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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 fin...

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

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Q&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.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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, ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 und...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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: Who should be able to edit the title, beyond those with the Curate ability w...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 wha...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 commen...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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). Rel...

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

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Q&A 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. So...

15 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 ...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 resul...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 Focusing on the question list (for this answer): With the amount of ...

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

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Q&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, ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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...

20 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Q&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.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 threade...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 Participat...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

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

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Q&A CC BY-SA 3.0 license doesn't show

The imported post is CC BY-SA 3.0 because that's how the source (Stack Exchange) licensed it. That notice reports a license. The list of licenses you can choose when posting here is unrelated. T...

posted 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 send mail for new community

Apart from the email question, which as Art said can be controversial, we want to have a better way to notify people who expressed interest when a new community launches. We'd need to write a whol...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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

Please ignore this answer (if you see it). We need to test a specific scenario involving, ironic, "last activity".

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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