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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 What mentoring is available for qpixel development?

We're absolutely interested in helping new contributors, and we don't have as strong a mentoring program as we'd like. We encourage prospective contributors to join our platform Discord server, wh...

posted 4d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Add new global flag reason: AI

We have added a new flag type for all post types: Generated by AI: This post appears to contain AI-generated content (such as ChatGPT) without attribution This places the focus on the attribu...

posted 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I view my deleted posts?

I've just tested a small change that would always show your deleted posts on your own profile. Other users (without sufficient privileges) can't see them, as now. Should we always show you your d...

posted 23d ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 22d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Giving question feedback in private - a moderating system to reduce conflicts

It's been a long time since this question was asked, and in the meantime there have been lots of changes to the platform. It turns out we can do most of what you're asking for now, although some k...

posted 29d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Error 500 on Tags page

Update: the 500 error is now fixed; if you pull the Qpixel develop branch you'll pick this up. See below for a workaround in the meantime. (The seeding problem that caused the 500 error isn't fix...

posted 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How are site policies decided on Codidact?

The Policy and Legal sections in the Help Center are policies set by the providers of the network -- in this case, the Codidact Foundation. The Qpixel repository includes "stubs" for these pages f...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A See user activity across all communities

We want to add a network profile. Our initial thinking is around giving you a list of your communities and an overview of your activity there. After we do that, it would be possible to extend it ...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages

I'm glad you found the tag. Another place where some context shows up is on the page you linked to for the git tag:

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Submit same flag multiple times

When you submit a flag we don't refresh the page, and so when you flag again the flag modal doesn't "know" about your previous flag yet. After a refresh, you'll get the "you've previously flagged ...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard

Help topics are static content, so adding the status of your own abilities there is not feasible. The links for the individual abilities in the help are to the same pages as the links in the user-...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tables break words in first column

Not necessarily the first column, but there's something wonky in that one: X Element Description . hydrogen Fusce molestie nibh id tellus semper, at porta nisi rhoncus. Praesent...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What is the difference between the subdomain forum.codidact and the rest of the communities?

As noted in Mithical's answer, the forum was for early bootstrapping, before we had this network up and running. It used .org, not .com, to try to make that distinction a little clearer. After we...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Display post titles instead of the URL for internal links

A step toward this: if you choose "copy link" on a top-level post, you now have two options, the raw link and a Markdown version. The Markdown version uses the post title as the link text. So it'...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org

I am not able to reproduce this. I visited the "create post" page with NoScript turned on and this is what I see: Can you say more about where you saw codidact.org?

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What is Codidact's policy regarding artificial intelligence-generated content?

Due to a technical limitation (working on it...) I can't mark this as a duplicate of our network gen-AI policy, but see that link. To summarize: Presenting non-original work as your own is a ...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should we directly link to the proposals site for new proposals in the Help Center?

Thanks for the report. I've updated this topic to link to How to propose a new community, which describes the process instead of just dropping the person on the Proposals site. Admins have an opt...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Minor suggested edits to old posts

One of the linked questions, about not bumping minor edits, has a suggestion that would have helped in this case: allow edit reviewers to decide if an edit is minor. For that to happen, at last tw...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A A refactoring convenience function.

Sometimes a brain dump is a bunch of questions and answers, and in that case (as suggested in another answer) it's best to do the "dump + refine" step separately and post when ready. That way peop...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Markdown table alignment only renders correctly in preview

Column alignment in tables now produces a warning that it won't render in the final post (it's part of the "unrecognized HTML" warning). Also, the editor preview now shows the same formatting as t...

posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it

I agree that we probably do want people to be able to self-close,[1] as a way to signal "I know this needs work" that's less destructive than deletion. If we allow that, though, then we should do ...

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

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Q&A Inconsistent tagged question counts

The tag count incorrectly includes deleted questions. I see that the GitHub bug tracking this is marked "easy", so I'll see if I can find the relevant query and fix it. (No promises, as I'm prett...

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

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Q&A Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers

In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones. Yes. Community moder...

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

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Q&A How should we phase out the Site Proposals category?

The Site Proposals category is only shown to logged-in users, the text at the top points to the new proposals site, the "post" button says "not here" and refers to the new site, and if you try to p...

posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Recent feature changes to the Codidact software

February 2024 Answers can now be sorted by age, in addition to score (default) and activity. Flag pages for moderators and on the user profile now show when the flags were raised and hand...

posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Linking to posts with anchor text is too hard

Post titles are now self-links, and in addition, the "Copy Link" control (everywhere) now offers two options, raw and markdown:

posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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