Searching tags with a string with more than two characters results in a 500 I suspect it's a 500 if the search is not found in any tags. I can reproduce with a single-char search of `z` on Software. This is wild speculation, but maybe there's some item access that can't deal with a null or empty array of results. Thanks to Monica and Trichoplax's 2-char demos for putting ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291185 |
I misunderstood you, then. Carry on. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291185 |
Codidact gets a bunch of answers, especially in "Writing," that follow this pattern (annotated with footnotes):
> You can make citations by [answer-y stuff written by GPT] as found in **hxxp://example.com/how-to-[^normal]suika game[^spam]-cite-sources[^normal]**. [GPT answer continues]
[^norma... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291177 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Introduce a spam reaction? I'm stealing an idea from trichoplax in the comments: Disable links on posts flagged as spam. There's some potential for abuse here, too,[^abuse] but I suspect it is somewhat unlikely. We can also add an ability based on, say, "5 approved flags and flag-approve-rate > 75%" that enables the automat... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291173 |
Just don't HTML-encode the spaces and any number will collapse into one! :-P (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291153 |
Post edited: Make the list into a table. A couple grammar things. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291153 |
Suggested edit: Make the list into a table. A couple grammar things. (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
This should be an answer. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291108 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Allow completely pseudonymous user accounts I'm not opposed in principle, but I don't think the amount of work is likely worthwhile. I imagine this sets you up for weird bugs far into the future. > - One person can have any number of email addresses. For someone who knows how, it's fairly trivial to set up a throwaway email account which ca... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291030 |
I found the parent tag indicator after Moshi's answer. But it's still good to have the screenshot prominently in an answer. +1 (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290916 |
This would be helpful for ~~us proles~~ _[non-moderators]_ to investigate spammers. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |