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Posts by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Could "last activity" link to where it happened (e.g. specific answer)?

On a list of questions or posts, each entry has a "last activity" indicator showing who last changed it and when. Would it be possible to have "last activity" be a link to the post that changed? ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ow...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Blog Newsletter #2 (June 2020)

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Hot Network Questions like feature?

I think a system where sites can somehow nominate questions for broader publicity would be helpful, but I don't think we want to repeat the mistakes SE made with hot network questions. We've talke...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tag updates, including tag hierarchies

We have just pushed some updates related to tags. You will now see a "tags" link in the category bar (next to "posts"), which leads to a searchable list of all tags. Selecting an individual tag t...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by pnuts‭

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Q&A Post on Stack Exchange and Codidact

You own your posts and are free to do with them as you choose, including posting them in more than one place -- here, Stack Exchange, Quora, Reddit, etc. By posting on Codidact you grant us a lice...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals?

We have some software (but not software-development) proposals: "Superuser-like" community for software applications office suites Linux Are these three separate, distinct commu...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&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 yo...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts

I'm photosensitive and bright white backgrounds bother me too. Dark-mode themes tend to fail me in other ways, so I usually try to soften the bombardment of bright white pixels instead. In case i...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 k...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 o...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow

Partial answer, which I hope to flesh out later (but probably won't have time today): I hope that people will ask questions here, regardless of whether they've been asked elsewhere, when someone h...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Bootstrapping: who can speak for a community?

Our initial communities will almost certainly be groups of users from SE communities. A mature community should choose its own moderators and those are the people who can speak for the community w...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Terms of Service: contact on termination

We generally attempt to contact users. We can't guarantee that the address originally provided still works, or that our message won't be filtered by your email provider, but we do make the attempt...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 Re...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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. Nominal...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why isn't there a "contact us" button in the footer of this website?

You're right, and that's been on our to-do list for a while, sorry. You can send email to support@codidact.com. We have a support portal under development; email actually flows into that now and ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What customizations are available on Codidact?

On Codidact, lots of things can be customized for individual communities. Generally these changes need to be made by admins, but we'll make them on request. But what are all these things? What c...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Future planning: what user preferences would be useful?

I am starting to think about user preferences. This won't happen for a while, but I'd like to gather input so we can start thinking about a functional design. Currently a user has a single account...

19 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by fedorqui‭

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Q&A Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question?

Today I saw the following question on Software Dev (this is the beginning): (rest of post...) The title, "connect with SLOT/SIGNAL:QPushButton clicked signal not received by main window" sounds li...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭