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Activity for Monica Cellio
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282578 |
I didn't mean to suggest increasing the limit. If you type 500 characters as text, it's a certain size that people have grown used to. With code blocks, a comment could plausibly be 2-3 times as tall. is that a problem or is that ok? The typical case of a few lines of code seems reasonable to me,... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282578 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282577 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282570 |
That's true for "homework problem sets", but sometimes homework is in the form of questions to be answered with words. For example, "when should you use an interface versus class inheritance?" is one I've seen. Granted the homework form might also contain instructions ("be sure to address..."). Bu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282563 |
@#8176 in case this helps: the guidance at the top of the "ask question" page is customizable per community. If Software Dev wants to add something (such as policy links), we can do that. Ideally, work out a draft on SD meta and ping a team member when it's ready. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282570 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282542 |
Post edited: fixed merge conflict |
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| Edit | Post #282542 |
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| Edit | Post #282542 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Art Codidact Site Note: This proposal post has been superseded by the Arts and Crafts proposal on the Proposals site, where you can ask and answer questions to help develop a new site on this topic. Please use this post to indicate your interest in helping to build this community. You can either edit this post (if ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282538 |
The off-topic list doesn't say, but I assume that "technique" questions (how do I achieve this effect) would be not only welcome but probably pretty common?
Are there any arts that are excluded? Are woodworking, blacksmithing, weaving, sculpting, enameling all in scope? What about digital arts --... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282495 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
For comments on the page, to "contain" long threads I'd keep the current approach of showing the first five comments only (not all of them), but if you click the link at the bottom it would load the rest. I think this strikes a good balance between comment accessibility and comments being out of the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
After using it for a while in real contexts (not just on a test server), and given all the feedback, the solution I'd like to see is: you can see all comments from the post page, you can reply from there, and we also keep the link to the separate page because there are cases where that's easier to ma... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282480 |
Oh, thanks for the additional info! My test message wasn't short enough. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282480 |
That's weird. I just logged in with a generic account (no special privileges) and posted a thread here: https://a.dev.codidact.org/comments/thread/66. Did you log out and back in again like it says in the message, and if so did that make a difference? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282479 |
It's also worth noting that the dev server might be running experimental code or might be down at times.
Also, when you sign up on the dev server and get the confirmation email, you have to edit the URL from meta.codidact.com to the dev server. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282240 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
Good point, thanks -- I'll try to elaborate on that in a place more visible than this comment. We didn't want the UI complexity of deep nesting and branching, and we do have plans for reply chains so you can reply to specific comments and see that in the rendering. Haven't gotten there yet. You ca... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282459 |
I think if we log the history somewhere, maybe in mod tools or even for now just in the DB, that'll be sufficient. The threat model would be hostile edits: a comment thread turns into a heated argument and somebody changes the title to "so-and-so is an idiot" or something -- we want to know who did ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282435 |
@#54114 people participate here from all over the world and, even among native English speakers, there are variations -- there's no one "proper" English. Please do help everyone to improve posts by asking questions if they're unclear. Let's keep in mind that everyone's coming from a different backg... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282425 |
Should we move this to the Q&A category, since it's more discussion about one or more proposals than a solid proposal of its own? We had a Q&A discussion about Software Dev before we launched that, so there's precedent. (At the time we had more than one code-related proposal, so this was a "what sh... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282420 |
Thanks Mark. It truly is a group effort. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282420 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282353 |
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| Edit | Post #282376 |
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| Edit | Post #282342 |
Post edited: preference, comment flags, and a little more signal that we're listening and continuing to improve this |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277863 |
Post edited: fixed with threaded comments |
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| Edit | Post #282242 |
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| Edit | Post #282362 | Question closed | — | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
Going to a new page does remove ready access to context (like if you need to consult the post the thread is attached to). It's a link away, but I think that's one issue behind the requests for inlining the thread. Maybe the answer is inlining or maybe the answer is some other change to the thread p... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282353 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277098 |
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| Edit | Post #281617 |
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| Edit | Post #280484 |
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| Comment | Post #282342 |
Thanks - this is good feedback! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
I renamed the thread for you, and thanks for catching that. I didn't think to test who can edit thread titles. On the one hand, if you can edit a comment then you should be able to edit the title (at least if you created it). On the other hand, the title is more of a "shared resource" and we don't... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
Thanks @#53305; that's good feedback. If the thread (where you can add a comment) showed up in-page so you could see everything else easily, would you want to expand to support the whole thread (no matter how many comments), so you could see everything right there, or would you want a scrollbar on t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
I found it odd initially too, @#53207, but it grew on me after I used it for a while. See what you think after a few days. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
Thanks! The "massive wall of comments" problem is very real in some places, so we really wanted to make that better. I think the in-page preview plus separate pages for the whole thread will be a good balance. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in practice; if we need to adjust things we w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282342 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282336 |
Welcome to Codidact! This is a question for Hindus to answer -- what's true for one religious community isn't necessarily true for others. I hope some Hindus and other prospective participants will respond to your question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |