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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #286486 |
Somebody started working on inlining all comments but it seems to have stalled and I need to find out why. The idea is that we'll still show just the first five by default, so you don't have to expand a huge thread just to see what it's about, but then there'd be a "show rest" control. The thread p... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286479 |
One reason we added threaded comments is that, regardless of intent or active moderation, we know from other sites that comments *will* sometimes be used for discussions. Sometimes those discussions are worth keeping (as background for an edit, for instance, or to alert people who would otherwise st... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286460 |
What do you mean by them being hidden? Do you mean that only the thread titles are visible by default? Until there are more than 5 comments, you can see everything in-page, without navigating away. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286456 |
That's a good suggestion. I've created https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/797 to track it. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286425 |
@#56529 if the last line, which mentions the other user, were removed, would that satisfy you? We do need a screenshot to demonstrate the problem; I looked through my own recent pings but I don't have an example of this issue. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284460 |
@#8103 yeah, all our modals are like that, and it's confused me too. (Somewhere here I have a question about how to dismiss search.) The 'x' suggestion has come up; I don't know what blocks that (some design principle I'm not aware of, some Ruby thing, something about how our code is structured, so... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286268 |
Hi again, @#53878. Small change of plans; I have the list now and can pass it on. Could you give me an email address (or Twitter ID or Discord ID) so I can send you the list? You can contact me on Twitter or Discord or email monica at codidact dot org. Thanks for the help! ( @#8103 I'll send to ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286336 |
Adding a "Delete" button that soft-deletes the user immediately (in the UI) and queues the actual deletion (in the DB) for later seems like a good solution to me. I agree we should have it; my answer was to explain why "delete for real right now" isn't implemented yet. We do want to make this more ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286336 |
If we did "on hold" then we could do it immediately (as visible on-site). That's a good point.
I'm not sure what you mean about IP/cookies/content interest and DOM nodes. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286268 |
@#53878 we can contact you via the email address you used for this account. (Where "we" means a developer with DB access -- getting those error logs also requires DB access, so this isn't any extra load for anybody.) Thanks @#8103 for helping too! (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286268 |
Yes, it's still a concern. Thanks for offering to help! I've asked a developer with access to the info to get in touch with you (so the two of you can decide together what works best for sharing info and coordinating). (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285470 |
@#53492 it looks like that lets us auto-link from GH to Meta (etc). We're already doing that (though with actual links, not auto-links), but what we're missing is going the other direction. If I link to a meta post from a GitHub issue, it'd be great if something could be added to the meta post (com... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286243 |
Yeah, when I suggested archiving as an option, the primary use case I had in mind was "support edit history". I need to think more about the primary question here, which is why I haven't responded to that yet. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286192 |
I didn't know we limited width (and can't find where we do but I am not fluent in CSS). I thought it was just that we wouldn't overflow the space allocated to the post, which is proportional I thought. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286192 |
Perfect is the enemy of good. I don't know how to make it wider, but I submitted a PR to make the section taller. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285741 |
Thanks for checking. I've filed this to track it: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/787. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285741 |
I tested this on Android with Chrome 99.0 on your linked example and also [this post](https://christianity.codidact.com/posts/286016) and I see the footnote number. Are they still missing for you? Wondering if this is an OS difference or something else. Thanks. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286086 |
Testing: are you able to see https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/285487? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286060 |
Somebody with database access can check that error code, yes. Thanks for the report.
Your reputation is correct; it shows as 11 (currently) on your profile. Here on Meta, reputation doesn't show in the "usercard"; those stats are number of top-level posts, number of answers, net votes, and edits.... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286052 |
I think guest posting would have to be accompanied by some sort of pre-publication community review, else it would be too easy to flood the site with spam or trolling. That doesn't mean "no"; it means it's something we have to figure out how to implement. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285470 |
@#53280 sorry for any confusion I've caused. We welcome bug reports and feature requests on Meta (especially ones that benefit from community discussion). Some people directly report bugs on Github and that's fine too. We create Github issues for bugs reported on Meta (including per-community meta... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286026 |
I meant ranking answers under the question, yes. Right now there are three actions somebody can take to affect that: vote up, vote down, don't vote. People who can't downvote just won't vote, which means you can't sort the merely-ok answers above the actively-wrong ones.
Tying votes to a comment r... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286026 |
Without downvotes, how would you sort answers? In particular, how would you support the "meh" and wrong answers, all of which would have zero upvotes but with variable quality? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285954 |
This is an important question, thanks. Rather than a bunch of fragmentary answers, I'm working with the people who know various parts of this so we can post one answer that covers all the areas you ask about. A delay means we're organizing this across timezones, not that we're ignoring you. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285845 |
The root cause of the various mismatches between the preview and the final rendered text is the different libraries used on the frontend and backend. I don't know enough to be able to say how hard it is to fix that, but I'm guessing there's something that makes it hard since this keeps coming up and... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285842 |
@#36363 I've approved a suggested edit that focuses the question on the points you brought up. I'm leaving this comment here so you'll know how that edit got approved, in case you object (but I hope you won't, as I think it will lead to a more productive discussion of the issue you've raised). (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
@#54706, @#8176 - we're working on the acute problem while knowing we also have a longer-term gap. The team and mods are discussing. (I thought I left a comment here but it must have been somewhere else.) (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285783 |
@#36396 you should have access now (and a ping from me). Sorry for the extra system; we don't have private group messaging built into our software yet. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285783 |
FYI, we're discussing the short-term problem in the moderators' channel. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285776 |
This looks like a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284472. Could you post your proposed solution here as an answer there? Thanks. (There's another answer with a time-based+score-based system you might be interested in, too.) (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285710 |
@#54706 one could imagine a later version where an "add this to my list" control is available on your posts when browsing, which would make it easier to manage. People can create this in the "about" space now -- it supports all the same Markdown that posts do -- but you have to build it yourself. B... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
I think you mean something more curated than automated, right? Could you say something more about what this might look like on Codidact? For example, are you thinking of a CV like on SO, or something more like "posts I made that I want to highlight"? Per-community, or network-wide? (We're plannin... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
Spaces in tags would likely lead to confusion in the editor -- when you type a space and there's no match, is that the end of a proposed new tag or a space in the middle of an existing or new tag? I think our intent was to not allow them and this is a bug. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278775 |
Related, newer proposal: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285535. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
@#8176 an important (IMO) difference is that "Not Programming Related" was treated as a site unto itself, while the incubator would be more of a holding pen and sandbox. I'm imagining a clear explanation at the top (plus a notice like what you see on Meta when not logged in), and maybe excluding it ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285576 |
@#8176 I was thinking of using the incubator to support proposals. (Area 51 has many problems; can we do better?) The incubator will need to be more proactive in closing stuff that couldn't work anywhere, and about deleting closed questions that don't get fixed. Part of my idea with "no rep" was t... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276505 |
This was fixed somewhere along the way; I just tested with a new user and can't see the close and delete links. (You can see them on your *own* posts, but that's because you can do those things there.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285528 |
Communities need people who are interested in answering those questions *and are able to do so*, though, @#36363. Having a place to ask questions that won't get decent answers, or maybe any answers at all, doesn't help, I'd like to see more, and more-active, communities here too -- for which we nee... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285473 |
The attribution requirements include linking to the SE user, so if we deleted the stub account we would need to add that link to all the affected posts. I'd rather have fewer of those outbound links to SE than more. But I agree that they shouldn't clutter up the users list and ones with no remainin... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285414 |
If codidact.com/users/##### can't serve a database-driven page (I was assuming it could), then we can create users.codidact.com and do it there. Or something similar. I don't think *where to host it* is going to be a big factor here. codidact.com doesn't have a back end *now*, but that doesn't mea... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285415 |
Using separate accounts requires more work, but on the flip side, protecting "hidden" accounts so they really can't be connected by observers is also complicated. SE has had problems with that for years, because "hidden" wasn't really but by having something called "hide", they gave people the impre... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285249 |
I checked a few other communities and the numbers are out of sync there too. I can't explain it with different post types (like articles) or deleted posts. Filed https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/754. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284930 |
I currently [see the quote symbol in the diff](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fSYmdMfjfRYpL411gokjNYy6), not the HTML encoding. Do you too? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285441 |
Thanks for the feedback @#36396. Everything you've listed -- pings, comments in threads you're following, comments on your own posts -- would also show up in inbox notifications, but of course the inbox is everything combined. (At least you can mark individual items as read or unread, but if you're... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285449 |
Or maybe add "all communities" (the dashboard link) at the *top* of the communities list, and maybe also move "sign out" somewhere else. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285414 |
@#53922 on SE, every site is separate and there's network-level integration. I don't know if they actually have separate databases or are doing multi-tenancy inside one DB, but each site is kept separate. That's why on SE you have different profile IDs and can have different profile contents (name,... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285414 |
@#54706 is correct. The network of communities at codidact.com is powered by a single instance of qpixel backed by a single database, and so a network profile is possible, just as network-wide user preferences are possible.
Other networks using the qpixel software would have their own qpixel inst... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285441 |
Sorry, the boxes are where logos would go (or key elements from logos, I guess). My idea was that you could click and drag the logo or name to re-order items, while just plain clicking would take you to your profile on that community. If a drag interface is too hard, we could use the "move up/move ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285416 |
@#36396 I sketched out an idea that I think addresses most of your points in [this answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285414/285441#answer-285441). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285416 |
You hinted at one difference: codidact.com is a static page, which doesn't changed if you're logged in. It includes the community descriptions; it's more for browsing for interesting places to go. The dashboard, on the other hand, shows the more details (for logged-in users): all the categories, wh... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |