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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: Should we have organization accounts? An alternative approach would be to have the concept of organizations but not separate accounts. A user who is a member of one or more organizations could have a way, when posting, to say "on behalf of this org", and it would show up something like your "for the dev team" example. Advantages: - ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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January 2023 Newsletter Happy new year from the Codidact team! We have a bunch of updates to share about the server migration, platform changes, and new contributors – and we'll check in on the roadmap we laid out to see how we're doing. Server upgrade We have migrated and slightly re-architected our servers. Our ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Can't click notification icon The notifications bug is known and we're working on a fix. (It has to be made in one repo, propagated to another via `npm`, and then of course deployed. I think we're waiting for the `npm` step at the moment.) The bug happens if you click directly on the number or text, but if you click in the whi... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Comment flagging is hidden from inexperienced users We definitely want this to be possible from the in-page view, without clicking through to the thread. This issue is even on the roadmap we laid out at the beginning of the year -- it's important. I thought this would be easy but it turns out there are some complications in the code. I was just ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Creating new Discord channels We can't grant the ability broadly without also granting destructive abilities, as another answer says. If any community wants more channels under its section, admins can create them -- just let us know. I haven't used Discord threads much, but when they first showed up, threads would be auto-del... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Comments count includes deleted comments, which it shouldn't We fixed the inconsistency a different way. Instead of computing the numbers for all threads at page-load time, we still report the full number of comments, but when you expand the comment thread you see that there are deleted ones, like this: "skipping 3 deleted comments" before the one visible ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Where do meta questions about the Codidact Collab site belong? Oh sorry; I'll fix that description. By "help using the sites" I think we meant issues specific to this network. You can go ahead and ask Collab meta questions on Collab; it's a small community and I don't want to make people go to a different category for what's likely to be a very small number of... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Category new activity indicators reset after release I believe this was a glitch related to this particular upgrade, and not upgrades in general. Or, at least, we haven't seen this in the past. We're not sure what caused it yet and will continue to investigate. I'm sorry for the disruption (I was surprised by all the silver dots too). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Typo in error - Tags can't have more than 5 tags This has been changed to: Post can't have more than 5 tags (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Make navigation bar optionally fixed at the top The user profile now has a network preference to make the top (navigation) bar sticky. The default is the current behavior (not sticky). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Questions previews were introduced: Can the layout be improved? Question previews were added after some user requests; we'd been planning to eventually do a fancier "expand in place" design where you could use a control to see the beginning of the question and a summary of answers and then collapse it again, but that will take more time and in the meantime we cou... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Questions previews were introduced: Can the layout be improved? I'd like to see the "score bar" vertically align with the title, instead of being vertically centered in the whole "slot" for the post. (I didn't notice this with shorter titles in testing -- should have tried some longer ones!) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How do I suggest edits to the tag wiki? It's been a while since you asked this and, sadly, we still haven't implemented suggested edits for tag pages so there would be a way to gain approved suggested edits. I agree it's frustrating. Moderators are able to grant specific abilities to specific users, so it is possible for a community to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed? That's a good question. We kept it separate because we didn't want to distract people from their primary focus, which we assumed would be on the communities here rather than the underpinnings. Collab is linked from the GitHub repository and we expected that to be the primary path in. I don't hav... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Closing Articles Articles can be made closable in configuration (does not require a code change), but it's a global, network-wide change, so we'd need to make sure that doesn't have negative consequences for any of our communities. The down-side is that currently there is one set of close reasons per community (no... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Main and subheadings are almost the same size, but not in the edit preview I think the problem is in the relative sizes. Here's what I see -- and the first two looked the same to me too until I took a really close look: screen shot from post The first one is large, the second one is slightly smaller, barely, and then there's a huge size difference between the second ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Vote summary refers to "you" even for another's profile You're right; that's awkward if you're looking at someone else's profile. I have submitted a pull request to change this wording to: > A daily summary of votes received for posts. The user name is already shown in the line just above this one, so I don't think we need to repeat it. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist? While reviewing older bugs we discovered that this problem no longer exists. I'm sorry we didn't catch this at the time; I don't know if someone fixed it but we failed to update here, or if it was fixed as a side-effect of some other change, but I just tested this out in this suggested edit and it s... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Using QPixel in education We've heard about a few people who were considering setting up their own instances, but I don't know whether any of them have done it yet. I hope people do; we didn't set out to just set up our own network of communities, but also to provide the means for others to do so. The qpixel repository on... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Filter to show only positive posts Ultimately I'd like this to be one of the predefined filters when we implement this feature, which is on the roadmap but will take a while. On the other hand, it seems like we have a more pressing need. One approach, which was the starting point for the question you linked to, is to filter the vi... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Archive to mark as "resolved", without locking the comment? I think what you might be looking for is "resolved" -- you want to indicate that a thread has been handled, but you want to leave the door open for feedback. I would expect a hypothetical "resolve" option to do the following: - Hide the thread by default, as with archived threads. - Show "resolv... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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June 2022 Newsletter This newsletter was sent to our email subscribers and is being reposted here. Hello from the Codidact team! It's been a while since we sent out a newsletter (sorry!). We want to share some updates, including news about the long-awaited server upgrade made possible by very generous donors. ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Remove "Post" terminology from sites other than META There are other types of posts (and other types of top-level posts). In a comment you mentioned the category bar that contains "posts", "tags", and "edits". This has to work on all categories on all communities. While every community has categories where all top-level posts are questions, some h... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: How can I curb my search to the Main site, not Meta? From the help: > filtering by category > > To filter by category, you will need to know the unique numeric id for that category. This can be found by looking at the url shown when you click to view all posts in a particular category. Use the formatting `category:xxxx` to apply this filter. T... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Deficiencies in the Terms of Service This is already being discussed in a comment thread, but I'm bumping it up to an answer for visibility and so it can be voted on. > "We may update our terms from time to time without further notice to you, unless notice is required by law. Your use of the Service after the Terms are updated const... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Please allow a user to permanently delete their account The current email path (and asking you to prove you control the account, because email can be spoofed) is a stopgap. We do want to allow you to delete an account more directly. If you could make the request from the site, for instance, then the fact that you're signed in would already demonstrate c... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Allow using <kbd> in the website (Unsuccessful test. Oh well; I thought it was fixed but not yet I guess.) -- This is regular text. This is kbd text. This is regular text with a kbd element within. > This is a quote with kbd text. These all work in the preview now; let's see what happens when I submit. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Is the Codidact community the same as Stack Overflow? Welcome! We certainly aim to be better. From the platform side, serving the community (not stockholders) is one of our primary goals, really our reason to exist. We expect everybody to be civil and of course don't tolerate things like personal attacks and harassment. Each community is a little ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: How can I see a list of all my deleted questions? You can see your own deleted questions if you have the URLs, but we haven't yet implemented a way for you to see those links in the UI (like with a "deleted" tab or filter on your profile). I've emailed you a list of the URLs of your deleted questions for the community you asked about. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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Help wanted: investigating server errors We've had several bug reports here on Meta about server 500 errors, and we know that these can deter participation. That's bad at any time but especially when we are trying to grow. We want to do better. So far, our developers with database access have been looking these up when there's a bug re... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: What are the bus factors of Codidact? > Software: QPixel is publicly available so that sounds good but for the Codidact flavor of QPixel additional parts must be assembled to create the software this network runs on. How many persons know how to do that? Is it written down anywhere? We have an operations manual of sorts in a private w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Request for a Member Story feature which helps to highlight a Codidact member's topic expertise The "about" section of your profile, as noted in another answer, provides a place to put whatever content you like, including a proto-CV if you choose. But I think there's a more general idea here that I'd like to explore: a way to highlight particular posts, regardless of their scores or the commun... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Incubator (takes all questions that aren't on-topic anywhere else) community I'm speaking only for myself (not the team) and with insufficient caffeine. I might refine this idea later. :-) We know we need to improve our community-proposal process, particularly in the area of scope and sample questions. Sometimes the only way to show a topic or type of question is to actu... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Codidact Technical Roadmap Something we've been lacking on the Codidact project thus far is a clear development roadmap. Various people have goals in our heads, and some of our GitHub issues have priorities set, but that's not as helpful as it could be. Developers new to the platform don't know where to jump in, and unless y... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What information should be displayed on a network profile? I thought the best way to respond to this answer would be with a sketch. The answer raises a few key points: - Show me my communities (not all of them), in an order I choose. - Show me where there's new stuff I should know about. - Compactly. For the "list of communities" part of the netwo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What information should be displayed on a network profile? > Do Activity and Vote Summary need to be separate tabs? One could call it History instead and then have filters and sorting on it or expand the number of tabs into a larger list (questions, answers, ...). I think of Activity and Vote Summary as being pretty different. Activity is "stuff I did"; ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What information should be displayed on a network profile? > Is there one account (email/password) for the whole network or one account for each site? There is one account for the whole network. Profiles on individual communities are auto-created when you visit a community for the first time while logged in. It would take some work to create separate ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: 404 Not found after donation success I went through the donation workflow, starting on Software, and `donate/success` is working for me now. I don't know if you hit something transient or if there's some other difference between us. (I'll ask someone with access to the server logs to take a look.) I wouldn't expect directly visitin... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Proposal: filters for post lists Several discussions have touched on the idea of being able to filter the contents of the post list. Whether your goal is to find unanswered questions, hide closed questions, hide ignored tags, or build a more complex filter, this is something we've wanted to be able to support for a while. A design... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Is gaining rep based on SE content ok? I realize the question is more about harvesting and reposting others' work here, but there's a special case of reposting I'd like to address. (For the general question, see the other answers.) Sometimes it happens that you've written an answer you're proud of somewhere else, whether SO or Quora o... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Filtering questions with "no answer" and/or "no accepted answer" ? You can search by answer count by adding `posttype:1 answers:n` to your search. To find unanswered questions, search for `posttype:1 answers:0`. When you type `posttype:` in the search form, you'll see a pop-up that lists the available post types. You don't have to memorize the numbers. We do... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Editing Thread Titles Based on feedback to this answer and other conversations, I propose the following: 0. Allow anybody with the Curate ability to edit the title at any time (this is true today). 1. Allow the creator of the thread to edit the title at any time until there is a comment from somebody else. 2. Add... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Should we remove closed questions from the question list? Should we exclude closed questions from the question list? Closed questions (and their answers) would still be linked on the owners' profiles, would be included in search results, and would produce the usual notifications from activity on them. This change would only be to get them out of the mai... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Donation account cannot currently make live charges, transaction has not been processed Update: Stripe has now unblocked us and I just successfully made a donation (from a different community where I didn't turn the button off last night). I'll restore the button here on Meta. Again, I apologize to everybody who was trying to support us and hit this roadblock. The issue was that ou... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Proposal for Wikipedia article I would love for Codidact to have an entry on Wikipedia and, particularly, for it to be linked in this list of Q&A platforms. Wikipedia has notability requirements that must be met before they'll host a page. Basically, we need media or other prominent discussions of Codidact that didn't come fro... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? As a starting point for discussion, I suggest that the logged-out view not show any posts that are closed or have a score worse than that of +0/-1. We're not trying to pretend that downvotes never happen, just mitigate their aggregate effect. I'm proposing this for the default view only. Someon... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? A complaint we've heard a lot is that when a community's front page has many questions that are not well-received, it deters visitors. (It also deters some people who are already here, I know.) This is not a good look: post list: 0/0, 0/-2, 2/-5, 0/-2, 0/-3, 0/-6, 1/-1, 0/-3 I'm trying not to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Response to Monica Cellio's cross posts — "How can we grow this community"? I'm sorry if I didn't make the purpose of these posts clear enough. We are asking each individual community to talk about those communities. We're not looking for general suggestions like "use Reddit"; that's not actionable. But if, say, there's a particular subreddit that is well-aligned with one... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Ability to hide / ignore tags Proposal: - If a question has at least one tag that you've marked as a favorite, it's highlighted (as now). - If a question has at least one tag that you've marked as ignore, it's de-emphasized somehow (grayed out or similar). - If both conditions apply, the question gets no special styling (th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Stop inserting space after question titles This is one of those annoying things that sounds like it should be easy to fix, but isn't. There's more explanation in the GitHub issue, but the view is picking up the whitespace in the source code that is required to keep that code legible. It's an annoyance, but we think living with it is better ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |