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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: Renaming a tag rewrites history I brought this one up internally and we all agree that yes, it's confusing. Unfortunately, it's also a complicated change; we don't track tag history now, and adding that would make the code complex in several places, so we're not going to try to do that now. I apologize for the confusion that tag ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A few small changes, mostly about moderation and curation The latest update includes a few small changes of possible general interest: - Moderators can now escalate flags to the admin team. If you have a flag that requires our attention, or if you want to recuse yourself and you don't have a fellow moderator to ask for help from, or if you need some hel... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Notification dropdown doesn't consistently change items from "unread" to "read" This is (newly) happening for me today, using Firefox 93.0 on Windows 10. I haven't been using Codidact a lot on this machine lately, but I have used it in recent weeks without seeing this problem. A few days ago I updated Firefox to try to reproduce a different bug. I do not know if these facts a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can tags be deleted? This is a gap we need to address, yes. There's another way to get rid of them that's a little hacky: you can merge the bad tag into another one. If there's an obvious target (like there were two tags for the same thing but one was misspelled) I would merge into the correct one. If there's no obvio... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Reacting without signing in error The "react" control is now not shown if a user is not logged in. Vote buttons still are; they provide context for the score and, further, voting buttons are widespread on the Internet and people are used to them not working if not signed in, so this should not be surprising here. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Happy Birthday, Codidact! It feels like we celebrated Codidact’s first birthday only yesterday and that Codidact was founded just a few days ago, but here we are. Codidact is now officially two years old! [^1] Two years ago luap42 set up the Discord server that led to all the discussions that led to this network and the code... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Get a [faq] tag, mods! There doesn't seem to be consensus for all communities, but any community that wants new moderator-only tags, FAQ or otherwise, can have them -- just let us know (on your community's meta). The category definition includes a place to add such tags. (On our earliest communities, before we had some o... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Let's improve how we handle duplicates Update based on feedback I really like the ideas proposed in this answer, which at the time of this posting has the same vote count as this question (+6, -0). The proposal in that answer creates what I think is a better experience for the asker and the community, and is less complicated from a be... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content It sounds like we want to temporarily revoke a person's ability to make lots of posts when recent quality is an issue. The Participate Everywhere ability allows one to post without limit. Nominally, the requirement to earn it is: > To earn this ability, you need to have roughly 75% of your pos... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Allow a user to edit a threaded comment's title after the threaded comment has been created I think it's reasonable for the person who created the thread to be able to edit the title so long as the only comments are from that user. As soon as there's a comment from someone else, though, there's the chance that changing the thread title can affect context for those comments (or even can be ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should it be possible to "react" to one's own posts? Good question. A reaction doesn't bestow benefits (reputation, progress toward abilities, or preferential placement on the page), so in one sense reacting to your own post is harmless. On the other hand, it does add an attention-grabbing marker, and it might make sense to restrict that. I've bee... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Split any question post with two or more questions into several posts (per the number of questions) and attribute it to the asker Sometimes several questions are closely related and are best handled as a group, as this answer says. Sometimes the asker (who is, pretty much by definition, less expert than the people who will answer the question) can't tell whether questions are closely related and should be handled together. ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Let's improve how we handle duplicates Currently, marking a question as a duplicate is part of question closure. Duplicates are a little different from other close reasons, though -- often the question itself is clear, complete, and otherwise solid, but it happens to have been asked before. Question closure can leave people feeling j... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Show more threaded comments after clicking the title of a threaded discussion I agree that someone who asks for the comments should see the comments, especially with the "collapse" control. Very occasionally here (so far; this happened often on some sites Someplace Else), there will be a very long comment thread, by which I mean 20+. Over there we sometimes saw 100+ commen... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Newsletter #8 (August 2021) Hello from the Codidact team! We're here with another update from our corner of the Internet. Platform ## We've made a lot of improvements large and small since our last newsletter. First, we finished threaded comments, and they are already helping people to organize conversations without bei... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Has anyone seen my unicorn? Alas, our unicorn herders have gone missing, and we don't know when they'll return. For now, we've just pushed a change to generate boring avatars for people who were using unicorns. We still hope to get our wandering unicorns back, either from the original server or by running our own, but in the ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Delete the [<i>test</i>] tag. Done. I also found and nuked [my-test], [status-this-is-a-test], and [somebody-test] (eliding the identity of "somebody"). We, uh, need a way to make newly-created tags more visible for community review. Our longer-term plans include restricting who can create tags, but for new or young communit... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Answers order is changed when we access a specific answer by its direct link I'm not sure how intentional it is, but it's a known change to fix a related bug. Until recently, if you followed a direct link to an answer that wasn't on the first page of the post, that action failed and you got redirected to the question instead. I'm not sure of all the details, but apparently ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we show length of character for each "things"? You will now see a length indicator for post titles, post bodies, and thread titles when you're approaching the limit. (I'm not real sure from reading the code, but I think it shows up when you get to 75% of the limit.) We chose this approach, as opposed to showing and updating the count with every... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Allow comment thread owner to delete comment threads when only comments from the comment thread owner remain undeleted This is fixed using the approach Mithical suggested in a comment: when the last comment in a thread is deleted, the thread is now automatically deleted. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Is there any disadvantages of getting Quora-like community which might affect Codidact Quora seems to be more of a social platform than a knowledge-sharing one. You have to dig through a lot of stuff you don't care about to find the information you're looking for. We don't want to do that. Another answer talked about some of the ways we are not a clone of SE. In addition to those... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Add an icon for verification (for mods) The icon appears in the "user card": screenshot It doesn't appear in the post lists (question list, search results, etc), but it doesn't seem like mod/admin status is important to call out there, where you aren't yet seeing what the person actually said beyond a title. The latest changes Som... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? Indicating interest and following proposals Now that we have threaded comments, and the ability to follow threads (meaning you get inbox notifications of new comments), maybe we can use that to simplify some things. Two suggestions: - For each proposal, create a thread on the post named someth... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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User profile now has a Discord link We currently use Discord for community chat. Not everybody uses Discord and that's fine; nobody is required to be in chat. Someday we would like to remove our dependence on a third-party service, but that will not be soon. If community members (or moderators) want to use chat to talk with somebo... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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New search options The team has made some improvements to search, including the following new options (taken from the search help): filtering by user If you want to search for posts written by a particular user you will need to know their unique user number for the community. This can be found by looking at th... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: changes to reputation I see a lot of frustration in your post. I'm sorry you're having a rough time on Codidact. I'm particularly sympathetic to the language barrier; languages are hard to gain fluency in (at least as adults) and English is especially challenging because of its "eclectic" history. I was once yelled at ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: No filter for unanswered questions Instead of adding another button, we've made search more robust. Better documentation will be coming, but you can now search for `answers:#`. `answers:0` finds unanswered questions. Actually, it finds unanswered top-level posts, so it's currently returning articles too (oops), but you can also add... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Keyboard shortcut for image upload prevents me from entering Unicode characters by number The keyboard shortcut for uploading an image is now explicitly control-u, excluding control-shift-u. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Ideas on the separation of Game Development from Videogames CD I'm not a videogamer, so I'll admit up front that I'm generalizing from related areas: as a boardgamer or RPG player, would I want to share space with people creating games, game systems, modules, and player aids? My personal reaction is: yes, very much so! First off, when creators participate in... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Comment Changes Should people be able to edit comments if there are more comments in the thread than are shown in the in-page preview? It seems like that runs the risk of unknowingly changing context out from under later comments that you haven't looked at. We should (all) think more about comment edits. Somepl... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Comments don't like multi-line code :/ When comments were all shown directly under the post with no way to collapse them, it made sense to restrict formatting that could make them take up a lot more vertical space. But (a) we do allow Mathjax (on communities that use it) and (b) comments are now threaded, so I think it makes sense to rel... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Editing Thread Titles I started to write up a platform issue for this, but realized I have questions we need community feedback on first: 1. Who should be able to edit the title, beyond those with the Curate ability who already can? Only the creator, or any participant in the thread? (We do not have a "suggest edit" ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: The homework dumps are coming - how about a network-wide policy? Speaking personally, not for the team: I don't think we should impose a network-wide policy, but I do think we should work out a policy draft that communities can adopt or adapt. We don't know what kinds of communities we'll ultimately attract here. Some might be more interested in mentoring, coa... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Art Codidact Site Please use this post to indicate your interest in helping to build this community. You can either edit this post (if you have the edit ability on Meta) or comment and someone else will edit it into the post. Please indicate if you expect to be a casual or more active participant. If you anticipate... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! Feature request: timestamps. Ok, I admit I can be a little obsessive. Plus, if I'm a moderator, I should try to stay on top of things that are happening on my community. This includes new comments. Would it be possible for the thread entry under a post to show not only the number of comments ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Working together: community customizations Code Golf is not a typical Q&A community. Code golf is a form of competitive programming -- somebody poses a coding challenge, and people try to solve the problem using as few bytes of code as possible. In other words, like in the physical game, golfing is about completing the challenge with the few... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! status-completed Regression: comments with mathjax aren't properly rendering in the in-page preview (see General Comments here), but they do render properly on the full thread page (example). Related bug report. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Threaded comments are here! From our earliest discussions of what the Codidact platform would be, we've known that we had to tackle comments. Comments are very important for giving feedback and asking for clarifications. Some other platforms try to keep comments focused and prune the discussions that naturally happen too, but... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Should we be able to tag answers? On some of our communities, it would be helpful to be able to label answers systematically: - On Code Golf, by language. - On Software Development, Power Users, or Linux Systems, by specific version/platform/library -- for example, if the answer to a C++ question is different for C++11 than C++... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Getting a gaming community of Codidact Please use this post to indicate your interest in helping to build this community. You can either edit this post (if you have the edit ability on Meta) or comment and someone else will edit it into the post. Please indicate if you expect to be a casual or more active participant. If you anticipate... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted More phone feedback -- smaller layout issues. For a screenshot see this answer ('cause wow is that huge and I don't want to do that on a second answer). - I'm glad to see that the "filter results" button is visible and not just lost to "that column goes to the bottom in a responsive design". (No... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted I looked at the mockup on my phone. At default zoom this is what I see (in Chrome, in case it matters): Screenshot screenshot Focusing on the question list (for this answer): - With the amount of stuff at the top and the size of the titles, I see only one question. That seems unfort... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Should HTML entities be supported in titles? We reviewed this and have decided to leave titles as text-only, but we have a workaround that we hope isn't too difficult. To support HTML entities we'd have to run titles through HTML rendering, which adds an opening for security risks. Sure, we have those with the body already, but this would b... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Our team has been exploring some ideas to improve Codidact's design. We've wanted to improve the visual design for a while, and we also have a lot of other usability changes we'd like to make. We want visual design and function to complement each other, creating a more intuitive and pleasant experi... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Deleting a question that has answers that were deleted by System, transfers the answer deletion to the question deleter This is fixed going forward, but existing deletion records haven't been updated. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Battery Science & Engineering Speaking for myself, not for the team. This sounds like a very specialized topic. If there's a strong community around that specialized interest, that can work fine -- several sites on SE are also pretty specialized. (I mean c'mon, 20 blockchain sites instead of one?) While existing communities... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Improving the "copy link" button "Copy Link" is on top-level posts for consistency with answers. On an answer the URL takes you straight to that answer, which isn't what would be in your URL bar. (I think the work on the threaded-comments branch will add comment links, too -- same idea.) Your proposal works smoothly if where yo... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Newsletter #7 (May 2021) Hello again from the Codidact team! We're here with another progress report. Communities Our communities continue to grow, some more slowly and some more quickly. On many of them we're seeing questions at a variety of expertise levels, which is great! If you can't answer that complex special... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why do we have the "Participate Everywhere" ability when we haven't yet done anything? Bootstrapping. Our communities are still small, so after we rolled out the abilities system we decided to put all our communities in "new community" mode, which lets everyone start with Participate Everywhere. Moderators can suspend a specific ability for a user if it's being misused, either for a ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How are the different site header colors picked? Can the community request a color change? There's a list of about a dozen colors that are available. The choices are largely arbitrary. We want the logo and color to not clash (those can be determined in either order), and since we don't yet have banner art to distinguish communities from each other visually, just logos, we want some varie... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |