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Activity for Canina
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #280711 |
@OlinLathrop The question you quote in your comment wasn't asked by paulocoghi, but by @10Rep. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280709 |
@OlinLathrop I'm struggling to see what is the principal difference between my answer and yours, particularly considering each's opening sentence. (You used "always", I used "absolutely". Neither is the entirety of the answer.) The question being asked here is about bringing over *one's own content*,... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
I don't suppose there's a way to send one's details that doesn't involve giving Google the complete mapping between e-mail, Codidact username and full name and address in a nice, machine-parsable form? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280225 |
For someone who doesn't use Reddit, let alone some specific part of it, what is this "Change My View" Codidact community supposed to be all about? Who are the experts? Roughly what kind of questions would it have? What kind of people are likely to ask them? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280054 |
Now it's overflowing in the other direction: https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/5fFVd4YueZ4iEV3BktgZW4Bi (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279989 |
I don't think this should be \[status-completed\]. Certainly the Scientific Speculation example is *not* fixed; the question still shows as "last activity 3 days ago by DonielF" in the questions list, but there is very clearly an answer that was "posted 2 days ago". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280053 |
There are definitely parts of this answer that I am not at all sure about on a *network-wide* scale (which is not to say that they might not be reasonable choices for *individual communities* to make, and therefore would be beneficial to support somehow as *options*), but the idea of having the bragg... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280045 |
Looks the same to me, regardless of whether I'm signed in or not. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280038 |
Seems to be working for me now, can't confirm it was a problem before :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279887 |
Nice. It looks like this also resolves my old suggestion that [URLs in category feed should match URLs on category front page](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279507). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279741 |
@Chenmunka That sounds like a bug to me. @luap42 might be able to comment further. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279835 |
Suggesting four different communities in one single post makes it rather hard to know what's being discussed. Would you be willing to either (a) make it one proposal for a single community to cover all four subject areas (we could split later, as there was discussion regarding Software Development, o... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279801 |
@MonicaCellio Since we're analyzing, doesn't "has been" imply that one event occurred before the other? "This question is addressed at (link)" would probably be more neutral in that respect. (Come to think of it, can post types other than questions currently be closed as duplicates? Articles, for exa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279802 |
Maybe even "is addressed elsewhere" instead of "has been addressed before", in line with Monica's comment on the question and removing the temporal relation implied in "has been". (I can't seem to edit my answer for some reason; trying to do that results in an internal server error.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279741 |
@luap42 I meant to imply that with the "all sites", but yes, it's probably a good idea to call out specifically. It did come as a slight surprise to me. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279717 |
Yay! Kudos to whoever finally figured this one out. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278495 |
@PeterCooperJr. That's definitely *possible* in some sense, but it would also likely be fairly heavyweight. I get the feeling that @celtschk's suggestion of a toggle switch might work reasonably well. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279669 |
@10Rep Relative links are perfectly valid in Markdown. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279612 |
It's just making sure! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279560 |
I realize that everyone involved is basically doing this in their spare time, but seeing that at least votes are still missing, could we have an update on the progress of the data recovery? Are we looking at days, weeks, months before everything is back in place? Losing data always looks bad... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279654 |
This seems very much related to my older question [What is clicking the inbox icon in the top bar actually supposed to do?](https://meta.codidact.com/q/278275), except this bug report is far more detailed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279615 |
Why not just, below the list of earned abilities, a link to "see all abilities" or some such? I doubt that making one word in a few-words heading a link is going to be particularly obvious. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279560 |
@MonicaCellio https://web.archive.org/web/20201128085444/https://meta.codidact.com/categories/10 suggests that it might have been *Factual History* and *Defining and Defeating Tyranny*. Does that sound reasonable? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279556 |
@luap42 Under a new ID is good enough for me, thanks for getting my question back. :-) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279560 |
Here's another: votes are missing at least on all answers to [*Bit-rate vs Baud-rate* on Electrical Engineering](https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/279484). IIRC the tallies were +3/-0, +1/-0 and +1/-0, but they are currently +1/-0, +0/-0 and +0/-0. (Edited to add a link to some [corroborating... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279504 |
@FoggyFinder Unfortunately, for a brief while, the redirection was done as a permanent redirect instead of as a temporary redirect. This was fixed pretty quickly by the team, but permanent redirects are allowed (and encouraged) to be cached in various ways by the browser. Clear the browser cache, che... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279504 |
In that case, no news is *not* good news! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279491 |
@luap42 Computers do tend to prefer that things be named, even if the name makes absolutely no sense to anyone, including the person doing the naming. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279465 |
It's not an *exact* duplicate, but (a) I'm almost certain this isn't user-configurable at present, (b) the "site default" and "category default" can be changed by an administrator, but that applies to all users; and (c) I'm closing this as a duplicate of my post where I suggest adding such a user pre... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278171 |
@Lundin **Thank you!** That doesn't solve the problem, and I still think this needs to be fixed, but only opening the dropdown from the index page does seem to at least be a solid workaround. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279372 |
Adding to Monica's comment above, also of course [Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/), where people can ask about how to tell a science fiction or fantasy story *of their own creation*. (Or any other kind of written matter, for that matter; pretty much everything from blog posts to technical arti... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279371 |
Does the (IMO rather overzealous) autosave not work for you? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278726 |
See also: [How is Codidact financed?](https://meta.codidact.com/q/276569) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278705 |
@Mithical That, too. I considered that a subpoint of the "people want a break with the name they've been using" point, but it's a good example so I added an explicit mention of that case. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278656 |
@Mithrandir24601 Not a post type; a category setting. The post type that would be most useful for this would most likely be Question for the foreseeable future. @MonicaCellio Technically yes, I suppose using Articles could accomplish much the same thing, but I'm not sure it's really an advantage to h... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278605 |
For your "copy post" function, it is possible, at least for a moderator, to move a post from one category to another. The post URL is independent of the category the post is in (the post ID does not change), so this solves everything except the reference back to within the sandbox area. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278605 |
You might be interested in my feature-request [Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting](https://meta.codidact.com/q/278656). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278488 |
Also, what if that is done *somewhere other than in an answer directly to the question*, say, in a blog post elsewhere? Such use might be in compliance with, say, CC BY-SA, but not CC BY-NC-SA. Lots of complexities that might need consideration. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278488 |
Regarding the last bullet point, consider also where someone answers a question and, in doing so, quotes part of the question. If the person who posted the question then changes to a more restrictive license, does that affect the use of that material in the answer? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278494 |
I don't think there's any inherent contradiction between liking a feature and advocating for it to be selectable by the user, but that's just me. :-) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278494 |
@OlinLathrop Not everyone wants their works-in-progress to be saved to a remote system, for a variety of reasons far beyond the ability to reset the state of a post *edit*. Besides, this should be quite easy to implement, especially if we assume some kind of overall preferences infrastructure already... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278501 |
I agree with @MonicaCellio here. This is an interesting idea (I'm not sure I'd use such a view myself, but I can certainly see how some people might find it useful), and it can probably be broken down into a handful of actual specific features, but it's a bit beyond the scope of *this* question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278490 |
Regarding my default license setting proposal, note that the proposal is per community and category, possibly per post type. So one could select a different default license for Writing Q&A compared to Writing Challenges, and possibly a different default license for *questions* in Writing Q&A compared... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278476 |
I think this needs an example or two. https://writing.codidact.com/posts/277446/history (Writing Q&A, category ID 1) and https://math.codidact.com/posts/278447/history (Mathematics Q&A, category ID 41) both seem to me to link back to the question just fine. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278446 |
Another potential *con* would be increased complexity in the UI and UX. People understand something that signals "this is good" or "this is bad", for some values of "good" and "bad" -- things like "upvotes", "likes", "thumbs up", or a variety of other ways to express the same thing. How many will und... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278406 |
@MonicaCellio What @Moshi wrote matches the rendering in my browser: there actually **is** a horizontal scroll bar, but I completely overlooked it because one has to scroll to the bottom of the embedded scrollable code to see it. If I overlook it, I can't imagine how confusing it might be for less te... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276824 |
I think including all UNIX-like systems (including the various free \*BSDs as well as commercial UNIX variants, including Mac OS X to the extent that the UNIX-like portions are what matters) makes sense. A reasonable restriction might be that programming questions that require a separate step *before... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278370 |
For the benefit of others: The setting is in [profile > Edit](/users/edit/profile) > Preferences > Enable or disable keyboard shortcuts. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278294 |
I'll hazard a guess that the problem is that whatever renders the Markdown to HTML sees only one post (the question, or a single answer) at a time. So the ID numbering starts over at 1 for each new post, resulting in multiple `#fn1`, `#fn2` and so on anchors in the document tree. A brute force soluti... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278231 |
@luap42 Well then, that pretty well settles *that* part at least. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |