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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more One advantage of threaded comments is that the exchange isn't in anybody's way. If User A posts, User B comments, User A says "thanks, fixed", and nothing else happens, no harm done. If that's the entire thread, either of them could flag a comment and say that the entire thread is now obsolete. ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags? This is a good suggestion, and I thought "oh, just adding another button there -- that might be easy enough that even I can do it!". And then I realized there's something else we ought to address as part of this, and I'm definitely not good enough with Ruby for that, so I wrote a Github feature requ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: How can we poll a community? The approach of one answer per option has another benefit: someone might think of something else, or propose a refinement of an existing option. I recommend that approach -- describe the problem in the question, describe possible solutions in answers (one per answer), invite other answers if applica... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Who should be able to create new tags? It's been pointed out in a few places that, so long as creating tags is much easier than managing them, we're going to have problems handling typos, duplicates, and tags that otherwise ought not exist. There's a separate question about the maintenance side; my question here is: what should determine... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: A way to prohibit creating certain tags. Category settings include some tag settings: - Required tags: a set of tags, one of which must be included in a post (this is how discussion, feature-request, bug, and support on meta work) - Topic tags: tags with a visual difference but no other restrictions (the Proposals site uses these) ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Proposal to ease tag maintenance We should make it easier for trusted users to manage tags. Can we please have some feedback on the following ideas? - Creating tags directly (independently of a post): move from mod-only to anyone with the Edit Tags ability.[^1] - Renaming tags: move from mod-only to anyone with the Edit Tags a... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: I can mark my own answer as "Works for me" Intended. Or, more specifically, a special case that we didn't intercept. Reactions are not "baked in"; they're defined by each community. We seed some default ones, but a community can remove them, add others, ore even edit them. Sometimes it makes sense for you to be able to react to your own... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Indicate stale reactions based on user activity I would prefer to give readers information rather than infer conclusions (sometimes right, sometimes not). We have an existing request to show reactions in history somehow -- specifically, readers need to know if that outdated/dangerous reaction was before or after a substantial edit. Maybe we can... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Add safeguards to "mobile sign-in" feature One threat model is the nearby person at the coffeeshop (or whatever) being able to scan the large QR code that comes up as soon as you click that button in the header. Many other things in the headers are modals/dropdowns, so you might not be expecting that QR code there and might not have consider... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: How to send message to mod other than by flag? Thank you for this suggestion. I agree that this is a gap we should address. We're currently working on improvements to moderator tools that include letting moderators initiate private discussions with users. When that's in place, I think we should add a way for a user to request or initiate such ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Adding the search guidance hints to the search results page too Being mindful of space usage before you get to the results you came for, we added a condensed set of hints, like this: (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Send notifications if a comment is edited to mention the person If you edit a ping into a comment and that user is not already following the thread, we now send a notification. We don't want to send multiple notifications and we can't easily withdraw the already-sent one, so we chose to instead withhold the one for this edge case. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Native sorting button blocks other sorting orders Now that we have filters, we should remove the native button and add a toggle for native (non-imported) posts to the filter options. As you point out, "native" is not, logically speaking, a sort but a binary property. (Edit: Apparently, as discussed in comments, it is implemented as a sort now, but... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Can I please ask questions from the search page? This makes sense. The search-results page isn't "in" a category (same as the list of users, help, and some other pages aren't), so we'll need to add something to choose what category to create the post in. I'll do some poking around and see what it'll take to do that. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Can we have the ability to create tags without being linked to a question? Users with the Edit Tags ability now can create tags directly using the "New" button on the Tags page: tags page from EE Q&A with 'new' button The Edit Tags ability cannot currently be earned naturally through the abilities system because of some other technical debt we need to fix, but moderat... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Let moderators grant abilities. You can. On the user's profile, click "Moderator tools" and then choose "privileges" from there. (I'm sorry about the unclear name there.) A "Moderator tools" button on Olin Lathrop's user profile; the button has been pressed, showing several options, including "privileges" which has been circ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Confusing behavior of tags shared between categories We improved this a while ago but the bug didn't get closed so I didn't come update here, sorry. The counts are still totals across all relevant categories, because filtering for the current category would be too hard. We changed the text at the top from "tags for $category" to "tags used in $cate... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: How can Codidact be independent from Stack Exchange, when you have same moderators? This is a fair question. I haven't discussed this answer with Mithical, but I'll give you my perspective. The Codidact project aims to do better (much better!) than Stack Exchange in some important ways, most notably how we serve and involve the community. I think it's fair to say that Stack Exc... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Proposal: Human-readable profile URLs User names don't have to be unique (and platforms that require uniqueness tend to frustrate people who end up being Mike792 or whatever), so we need the numbers. Given that we need to include the number, we went for the shortest URL that uniquely identifies the user. Would it help if we added the n... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: What should I know when coming here from Stack Exchange? A recent comment asked: > Can answers address what the situation is about copying content from SE? Can I copy my own questions or answers over? Someone elses? Has anyone considered or tried copying them en masse? You can copy your own questions here. You own the content, so there are no licens... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Comment threads with zero comments I'm guessing that this is due to timing, as you said in the question. I don't think it's worth trying to write code to find and fix these; if you notice them, feel free to flag and we can clean them up. I'll delete the one linked in this question. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Duplicate Mobile Sign In button in user profile shows on mobile I'm not sure why the button doesn't appear in the header on mobile. But even if it did (in a wide-enough window), it might not always appear -- some things drop out when space is tight. Given that, I don't think it's bad to have a place where it always shows up (your profile), in addition to a plac... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Show question title before community name in browser tab I think this is going to require more thought, because we need to do something that works for all instances, not just ours. Our browser titles have several elements: - favicon (this is configurable today) - network name ("Codidact"; I don't know where that's set) - community name (dynamic) ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Is corporate hosting of private Codidact sites permitted? Welcome! Not only is it permitted, but you won't be the first to run a private instance — there's already a university using the Codidact code (QPixel) on a private network. We're building this platform not just for our own public network but for others to use too. (I recommend the `develop`... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Clearer community proposals transition for skim readers Good point. Ideally that button just wouldn't be there at all if posting isn't allowed, but we never planned for that case. I don't know what it would take to either remove it or cause it to link to the new site, but one thing I can do right now is change its text. I've just changed the button tex... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: A feature-request status page I've updated the feature-request tag description to incorporate the suggestions in this answer. Thanks for putting that together, ArtOfCode! (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: New post type: a recap table If I understand correctly, you'd like to have some sort of "summary table" covering all the answers for a question that has a lot of them. While this can't be manually curated (but wait, see below), we do have a table of contents that automatically appears when a post has more than a certain numbe... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Comments improvements to indicate assent or dissent with previously posted comments I like the idea of adding a way to "co-sign" a comment -- the "me too" part of this proposal. I don't think we should also add "disagree" using that mechanism, though. Disagreement should be explained, so instead of just clicking "I disagree", add a comment saying you disagree and explaining what... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Feature request: Ability to edit title of comment thread This is on our roadmap. The current plan is to allow anybody involved in the thread to rename it, with an auto-comment to the thread recording the change: something like "title changed from (old) to (new) by (user)". This comment is owned by System, not the person making the change, so only moderato... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: How to keep displayed usernames unique even if the user account is deleted? Every user already has an associated unique number (it's in your profile URL). The easiest way to distinguish user names for deleted users would be to use that number. This is what SE does. A consequence of this approach is that this means that anyone who knew your user number before you deleted... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Creating tags is much easier than adding description We currently have no way to suggest an edit for tag descriptions. This is a known gap and it's blocking the natural awarding of the Edit Tags ability. I think it probably also blocks doing something reasonable with creation, and I've just edited the GitHub issue to track this post. In broad stro... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Introducing proposals.codidact.com, a new way to add communities to our network A few weeks ago we asked for feedback on a new way of developing community proposals for our network. Thanks to your feedback we made some adjustments (and also a couple small code changes we realized we needed), and then asked the Webmasters proposal to try it out. We're now ready to make the switc... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: We need to talk about Abilities I want moderators to be able to grant or suspend abilities at fairly granular levels, because sometimes that person who's answered a ton of questions well also has a tendency to make noisy edits or leave rude comments, and I want moderators to be able to take the smallest action that addresses a prob... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: What's happened to Codidact Collab? We had a still-undiagnosed problem involving (waves hands vaguely, sorry) involving DNS records and/or Cloudflare for our `.org` subdomains, including `collab`. We were able to correct the problem fairly quickly, but it took a while for the change to propagate. We are still investigating the root c... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: No visible response when searching on mobile The filters widget is now collapsed on the search-results page, like it is for categories. This restores the status quo for small viewports, but I've just noticed while verifying this fix that the "advanced search" block still takes a lot of room on my phone. Should we do anything about that? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Some symbols are displayed as HTML encoding in question description This is fixed now. Here's a current screenshot of the same example: (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Quick copy button for code blocks This is now fixed. A "copy" button appears in the top right corner of a code block on hover (desktop) or on tap (mobile). (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers? We have posted our default policy for generative-AI content. It's more of a clarification than an actual change; as pointed out in another answer, representing Chat-GPT or any other content that you did not create as yours is plagiarism and was already disallowed. When you use another's material you... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Mismatch between search guidance, search help page, and search behaviour for votes and score Thanks for this report. The behavior is powerful; we should update the documentation, not limit search. I've updated the search topic in the help center to describe how the operators actually work and pushed that change to the network. I can do that much without changing code. :-) I've also sub... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities Related: Incubator (takes all questions that aren't ontopic anywhere else) community We currently use posts in the Site Proposals category to organize proposals for new communities on our network. Sometimes a community has come together quickly and this has worked really well, but most of the... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Redundant "Posts" heading on every community in the dashboard There are some additional sections visible only to admins and/or global moderators, which is why the heading exists at all. But you're right: for the vast majority of people, that's the only visible section, so the heading looks odd. I think the solution would be either to only show that heading ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Announcing filters We've seen many requests over time for some way to customize what you see on the list of questions in a category – finding unanswered questions, hiding closed or low-scoring questions, or building more personalized views. You can use search for one-off queries, but until now you couldn't set a sticky... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Recent feature changes to the Codidact software December 2023 - Editor preview now alerts you to HTML that will be stripped out before posting. (The preview renderer and the final rendering sometimes do not match because the client and server necessarily use different libraries; now the editor lets you know what's not going to work.) - Users w... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Proposal: filters for post lists There'll be more of an announcement coming, but here are some quick notes in the meantime. The top of each category now has a new widget: filters widget (circled) If you expand it you'll see some filtering options: form showing all the things you can set There are some predefined filte... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Blocked from posting to Collab by script tag inside code block Summarizing some discussion in Discord (Communities server, network-town-hall): the problem wasn't trichoplax or an IP issue but, rather, a code block that contains a `script` tag. Cloudflare is detecting that as an attempt to inject Javascript, apparently — it doesn't detect the difference be... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: No response when clicking on the title of a thread on a recently deleted post I think we should match "interaction type". The person clicking on a thread title expects an in-page expansion, not a new page, so I think an in-page notification about the deletion is better than moving to a separate 404 page. When the front-end code finds out about the deletion (by trying to ex... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories? Most of the time, any logged-in user can post a new top-level post (question, article, maybe other types). Categories can restrict this posting access, however. For example, on the Meta blog, only moderators and administrators can post. Everybody sees a "create post" button. If you aren't allow... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Extra brackets for footnotes (but this time in post) This should be fixed now, but it's complicated and I'm just going to quote a bit from the pull request: > Note: This will result in footnotes that currently only have one pair of brackets having none. Unfortunately, this is an inconsistency in the HTML itself which cannot be corrected except by ed... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Double brackets in footnotes This should be fixed now, but it's complicated and I'm just going to quote a bit from the pull request: > Note: This will result in footnotes that currently only have one pair of brackets having none. Unfortunately, this is an inconsistency in the HTML itself which cannot be corrected except by ed... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Can "last activity" provide more context on what it was that happened? We've made some progress since this question was posted, but there is still work to do (especially in the case of deleted answers). Edits to questions and closures are more specific (I assume reopens are but can't find an example to confirm). New answers, edits to answers, and answer deletions stil... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |