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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #293636 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278394. (more) |
— | about 6 hours ago |
| Comment | Post #293570 |
Sounds like a good discussion to have here, yes. Thanks! (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293570 |
There are no post previews on Mathematics Codidact *because* doing it by character count can lead to some [very, very tall entries in the list](https://math.codidact.com/posts/287515). Being able to specify the limit spatially instead of by character count would allow that to be turned back on. (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293538 | Initial revision | — | 20 days ago |
| Question | — |
How should the "all communities" profile tab handle deleted profiles on other communities? I just noticed that on the user profile page, the "All Communities" tab lists all communities where there is a profile, including deleted profiles. If a non-moderator follows a link to a deleted profile it's not a 404; we have a "this user is deleted" page. Most of the time we don't link to deleted... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293486 |
That's a good point. When we created this section of the help, we thought we'd be including documentation that could be more sensitive, like advice on detecting sockpuppets. But nothing that's there now is sensitive and I'm not aware of efforts in the more-sensitive direction, so maybe we should j... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292812 |
Post edited: not so much declined as "hard to do better so we'll just live with it" |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293485 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Link to moderator help pages is presented to non-moderators This feels like it should be a simple matter of an ability check, like we do in many other places when deciding what to show to a specific user. However, this particular link is coming from an ability description that is seeded in the database itself -- our code simply renders the HTML it's given, a... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293425 |
Post edited: sort of like https://xkcd.com/859/ |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #290833 |
Post edited: finally pushed that sucker out of cache (we think)! |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293428 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Is there a reason to keep the normal logo instead of the community one for Community Proposals in the communities dropdown? We had fixed this a while back, then tried clearing the right place in the cache which fixed it on some communities but not others (weird!), and today after a deploy that required a server restart, it seems to be fixed everywhere now. I still don't know why it happened that way, but I'll mark this a... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293426 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proposal and design for temporary blocking of new user links (anti-spam) We now have a couple anti-spam measures in place: - In user profiles, when the user has not yet earned Participate Everywhere, we do not render links to anonymous viewers. Logged-in users still see them, but there's no public propagation. - For posts, if there are active spam flags, we do some... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293230 |
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— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291174 |
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— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293425 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Introduce a spam reaction? Combining several suggestions here: if a post has active (pending) spam flags, then we take the following actions: - For anonymous users (people not logged in), we don't render the links. - For logged-in users, we add a notice to the post: "Possible spam: this post has pending flags for spam. Be... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293423 |
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— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #288948 |
Post edited: addressed by making links generic, not by modifying profile text |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293270 |
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— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293424 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: More visibly non-profit We've fixed this by fixing the underlying issue that made this change not as trivial as it first seemed. That text was, it turned out, baked into our code -- fine for us, but not appropriate for other deployments. We've moved this text into a global (admin) setting, and then updated that text her... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293423 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proposal: remove Twitter from profiles We have pushed a change that replaces the website and Twitter fields on the profile with three generic label/value pairs. These are shown as "extra fields" on the profile after the profile text. Values that are links (beginning with `http`) are rendered as links; anything else is rendered as text. ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290833 |
Want to see something strange? It's right on some communities and not others... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290833 |
This is very strange. The site setting for the logo points to https://codidact.com/community-assets/proposals/logo-large.png, which is the correct value, and the code for the drop-down consults the site setting, and yet... it's wrong. :-( (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
My first language was BASIC, too. That pain never completely goes away. :-)
Some sort of visual interface would be great, drag&drop or even +/- controls. I don't know how hard that is, but this isn't the only place where we want that sort of interface. (Being able to reorder the communities you... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293279 |
I'd like to find a way to protect the general content (that the software depends on for links) while still allowing local extension. For example, the formatting page is linked from the post editor. A few communities use MathJax or code syntax highlighting, and it would be great to be able to link t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
I worked on a large documentation project that didn't have an external table of contents but instead used this kind of numbering. We started things out with intervals of 10 (10, 20, 30...) instead of just 1, 2,3..., and that left us room to insert things (and then insert things between the inserted ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293279 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Help page: call for improvement suggestions Identify and protect key slugs Some help topics are linked to from within the software. For example, the search page links to the topic for advanced search, formatting help is linked when creating a post, and I think there's a warning about images without "alt" text that links to that topic. I t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293277 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293278 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Help page: call for improvement suggestions Clearer distinction between Guidance and Site Info (Even if we make the main page directly editable as suggested in another answer, there'll be a default for communities that don't want to rework things themselves. This suggestion applies to that default, or to the current way of doing things if ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
I don't mean putting numbers in the titles; that would be distracting. If you edit one of your help topics, you'll see a field labelled "Order" that takes a number. That's the number I'm talking about.
I like your suggestion of dispensing with the categories and auto-numbering and letting mods e... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293277 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Help page: call for improvement suggestions Ordering within category Topics can be ordered within a category if you edit them to add sequence numbers. In the absence of explicit sequencing, they appear to be alphabetical by title. For the "default" (baked-in) topics, we should seed these with sequence numbers so they come out in a logic... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
Chrome on MacOS. I just updated Chrome last night (after this happened), so I don't have a specific version number. (Pretty recent; I stay on top of Chrome updates.) I'll make a note if I see this again. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293214 |
Oh, I hadn't realized that this worked either! Thanks for testing, and I agree we should adjust that message. (I think we wrote the message first, then made it redirect, then didn't notice the message needed an edit.) (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293258 |
Whoops! Fix deployed, and we'll look at how to improve our testing. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293258 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293214 |
We went with this (with a link to sign in). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293213 |
Post edited: we now give a warning and a sign-in link as suggested in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/293213/293214#answer-293214 |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293230 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #39539 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293230 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Recent feature changes to the Codidact software February 2025 - User profiles now have three generic places for external links, replacing the previously-baked-in "website" and "Twitter" fields. January 2025 - For users without the Participate Everywhere ability, links in profiles are not shown to anonymous users. They are shown to logged... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293228 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |