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Activity for ArtOfCode
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A: Would there ever be A / B testing? Not in the forseeable future. Building a system to A-B test new features takes time, as does the analysis afterwards. While we're still a small team, it's more effective for us to collect feedback via Meta, make changes, and continue to collect feedback afterwards. This lets us make changes quickly w... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Modular or “microservices” architecture The first question to ask when considering a change of architecture is why? What benefits would a modular architecture bring, and would it outweigh the drawback of having to re-write the entire system? The main reason to make something modular is so that it can be used as separate parts, but if you s... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Vote counts as ratios? This is already how it works. Those red/green bars in post lists are driven by a Wilson score for the post based on the numbers of up and downvotes. Post & answer sorting is also based on these Wilson scores. If you hover over the vote counts on any post, the Wilson score will be displayed in a toolt... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools? As a general rule: yes, for personal use there's no issue with that. Caveats: First & foremost, this is a general rule - if we discover requests or usage that looks like a problem we'll want to know what's going on; CloudFlare sits in front of all the public communities and will take issue wi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Spinners don't spin for nested details tags I've fixed this in the design framework - once the CDN's cache updates, you should see this start working properly. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: What class attributes can we (usefully) use in HTML tags? Here's the list of supported tags and attributes, pulled straight from the current code: ```ruby self.tags = %w[a p span b i em strong hr h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 blockquote img strike del code pre br ul ol li sup sub section details summary ins table thead tbody tr th td... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance. This is something we either can't fix, or can't fix without significant effort. It's been a little while since I last checked what browser tooltips can do, but one thing they can't do is render HTML entities. That's up to your browser, not up to us. The way to fix it would be to use a custom tooltip,... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: 1. Outline Codidact's complaints process? 2. What public bodies oversee Codidact? You have a slight misunderstanding here, I'm afraid. Companies like Lloyds Bank and British Airways are both part of highly regulated industries (banking and aviation). Those industries have their own specific set of regulations, regulators, ombudsmen, professional bodies, etc, which often require co... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: A feature-request status page Codidact is small, as is our team. Our development team is even smaller. That means that time, especially dev time, is a very precious resource that we have little of. Something like this requires a fairly significant time investment both in development and in keeping up to date; I'm not convinced th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Images fail to load when previewed or saved Should be fixed now - the arcanities of nginx, ActiveStorage, and AWS conspired against us on this migration, but they've now each been shown a roll of duct tape and told firmly to keep themselves in line. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Changes to the Codidact Privacy Policy We've made a small update to our privacy policy related to a third-party library. While editing, we also restored a link that had been accidentally left out of the original document, causing some confusion. In order to accept donations, we use a third-party payment system, Stripe. When we added t... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: Assets return 404 [status-bydesign] There is a current known issue with the icons not responding to clicks: see this meta post. For the moment, click the whitespace around the icon to open your notifications - we're working on getting this fixed. Any assets under `/assets/community` are community-specific CSS or... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: MathJax in profiles displays differently depending on community I'm not sure there's a lot we can do about this, other than potentially adding a warning if MathJax is enabled. It's hard to reliably detect MathJax in a post, and even harder to reliably remove it - so disabling or content-triggered warnings aren't realistically doable. We could add a simple warn... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Potentially misleading plus symbol with "follow new" link Some ideas: Two buttons. Primary "Start new comment thread" outlined blue, secondary "Follow new comment threads" outlined gray". or Same as previous, but the primary now has a plus icon and the secondary a bell icon or (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Main and subheadings are almost the same size, but not in the edit preview [status-norepro] If you use your browser's Inspect Element feature, you should be able to find the computed font sizes on each. On all browsers on my end I see h1 as 27.2px and h2 as 25px. Admittedly that's not much difference! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Details tag requires an internal blank line to render markdown [status-bydesign] In so far as there is a Markdown spec, this is part of it: you can't mix HTML and Markdown. If you're formatting using HTML tags, Markdown parsers will generally ignore Markdown in the same block (might only apply to block-level Markdown - can't remember off the top of my head). ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Codidact has moved to new servers Ever since we got set up with bank accounts, one of our priorities for our new funding has been to migrate our servers. For context, all Codidact communities are currently running on a single server provided by one of our volunteers at their own expense, and have been since the start. Now that we hav... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Does the community have any mechanism to tackle serial (emotional) downvoting? Yes. There is some tooling built into the software to help identify serial voting, and when identified the Codidact team can remove the votes in question and reset rep counts, and moderators can of course suspend offending users. Codidact developers can also run manual queries in the database for ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Donations updates and new features Thank you to everyone who has made donations to support Codidact already! We are grateful for your help and your confidence in us. We'll be reporting on how we're putting those donations to use - we've got to get some details sorted first, but improved server reliability is a top goal. We also w... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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The Codidact Foundation: now with added bank accounts! Ever since we formed the Codidact Foundation almost a year ago, we’ve been trying to get our financial situation sorted. As a community run non-profit, our intention has always been to avoid the shenanigans and profiteering of for-profit companies, and to be as open and honest as possible with the pe... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Link to deleted user's post visible on front page but post returns 500; breaks category Atom feed These bugs are related but slightly different. Both should now be fixed. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Implement reactions for top level posts This is already possible with the current implementation. You don't see reactions on questions at the moment because questions are limited to only question-specific reaction types, and no communities (yet) have any reactions set up as question-specific. If we want reactions like these for questions, ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Closing Articles While I can see the point here, I also don't see much benefit in allowing articles to be closed. The only function closing has is to prevent a post being answered. That's all it does; it doesn't de-list the post or change it in any other way. Given that articles don't have answers, that makes it a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Lost Reputation Apparently there was a bug in the rep recalc script. Still not entirely sure why, but I've solved it and re-run the script. Rep counts should be correct now. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Voting fraud on posts As the moderator who reviewed your flag said, downvoting is not necessarily voting fraud. Anyone is free to use their downvotes as they see fit; it's only when someone starts voting on the person not on the content that it becomes voting fraud. If you have something to indicate that voting fraud may ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Date Display formatting > When you hover over a date on SE it shows you the full date time stamp which is a reasonable compromise. We do the same thing here. Hover over most relative timestamps ("x ago") and you'll get an exact ISO 8601-ish formatted date-time. If you find one that doesn't, please let us know! (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Limit of flag comment 65535 bytes (the default length for the `TEXT` type in MySQL). Needless to say, if people start abusing that, it'll get restricted. 😝 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Restrictions on usernames I've declined this, for the same reason that I've declined other similar Unicode-related "bugs" before. They're not really bugs, just a product of how easy Unicode is to abuse. The solution: don't do this. Expect your username to be reset to something not-unhelpful if you do. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: "forgot email address" system If you forget your email address, contact support and we'll be able to assist. Allowing people to guess the email address for an account is not something that can be done securely and in a way that protects user privacy. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: "Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes Fix pushed. When you save a post, we don't take what you typed into the textbox and convert it to markdown on the server, if we can avoid it (we still have to if the client has JS disabled). There's this live preview below the textbox where the HTML has already been calculated for us, so we might ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists I thought we did this already, so I had a look. Turns out we were using the wrong link to check for duplicates, which I've updated. You should find you only get one notification per comment thread when there are any number of new comments now. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact? This is not something we support, technically or ethically. You're more than welcome to promote content on Codidact communities elsewhere, but you must follow the rules of wherever it is you're posting; we're not in the business of circumventing rules for our own gain. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Is it possible to delete account community-wise? This can be done by a developer. Ping us an email to support@ and someone will handle this for you. At present, this will mean that any content associated with your account on that site will be unlinked from your account and attributed to System, which will not be reversible later. We do have some de... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Shouldn't the Mobile Sign In also be removed from the profile page when you are on the phone? This is by design. You might already be signed in on your phone or tablet, but what if you want to sign in on another one? We drop this from the top menu because it's less likely if you're already on a mobile device, but there should still always be a path to access this. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: A letter didn't bold in suggested edit page This is displaying fine in all browser tests that I've been able to run. Given that others are reporting this fine too, I'm inclined to suggest there's something janky with your system, rather than with Codidact. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: MathJax isn't highlighted when selected Unfortunately, this isn't something we have control over. It's down to the MathJax library and how it renders the math. If you look at the page HTML, by default it renders math by putting every character in a CSS `::before` psuedo-element, which aren't selectable; likewise, if you change the renderer... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Markdown does not always seem to work If you mix HTML and Markdown, you have to clearly separate them, which means leaving a clear blank line break between HTML and Markdown sections. This works: ```plain Bold text ``` This doesn't: ```plain Bold text ``` and likewise for any other tags. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: send mail for new community We don't do a whole lot on the email notifications front, really. The only emails we send automatically from the application are account emails, plus any subscriptions you create. Beyond that, we don't really do emails — both because it takes quite a bit of developer time to set up, which is a ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Questions themselves are not the first Codidact hits on Google All our posts are indexed and have applicable meta tags in the page. Search Console confirms that we are showing up in Google search results. Our biggest problem is our still-small size: the more inbound links there are to pages on Codidact sites, the more Google likes us, but inbound links develo... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: I cannot post PHP on CoDidact software development So this is Cloudflare that's blocking you, not any part of Codidact software. I've found the requests, and it looks like Cloudflare thinks the code you're posting is malicious and has blocked it. I've tweaked the rules it's using, so you should be able to post now. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Law (and legal advice) I'm declining this one. Allowing unqualified armchair lawyers to purport to give legal advice is a recipe for a legal migraine, which is not something we're able or willing to deal with at least until we have a legal team, and possibly not even then. Sorry, but this one just isn't workable. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Add colors for font on all websites? This is, technically, already possible. I'm not going to point out how for the same reasons that the request was declined on Stack Exchange: it's far too open to abuse, and (more importantly) it doesn't play nicely with accessibility. Exercise for the reader! (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: We should delete all old imported content. I broadly agree, with two main caveats, one about what to delete, and one about how we go about it. By "what to delete", I'm looking at your point that: > We may lose a few stray locally-grown answers to old questions I haven't done the queries to confirm this, but I suspect that number is r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Recent feature changes to the Codidact software December 2021 - Show when a post has been edited on the post itself - Only render HTML tags that we support in post previews - Allow access to deleted post histories only if the user can see the deleted post - The react button is removed if there are no enabled reactions November 2021 - Fla... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: "Empty" posts can be created with invisible Unicode characters I've fixed this for a bunch more of these characters, but there are endless numbers of Unicode characters that can be abused to do things like this. Solution: don't do this. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Where’s my suggested edit? Your edit is to a post on Software Meta, but you're looking at the queue for Software Q&A. If you look at the edit queue for Meta, you'll find it's in there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Duplicate "Sign out" buttons on mobile I'm not going to call this by design because it wasn't actually intentional, but it does actually make sense. The sign out button on desktop is in the site switcher, so it's consistent to have it there on mobile as well. On the other hand, first-time mobile users are more likely to look for it in the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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The Abilities rollout (or, how not to do deployments) We recently deployed the Abilities system, replacing our old and rusty reputation-based privileges system with a shiny new granular, activity-based system for granting abilities. We spent months working on the system and we’re pleased to finally have it up and working – but the process of getting the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Community-promoted network posts have arrived We've had a number of requests for a "Hot Network Questions"-like feature, promoting good content from around the network. That's more complex than it sounds on the surface, because there's no easy automatic way to determine what "good content" looks like, especially when all our communities are diff... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: No button to edit or suggest edits on articles Fixed, thanks! The system was actually working exactly as designed, but articles were marked as not being publicly editable. I've flipped that over again now, so you should see links as normal. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |