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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #283621 |
HTML, especially modern HTML, is supposed to be *semantic*, not presentational. (It's the CSS that's presentational.) Using a lower-level (more sub-) heading carries different *semantic* information about the document structure, so using a particular [`<h1>`..`<h6>`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/mult... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283490 |
@#8082 It's working now, yes. It *was* failing in the manner I described in the question. I got the same result from several different hosts, using different software, and also with a brand new browser profile, so I dare say that it was *not* caching on my end. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283348 |
There's actually another benefit to this: it puts the answer right next to the question when one links to a specific answer, instead of the answer possibly being somewhere in the middle of the page surrounded by other answers. If one is referencing a specific answer for some reason, that makes it muc... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283377 |
I would be in favor of a self-hosted solution. At presumably low but possibly nonzero cost, it removes an external dependency, let alone one that has had problems at least twice since Codidact got started (I remember seeing a similar issue with avatars once before); and albeit a small issue, especial... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283318 |
Also, the license usually applies to the *content*, not to the *idea*. To protect an idea, one would usually turn to some kind of a non-disclosure agreement, a patent, or trade secret regulations; but none of those make much sense for publicly available content. Putting the content under a restrictiv... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283250 |
@#8046 Seems to be working OK now, at least from an end-user perspective. For collab, I'm now getting a certificate issued by Cloudflare, which the browser accepts, serial 0A:25:C6:0B:9E:9E:0A:73:CD:0D:6F:7A:9F:F4:40:B9 fingerprint SHA-256 D9:3E:74:97:3F:07:08:E0:15:A5:90:A3:0D:60:D4:FF:76:76:D4:83:B... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283222 |
Seems to me the only scenario for which that would help is if you have a large number of forwarding addresses, all of them forwarding to a central account, and you used a forwarding address for Codidact but forgot which one *but* still remember your Codidact password. I doubt that's a common use case... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283222 |
@#8056 For that to work, would it not require that you'd know which email account to check? In which case you either know the email address already (so no need to "recover" it), or the set of possible addresses is small enough that you can easily check them all (in which case why not just try to log ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283221 |
Blocking accounts (even for just a period of time) based on failed logins is a bad idea, as it opens the possibility for a trivial denial of service attack on accounts. Let's not go there. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283152 |
That's an interesting idea, and certainly might help some, but at least on desktop Firefox, it's easy enough to do something similar already. Ctrl+T (open new tab), Ctrl+Z (copy address bar contents from previous tab), Enter, Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/Ctrl+ShiftPgDn to put the new tab where you want it, scroll... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283119 |
Really, this is as it should be, in my opinion. Semantically, the two quote blocks in your second example represent two distinct quotes; that they are adjacent in the content is a separate issue. If you need a blockquote to include multiple paragraphs, the proper way to do that in any medium is to al... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283120 |
There is no need to resort to HTML. (And even less so XHTML; [`<br/>` is XHTML](https://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#h-4.6), while [HTML uses just `<br>`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-br-element). Codidact serves pages with a `<!DOCTYPE html>` doctyp... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283096 |
@#53192 I'm not much of a gamer, but I struggle to think of a question that would be equally applicable to someone playing a video game and someone developing a video game. Still, if you have a reasonably concrete, solid suggested use case for when this feature would be useful, keeping in mind that c... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283096 |
This seems to do nothing to address the issues I raised in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/283073#answer-283073 and also raises another issue, namely that categorization via tags (because especially, but not exclusively, abbreviations) can mean very different things to different communities and in di... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283095 |
*"Quora and Stack Exchange and Codidact can all exist alongside each other, serving different needs"* And Twitter, and TikTok, and WeChat, and Facebook, and WhatsApp, and Dreamwidth, and... well, I guess my point is that I agree that just because something exists out there that doesn't mean that Codi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283079 |
@#8046 There is another issue with a "copy link" actual action link that does what it says on the tin. If I misclick, and that causes valuable information that I have on the clipboard to be overwritten, I am *not* going to be happy about that. If I misclick on "link", about the *worst* that will happ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283083 |
Your question actually contains two very different questions:
\* "Is there any disadvantages for Quora-like community?"
\* "Codidact is copy-paste idea of SE. Do you have any excuse on it?"
The title suggests that you are focusing on the first, and that's what the recently posted answer focu... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74852 |
This now has almost a dozen people who have actively expressed varying degrees of interest. Maybe time to revisit this with regards to the needs-people tag? It was @#8046 who added that tag way back when. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283079 |
@#53922 "Copy Link" to me implies an action, which seems inappropriate here unless the actual intent is to overwrite the user's clipboard contents (which I hope it is not; that's a dangerous thing to do with an unguarded link). "permalink" or just "link" seems a better term. But right now the UI incl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283038 |
Okay, at a glance, it appears to be working as intended now. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283038 |
This sounded promising, but when I was pinged in https://software.codidact.com/comments/thread/3801 after this answer was posted, I didn't receive any inbox notification at all. (My most recent inbox notification is currently listed as 11 hours ago, I marked that as read previously, and I was pinged ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283028 |
Something like that might work. It would certainly serve the purpose in terms of reducing repetitition in the dropdown. As for development, it shouldn't be much harder than something like `SELECT parent_post_id, notification_type, COUNT(*) FROM notifications GROUP BY parent_post_id, notification_type... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283025 |
@#53922 I'm not quite sure what you mean with your #2, but as for #1, while that's a valid point, the size of the dropdown and the size of each notification combine to show only about three notifications at once, which (especially as they aren't grouped together by post, but simply listed in reverse ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283025 |
I'm really curious what the downvotes to this suggestion mean. Do they mean "no, duplicate notifications are useful", or is there something about the suggestion itself that could be improved such as, say, it's unclear what is being proposed? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283018 |
@#53922 That was in response to your statement *"While the proposal isn't available."* (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283018 |
@#53922 Here is the proposal that led to Power Users Codidact: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278833 (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283018 |
*"The site focuses on the maintenance of specifically mobile devices on whatever OS it runs."* Wouldn't that already be on topic on Power Users, which lists as [its scope](https://powerusers.codidact.com/help/faq) "computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardwar... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282195 |
In a similar venue, see also my post [Should post tags go above the post content, rather than below it?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282689) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282904 |
(...continued) (h) people having multiple accounts using them to interact with their own posts from other accounts, (i) the ability of moderators to retract votes, and (j) the ability of moderators to retract reactions; and that's assuming that I'm not missing anything. I don't see any specific, conc... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282904 |
I struggle to see what your suggestion/idea actually is. This post seems to discuss (a) the "reputation" number, (b) a future feature (reactions), (c) what should be shown on a user's profile, (d) which specific reactions should be used by communities, (e) that users who downvote for some specific re... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282689 |
@#53922 As I wrote in the question, which you are already quoting from: *"especially someone not navigating to it through the questions list"* (where "it" refers to the question) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282680 |
@#8082 Please review your decision to close this as duplicate. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282680 |
I disagree that this is a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281910. The two are certainly related, but that bug report is about navigating to a *specific* ability (and also, in spite of it being tagged only status-planned, appears to have been fixed) while this bug report is about the gene... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282639 |
@#54114 Whatever font that is in your screenshot, it's almost certainly *not* actually Helvetica because [Helvetica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica) is a [proportional font](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface#Proportion), while your screenshot clearly shows monospaced text. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282553 |
This still seems to be an issue. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282639 |
How it renders for me in Firefox matches @#53922's screenshot very closely. Judging by the screenshot, your browser is rendering the text using a very different font than for either of us. @#54114, can you please try this with a brand new browser profile (or whatever functionality Chrome has that mat... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282502 |
I already suggested in response to your [Movies, TV, Drama](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282433) proposal that you should make your posts more self-contained. Knowing that some other site has some community at some URL does *nothing whatsoever* to help anyone understand why Codidact should have su... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282433 |
My downvote on this proposal means simply "this proposal needs more work", not "I am against the idea of such a site". Don't assume that people will go elsewhere to figure out what you are proposing. @#53696 - this seems like a common issue with your posts in a variety of places across Codidact; you ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282308 |
@MarkGiraffe Information Security SE certainly covers "cybersecurity" in the sense of "information systems security", so I'm not sure what OP means by the first paragraph. It also covers other aspects of security, including physical security, though at least previously, computer-related security ques... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282148 |
Another alternative for the thermometer would be to put it just above or just below the question title, with all three elements in one row. Yes, that'll steal some amount of vertical space; but it will pay huge dividends in terms of horizontal space. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282108 |
@mattbrent I haven't looked again, but certainly when I looked in the developer tools, it sure looked like they were different sizes. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282106 |
@OlinLathrop The post I linked to already includes CSS that renders the avatar in a manner that restricts the size to a maximum width and height respectively, while respecting the aspect ratio of the image. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282110 |
Several good points here, so +1, but it might be even better if this was split into multiple answers so voting can more clearly indicate agreement/disagreement with each. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282005 |
I too was going to suggest using `site:codidact.com` with one's favorite search engine. ([DuckDuckGo](https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/) also supports that specifier.) Who knows, maybe it'll even bump Codidact just ever so slightly in their rankings? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281997 |
https://meta.codidact.com/ca/category/3.png shows [Ability pages 404 when logged out unless they're for a specific user ("?for=" in the URL)](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281910) (another hot post) for me now, so there's clearly some degree of randomness involved at least. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281882 |
Just be careful so it can't be used to send arbitrary-content e-mails to arbitrary e-mail addresses. It's probably hard to end up being labelled as a spammer much more quickly than offering that feature to the world... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281895 |
@Istiak At least answers can be deleted (and undeleted) even if they have been voted on, if that's what you are referring to. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281818 |
The Rigorous Science divide on Scientific Speculation is not so much subjective allowed vs disallowed, as the level of rigor wanted in answers. One could perhaps imagine a subjective question about, say, psychology, where answers are backed by scientific refs. Of course, a poorly written question is ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281235 |
Since we don't get anything for April 1st, maybe we can have [this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278377) fixed, say, some time April 2nd, because everybody loves Fridays? (The stretched image is mildly annoying, and hey, that post even includes a CSS then-fix; not sure if it can be used directly a... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281238 |
[codidact.org or codidact.com](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277160)? I suspect you meant codidact.com. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |