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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: Can we get a list of questions on a site currently nominated for the Community Promotions? There is now a new section in the moderator tools for promoted posts. It looks like this: screenshot Moderators can cancel a promotion from this page. It would be better if the list of promoted posts were visible to all community members, not just moderators -- this would help communities c... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Seeing deleted posts This was a bug. Deleted posts aren't supposed to be shown on profiles to people who can't also see the posts. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Search box instead of link We had a lot of discussion about how to approach this, keeping responsive design in mind, and decided to add the search icon but not move the search bar into the header. I admit that you don't know on hover, when it lights up, whether clicking it will navigate away or give you a pop-out; we have som... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can auto-saving be individually disabled? You can now set a preference to disable autosaving. See the "preferences" tab on your profile. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Shortcuts for individual categories don't seem to work We've added a "preferences" tab to the user profile. There are global (network-wide) and per-community preferences. We've made keyboard shortcuts a global preference. We don't yet have "global, but with local overrides"; a preference is either global or has to be set on each individual community... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Answer edited, shows as activity on the front page, but not on the answer The cause of this bug has been found and fixed, going forward. Correcting the existing cases of this incorrect reporting wasn't practical, but it shouldn't happen again. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Add a link to the dashboard somewhere There is now a link to the dashboard at the bottom of the site switcher. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Strikethrough markdown not working For anybody puzzled by the question, the strikethrough that shows there didn't work at the time of posting but does now, because the bug is fixed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? We've implemented one part of this (that seems to have consensus and no objections): the tags. I've updated the proposal guidelines, created the three "needs" tags, and retagged many proposals. (Sorry about the churn on the proposals list.) If we find in the course of using them that we need to tw... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should there be a community here for Linux users? There's a lot of interest in this proposal. That's great! There are also questions about scope. We'd like to help this community succeed, and to do that we need everyone (or at least most folks) to agree on what it is you're building. Could somebody add a draft scope (doesn't need to be long bu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Chemistry Proposal 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Biology proposal 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Finance (Not Economics) 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Defining and Defeating Tyranny 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A site for politics 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Accounting community 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage Note: Please see also How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals?. We are trying to work out how this proposal interacts with others. 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... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site for office suites Note: Please see also How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals?. We are trying to work out how this proposal interacts with others. 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... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Travel 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: General Engineering Codidact Website 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How's the interest for a Worldbuilding 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 anticipa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A newbie friendly and non-judgmental site focusing on Q&A related to Cloud technologies Questions about cloud technologies are on-topic on Software Development, as long as they are about the technical aspects. Software Development didn't exist when this suggestion was posted. I encourage you to ask cloud questions there. If later there is consensus that cloud technologies should have... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can the title of the question be a "clean" link to the question itself? Does the "copy link" link below the question meet your needs? screenshot Those of us who came from Somewhere Else are used to the title being a link, but we thought an explicit link would be more discoverable. This doesn't mean we couldn't also make the title a link; we just haven't yet. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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New post type: wiki We've had some discussions here on Meta about shared resource pages -- wiki-style articles that anybody could edit, canonical posts, and so on. My original idea for this was that individual posts could be marked as "freely editable", and this could be used with any of our existing post types (questi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What will become of reputation? (Personal opinion, not official anything.) I'm one of the people who, from the beginning, wanted to change how we handle reputation, because while Someplace Else got some things right with it, their setup also produced some degenerate results that I don't want to replicate. The biggest problem,... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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New answers are not being reported as new activity or bumping posts It appears that new answers are no longer being reported as new activity on the question list and bumping questions. Here's an annotated screenshot: question list highlighting two wrong "last activity" dates https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280005 shows the last activity as by luap42, but Mithi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Heads up: small design changes, a better user card and some long-expected features For some but not all users, the post counts are showing as 0 when that's clearly wrong. For example: screenshot That's from elsewhere on this page. The numbers also show as 0 for me in the user list (and I'm about to find out if they do here too). Update three hours later: Mithical's a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community ad has the wrong logo Logo is now right: screenshot That screenshot is from Meta (I included part of the "hot" list as evidence). Unfortunately, the URL that's being generated is still wrong, so clicking will probably produce a 404. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How can we improve community proposals? Now that we've seen several community proposals, some of which succeeded and some of which have run into hurdles, I want to look at how we're managing and tracking proposals. While there will always be an element of human judgement, I feel like we don't have a good handle on how to decide when to ad... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Rollback Feature for Questions and Answers I agree; "roll back to this version" has been useful on other platforms and I'd like us to have it. I think the interface should allow for a rollback reason, like the edit reason, so the explanation can be attached directly to the edit and not lost in comments that the reader has to match up time-wi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Change not listed in question Tentative characterization of the bug: this happens when a user who does not have the Edit ability makes a suggested edit and that suggestion is approved. Look at the edit history on this question. After Olin's edit the "last edited" indicator was correct. After I edited it was updated correctly (... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Most reputations dropped by 1 (maybe the "starter" 1 rep disappeared for people who had more) A rep recalculation restored the 1 point to everybody. Whether accounts should start at 1 or 0 is a separate question, but they're now consistent again. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Newsletter #5 (December 2020) Hello from Codidact! We have lots of news about our organization, our communities, software updates, and some award nominations. Organization We are delighted to announce that The Codidact Foundation is now a recognized non-profit organization! We've incorporated in the UK as a Community Inter... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Mismatch between number of answers listed and actual number All cases of this mismatch on the network should now be fixed. Thanks for the reports. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Vote counts broken by the update? Found the problem! There'll be a post from ArtOfCode later with more information, but we believe we've now corrected the problem with some votes (cast during the upgrade window) not having been properly recorded everywhere. (They were, err, partially recorded, which made this hard to debug.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Add a more obvious link to the Abilities page Making the "Earned Abilities" heading on the profile page link to the full list (/abilities) seems like a good way to solve this. It avoids adding one more tab on the profile (which is already constrained on small viewports like phones) while putting the link on the relevant part of the page. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Most reputations dropped by 1 (maybe the "starter" 1 rep disappeared for people who had more) The recent database update included a reputation recalculation. Reputation doesn't mean as much as it used to (it doesn't govern abilities any more), but it's still present and visible. In the recalc, almost everybody's reputation dropped by 1. I think what probably happened is that the "starter... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A new answer produces two notifications Since the abilities update, I'm getting double notifications for new answers to my questions. For example, both of the following notifications have the same URL, https://cooking.codidact.com/questions/279584: (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we have a button to insert a table in posts? There is now a new button, which inserts the following markdown for you to populate and expand: | Title1 | Title2 | |- | - | | row11 | row12 | (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: 403 error when voting to close The "Close" link is no longer shown to people who don't have the ability to use it. If you can't vote to close and you think action is needed, you can flag instead. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Replenish votes statistic with "Other" block to make it complete The redesigned profile that came with the abilities branch now also shows a proper breakdown. Example: votes by direction and post type (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Abilities update is here! U P D A T E: It looks like some changes have gone missing after the rollout; we're working on adding them back right now. See this answer for more information. We have deployed the new abilities system! Please let us know if you find any problems - while we've tested the system as much as we ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What is the 'lottery' button for? "Lottery" is a random set of 50 questions. It's a way to be reminded of older posts that have dropped off the front page. I agree with the suggestion that "Random" would be a better label; we didn't think of it at the time for some reason. I also agree that the tooltips could be more informative... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community dropdown and profile information Thanks for bringing this up. I agree; we need to add the concept of a network profile and have a GitHub issue for it. But we haven't gotten to it yet. (Our devs think this is a good first issue for anybody looking to join the team, in case anybody reading this is.) Another way to get to the com... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: "last activity" on the post history of questions is misleading. The last activity shown there was for the whole page, same as what you see in the question list. That's confusing in the history case, as you point out. We talked about updating it to show the correct information, but since the entire history is already shown, you can easily see what the last activ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Implement duplicate up-down vote buttons For the buttons, I propose something bolder: don't duplicate them, move them. The logical time to make a voting decision is when you've read a post, so I agree they belong at the bottom. But why have them at the top? Currently we bundle the reporting of existing votes and the voting buttons toge... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Have permalink button show a popup instead of redirecting The Permalink control now allows you to copy a working URL for the post through the usual browser affordance (right-click + "copy URL" on desktop browsers, long-press on touch interfaces). Oddly, it's not the same URL you get if you actually click the control, but at least you can get a working link... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site for Where is This? Identifying Places in pictures? "Where is this?" sounds like an interesting part of a community, but I'm having trouble imagining a community forming around just that. More specifically, I could see this being part of a general puzzles community, or as part of a travel community, or -- with restricted scope -- part of Outdoors. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Possible Markdown rendering issue Test cases (all look fine in the preview): Link text edited to include period. Link text contains no punctuation. Other punctuation too? What about comma, or exclamation point! -- Copying text from the other answer to see if who posts it makes a difference (I sure hope not): Th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |