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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #287650 |
This is a [known bug](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287466) with a workaround: click in the white area below the number/text instead of directly on the icons. It's aggravating and we have a fix in process.
I didn't close this as a duplicate because of the part at the end. We don't have another ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287649 |
That's a good point. I've submitted a [PR](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/929) to change this. For the last label, I went with "confirm new password" to lead with the imperative verb; I'm told this is a little easier for people to understand if English isn't their first language and might ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
@#53890 I think you're on to something. The [database schema](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/blob/develop/db/schema.rb#L408) says that the posts table has columns for both "body" and "body_markdown". I'm guessing that we save the HTML to speed up rendering, but I'm not sure. If so, it would ma... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287624 |
@#53196 thanks for letting me know. I remember threads just plain disappearing when the feature first showed up, but maybe I just didn't know where to look for them. I've avoided threads since then because of that. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
Ah, in-page panel versus link -- thanks! I've tried to capture all this in a bug report here: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/923. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287619 |
Thanks for the report. We did have this issue before and it was [fixed](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/192), but it looks like something has broken it again. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
The dashboard and mobile sign-on widgets also have icons but do not have the bug. Are those icons actually characters in some font and not images? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
Thanks for all the debugging help, @#53890! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287573 |
@#53890 if Art's changed fixed this, please let us know (a flag is good) and we'll mark it status-completed. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
@#53890 we deploy from `develop`, but after a change gets made in co-design it then needs to propagate to qpixel and then be deployed, and I'm not sure where that stands.
@ArtOfCode tonight I noticed that this bug *doesn't* occur with the mod menu; I clicked on the word "mod" rather than under it ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287549 |
Sounds unrelated, then -- thanks for checking! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287549 |
Wow, that's weird. Thanks for the report.
I don't know if this is related, but I've sometimes noticed, only on Meta, that (on desktop at ~1200px) the logo gets very large and flushing my browser cache fixes it. I've never noticed this on any other community. So first thing for us to check is wh... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287545 |
I thought we had a "why Codidact when SO exists?" question; maybe we do and I'm failing to find it. Meanwhile, here are some related non-duplicates: [The Codidact Vision](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276296) (jump down to "Codidact is not an SE clone"), [How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Ex... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287529 |
Can you edit to add more information about the types of questions that might fit here? Science, regulatory, economic, others? Thanks. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287461 |
Sorry about the ambiguity; I've edited. We had a design idea for a much more dynamic and interactive preview; we haven't done that yet, but figured we could at least add the static post previews. They're configurable; if a community wants them to be shorter (or gone), we can do that. Best place fo... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
I agree that's a problem (and from another comment thread, it looks like a dev knows how to fix it). The problem happens if you click on the icon, but if you click in the whitespace below it, the control works (shows you the inbox, communities, etc). I think from your post that you've already figur... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287463 |
Thanks for the suggestion! Edited. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287475 |
I like the unified look, and I agree the icons make it easier to spot at a glance. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287469 |
Sorry for the too-terse changelog entry! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
I think it's a safe bet that if it affects any post it affects all of them; this is rendering code, nothing community-specific about it. I just don't remember them looking like this in the past, and now I can't remember when (or if) that was the case. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
That looks like a regression. I'm _pretty_ sure that footnotes used to display properly in single brackets in posts. The editor preview is sometimes different (something about the client-side markdown library versus the final rendering, I think). Does anybody else remember footnotes having single ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287021 |
I realize that this is a bug report and the other question is a support request, but the result of the support request was acknowledging the bug, so I went ahead and marked it as a dupe so that when it gets fixed there'll be one place to update, not two. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287346 |
On the help, I meant that we could add the HTML workaround, since Markdown doesn't support it natively, if that would be helpful. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287346 |
We're using CommonMark and whatever it supports, but this might be a good thing to add to the [formatting help](https://meta.codidact.com/help/formatting). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287322 |
Comments don't have to be long in character count in order to be long in "height" on the screen -- depends on what's in there. A few lines of code (which happens on Software Dev, Power Users, or Code Golf) can make a comment that exceeds the editor viewport. Consider mentioning that use case in the... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
I assume the folks on Code Golf would have better ideas about what to call the two close reasons. Each community can edit close reasons to suit its needs; we just need to make it possible. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
@#53890 I was imagining that Code Golf would define something like "completed" (requires link) and "done"; I'll edit the comment to make that clearer. The first one would use the duplicate _mechanism_, but it doesn't have to be called "duplicate".
The code already supports cross-category duplicat... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Here's the [GitHub change request for per-post-type close reasons](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/911), with some proposed UI. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287315 |
Thanks for this investigation. That sounds plausible, and I agree it's confusing. I've filed https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/909. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
Maybe consider using 2 and 3, skipping 1 entirely? If the usual semantics are that a page had one h1 (which is the title of the question), then using 2 and 3 in the body of a post doesn't seem wrong to me. A little odd to start with `##`, but what the reader (or screen-reader) will see should still... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
I was writing an answer based on the original question and this answer while you were editing. @#8045, please see the suggestions in my answer. I, too, could *barely* tell there was a difference, and only because the word "heading" is in all of them. The difference between 2 and 3 is huge, though,... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283928 |
With filters (currently under development), there's another use case: filtering out posts that have been "resolved". For the Code Golf sandbox that's duplicates pointing to the actual challenges or withdrawn challenges. For other uses of articles it could mean things that have been superseded, are ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287145 |
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next update. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287129 |
Someone looked into fixing this and discovered it's already fixed in a version that hasn't been deployed here yet. Marking status-planned to reflect that. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287130 |
My guess (haven't checked with someone who can confirm yet) is that profile descriptions are posts and posts have the restriction. For a question, answer, article, or other post type, a minimum length makes sense. I'm guessing that profiles inherited that -- an effect of design and not a specific d... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287129 |
How bizarre. I can't imagine that's intentional. Thanks for letting us know. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287128 |
Not intentional; I think it's just not a case anyone thought about. The _editor_ imposes a minimum length; the default profile text has never been edited, so it doesn't trigger that. We should fix this -- while a post in a community shouldn't be able to be empty, your profile is yours to use -- nor... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287058 |
Pretty sure it's the latter. We added code blocks to support Software Dev, and maybe blockquotes were part of that. I don't recall lists coming up, so I think it's "never really thought about it", not deliberate. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287046 |
The current behavior is confusing, yes. If the viewer can see deleted posts I think we should link to the deleted answer (which has a notice that it's deleted). If the viewer *can't* see deleted posts (the usual case), we should show something like "the linked post has been deleted so we're showing... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287036 |
That should say "Posts", yes. I thought this would be a trivial string edit that I could go ahead and fix. Found the line of code, and... it's being constructed in a way that I don't quite understand yet because I am a Ruby newbie, so I need to learn a little more first (or someone else will fix it... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287031 |
Someone is working on changes that we believe will fix this too. Thanks for the report. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287032 |
There are a couple of in-progress efforts to improve search, [newer](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/834) and [older](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/428). I have hopes that one of these will succeed, hence tagging status-planned. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287011 |
You know, I had somehow missed that "activity" wasn't there. Oops. I've filed https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/894; I can't tell if it's an easy client-side change or a harder backend change, but with luck someone else can answer that. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286978 |
We have a general *mechanism* for internationalization, but building out non-English versions hasn't gotten much attention so far. Contributions are welcome. The general idea is identifiers in the code instead of hard-wired strings, and then per-language YAML files that map those IDs to text. I'm ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286830 |
Thanks @#56850, and please do let us know how we can help. If you add SSO, I'll bet there are folks on the Codidact team who'd be interested in taking a look at what you've done. :-)
(more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286545 |
The icon that shows up in the usercard is a configuration option and can be changed. I suspect the one that goes with the "moderator" label in the abilities section of the profile is baked in. I agree that having two different icons is confusing. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276935 |
I'm marking this as status-deferred because it's something that would be nice to have but won't be soon. Workarounds (not complete solutions) are the dashboard (tells you *that* something is new, but not what) and the RSS feeds. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286460 |
It's a balance. When there are lots of comments, we've seen that some people won't keep scrolling to get to the actual answers. (We saw that on SE, and it's clear from the amount of repetition on some other platforms that it's happening elsewhere too.) Maybe we need to add an "expand all" control ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39469 |
Welcome @#8169! I'm glad you found it. Someday we will have email notifications for pings (after a delay to avoid being noisy), but we don't have that yet. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286486 |
That's the idea -- expand a thread in-page including the reply box and the other controls (edit, delete, etc). But make it two-step, so you don't automatically see everything in that 79-comment argument -- see the first 5 and that there are 74 more, and then if you want it, expand and it's all yours... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |