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Activity for Canina
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Allow completely pseudonymous user accounts (I realize that this proposal might ruffle some feathers. Please read through it in full before knee-jerk voting. Also, I use "anonymous" in the proposal text for simplicity, but it would really be more pseudonymous than anonymous.) One part to the EU/UK GDPR is that personal data must be necessar... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
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Autosave preference keeps getting reset to ON I just had to go into my account preferences and turn autosave off again because it somehow had been reset to on. I know that I went through all Codidact communities a while back (maybe a month or two ago) and turned autosave off everywhere. This isn't the first time that has happened either. W... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
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A: Categorical or criterion-based voting This use case is already covered by reactions. The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed. If a po... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Proposals site is not listed on Codidact home page There's a link right there, if you look under "The community I want isn't here!" Proposals isn't intended to be a full-fledged community in its own right; it's intended to be a place where it can be determined whether a community has community support and can attract high-quality content. As such,... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Could we adopt the domain “.cd”? In addition to the issue of cost, there is also the issue of control of the top-level domain. While political events in Congo perhaps do not dominate world news, events over the past few decades) don't at a glance inspire confidence in the long-term political stability of the country. (I do sincer... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
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Post owner should always be able to approve or reject edits Apparently the owner of a post cannot approve a pending suggested edit on that post. I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request, but either way, I propose that the post owner should always be able to approve or reject a proposed edit to their post (of any type) because, frankly, did... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Am I allowed to participate here, despite being network banned from Stack Exchange? I'll largely echo the existing answer. Despite some elements being very similar, Codidact is not Stack Exchange. What you did, or did not, do on Stack Exchange, were you there, does not automatically carry over to Codidact. Your current status, good or bad, on Stack Exchange does not automat... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: What is the appropriate tone for feedback on questions and answers? > Should you assume knowledge of all site rules? > Should you assume knowledge of only "main" site rules but not all? I'm not sure what distinction you are trying to make here between "all site rules" and "only main site rules". In general I think it's reasonable to assume familiarity with rule... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts? > 4\. Does (or should) the policy depend on which community (i.e. which subsite of codidact.com) the post belongs to? Yes. Different communities, although using the same software, can and will have different standards for what makes a good post. Some aspects of this will almost certainly transf... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? I want to question the premise of this question. In the title, you wrote: > Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself? but in the question body, you wrote among else: > A quick skim of these answer(s) elsewhere would immediately tell you exactly... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: Activity Pub Support I'm not sure if this is actually an answer or not, but as suggested in a comment thread, I'll put it out there and see what happens. My understanding is that Fediverse / ActivityPub support doesn't necessarily have to be both ways. Bidirectional federation is definitely more useful, but there can ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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QPixel goes to the "new post" page when I press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window If I am on some web page (such as on Codidact), and want to check out some detail elsewhere on the web, my usual first step is to press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window, then navigate to do whatever it is I wanted to do. Typically this works fine. With QPixel it does not. QPixel instead t... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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What's happened to Codidact Collab? For a while today, I got DNS resolution failures for `collab.codidact.org`. Now I'm getting a certificate hostname mismatch error; the certificate presented is for `catchall-server-default.s449.sureserver.com` which obviously is nothing like `collab.codidact.org`. What's happening? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Translating the project It looks to me as though there is partial support for translation. Compare, for example, the text strings output in app/views/advertisement/index.html.erb and app/views/suggestededit/categoryindex.html.erb. If you are interested in translating QPixel to natural languages other than English, I susp... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Make user-annotations editable I would actually argue against this. User annotations should, as a rule of thumb, be immutable. If they can be edited, then they can be changed after the fact such that they no longer reflect the situation at the time. Yes, this can be worked around by having a history of revisions, but that's ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Please allow a user to permanently delete their account I'm going to be a bit contrarian here. First, don't get me wrong. I am not arguing that a user should not be able to delete their own account. Of course a user should be able to delete their account. Besides all the reasonable arguments, that's a pretty firm requirement in the EU GDPR. However,... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Allow posting without logging in at least in some communities Adding to the previous answer, your use case is, in your own words > I sat in the bus and wanted to ask something without logging in Realistically, if someone can't be bothered to take the brief moment it takes to sign in, then is that same person going to take the time to come up with and comp... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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Comments count includes deleted comments, which it shouldn't Using this post purely as an example, because I'm quite sure that the problem is general. Observe: At first, we are told that there are "4 comments": > Screenshot showing "4 comments" Expanding inline, the summary says 4 of 4 comments are being shown, so where are the other three? > Scree... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: What should we do to facilitate sharing/recognition of Codidact content? Regarding your third point, > What standard do we use to determine what content is worth promoting? Do we ask moderators or certain users (e.g. those with curate ability) to let us know, or somehow use votes from meta posts to determine this? we already do have the ability to nominate posts for... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Proposal: filters for post lists > Key idea #2: filters can be defined, named, and reused, and we'll provide some built-in ones. "Unanswered questions" seems like one that would be popular, for example. And if you want to refine the built-in "unanswered questions" filter (for example), you can. > > You'll have access to all your ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Does the community have any mechanism to tackle serial (emotional) downvoting? I'll defer to the answer from someone who knows better than me what can and can't be done within the software and by digging deeper. That said, since the votes cast are visible to the user who cast them, of course the data is there; therefore, if there's suspicion of poor voting behavior, the exact v... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? I agree that such a front page looks bad. I also agree with a comment that trying to simply hide poorly received posts is hiding the problem instead of solving it. It's sweeping the problem under the rug, which is just going to leave us with an odd-looking rug along with the problem we already had... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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If a tag search yields exactly one exact match for a tag, go directly to that tag's page When using the search feature in the Tags part of each category, if one searches for something that is an exact match for just one single tag, the page returned lists just that one tag. To get to the list of posts, clicking through to the exact tag is needed. This is reasonable when multiple tags ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Permanently delete duplicated questions and answers? I'm pretty sure you can't. Of course, it would be technically possible for someone with database access to go in and permanently delete a post. But no such feature is exposed in the UI, up to and including users with administrator access. Deleted posts are also only visible to a subset of users... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Deleted answers are being shown to logged-out users, but not to logged-in users without the Curate privilege The title pretty much sums it up. It looks to me as though deleted answers are visible to anyone who isn't logged in, but they aren't visible once you're logged in (at least as a user without the Curate privilege). For example, compare How long does it take for energy to propagate in a circuit?... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Post history diff shows apparently double-escaped HTML entities As Exhibit A, I present revision 2 of Switching to an admin user within Powershell SSH session on Power Users, and specifically its diff view against revision 1 of Stated Post. The post itself contains simple quotation marks (`"`, U+0022), but the diff shows `"` which is the HTML character en... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Actively investing in non niche network websites (Please note that at the time this answer was posted, revision 4 of the question was current. That revision of the question, as the initial revision, had as its first paragraph "I think that the website must have about 5 more new communities in "piquant" topics to become more well-known and contribut... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: A Site for Privacy and Data Protection Enthusiasts As for two of the suggested on-topic scope points, > Questions about the usage and functionality of privacy tools (TOR, VPNs, ...) > Questions about how to better protect your data while being online I would argue that those should be on topic on Power Users, and thus don't need a separate s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Where can I report private issues Follow the "Contact us" link in the page footer In the footer of (I believe every) page, there is a "Contact us" link. Following that takes you to a page that describes how to report issues, specifically calling out security issues as one type of issue that should be handled in a particular manner... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Link to deleted user's post visible on front page but post returns 500; breaks category Atom feed There's a post on the Judaism front page titled Meor eynayim by de rossi by "deleted user" (which looks to actually be a deleted user, since that links to `#` rather than an actual user profile). Following the link to that post results in an Internal Server Error response, for example with error I... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content This is my suggestion for how to implement hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content. For a final decision, when a user saves a post: First, look at their most recent post of the same type (question, answer, article, ...). If that post has a score >0.5 (that is, is positivel... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content There are, unfortunately, a few users on Codidact who relatively consistently make low-quality contributions. These posts often come in bursts and tend to be downvoted fairly quickly, but that doesn't slow them down. I propose that Codidact should implement some manner in which to slow down such u... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Should it be possible to "react" to one's own posts? We now have reactions. However, I notice that there seems to be nothing stopping a user from "reacting" to their own posts. For some reactions, this might make sense. For example, an outdated answer might be kept around for reference or for the benefit of some subset of readers, but the user po... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: I would like basic killfile functionality. I think I can see where this desire might be coming from. However, I also think that what is proposed here is the wrong solution. If a user is consistently being mean and rude over time, then they are clearly neither nice nor respectful. Content that is in violation of the Code of Conduct sh... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Tag edit major weirdness Okay, I honestly don't know what might be up with this. "Major weirdness here", is about all I can say from the perspective of a user. I proposed an edit to A gratis cloud of icons usable as HTML tag values over on Software Development. Specifically, I changed the tags to what I felt was a more re... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Cloudflare "checking my browser" results in a 404 when forwarded to the requested page For some reason, Cloudflare has apparently decided that my browser is untrustworthy as of late, and want to do something to "check" it before allowing me to access Codidact. That's a snag, but wouldn't be so bad in the end were it not for the fact that when the checking (which of course requires J... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Can we please stop linkifying random strings that happen to look like domain names? Currently, strings that look like some subset of fully qualified domain names are automatically turned into links to the corresponding `http://` resource. So, for example, example.com becomes a link to http://example.com, and something.example.com becomes a link to `http://something.example.com`, but... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Show more threaded comments after clicking the title of a threaded discussion I agree that showing just the first five comments is a little on the low end in many cases. I don't think blindly increasing this to "the first ten", or to "all", is the correct solution, however. I would instead propose that, when expanding a comment thread in-place: the initial 1-2 comme... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Other top bar drop-downs should be closed when another is opened By clicking first on the inbox icon in the top bar, then the site selector down arrow, it's possible to open both at the same time. However, it's not particularly useful, as the inbox dropdown will overlap the better part of the site selector dropdown. I propose that whenever a top bar dropdown is... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Renaming a tag rewrites history I proposed an edit to a post to add the then-existing proposal tag. The edit was approved, and the post currently shows as most recently edited by me. Both the suggested edit page and the post itself, however, shows the tag name as community-proposal. It appears to me that someone, probably lua... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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When an answer is shown out of order, the notice doesn't account for sorting by activity When linking directly to an answer, that answer is shown at the top of the answers section and just now, a notice was added to inform the user of this. The phrasing of that notice, however, seems somewhat unfortunate when answers are sorted by activity, as it always seems to read: > You are acc... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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On clicking "edit", the initial comment character count is incorrectly displayed as "0 / 255" When clicking "edit" for a comment, the character count is initially shown as "0 / 255", with apparent disregard for the length of the comment. Making a change, the actual character count is updated correctly and the maximum character count is changed to reflect the 1000 characters maximum for a c... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Introducing the Vote Summary [status-completed] Is it just me, or does that view assume that people are half blind? My browser seems to render the links on the Profile and Activity tabs at a font-size of 16px, but on the Vote Summary tab, they are 19px. > Screenshot of the Profile tab > Screenshot of the Activity tab... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Get a [faq] tag, mods! By definition, if a question is frequently asked, then it's also a duplicate. It seems to me that the proper way to handle frequently-asked questions where each question post aims to be the one place where that question is asked and answered, is not to have a "frequently asked questions" tag, but ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Accessing scientific-speculation.codidact.com over HTTPS is serving a certificate for collab.codidact.org, triggering browser security warnings When I try to go to https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/, I get a certificate warning. Looking at the certificate details, it turns out that the server is actually providing a certificate for subject alt names `collab.codidact.org` only, issued by Let's Encrypt and with a not-before time o... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Comments that contain math are not re-rendered after editing Comments can contain math code that is rendered by Mathjax, just as posts can. (On sites where Mathjax is enabled, such as Physics and Scientific Speculation.) However, if a comment is edited and the comment, after the edit, contains such math code (whether or not it did before the edit), that is ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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collab.codidact.org is serving an expired TLS certificate for HTTPS I noticed that https://collab.codidact.org/ is serving an expired certificate; it has a validity not-after of Aug 9 2021 21:15 UTC. Even though it lists a bunch of other Codidact sites as Subject Alt Names, trying a few, collab is the only one that is having that problem. Another difference is tha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Adding a comment to an existing thread results in Internal Server Error, but the comment gets added I added a comment just now to an existing thread to a question on Power Users. Clicking "Add reply", the response was a "500 Server Error" page with the page title "Power Users - Internal Server Error". Uh oh. When I looked at the comment thread, though, my new comment had been added. The er... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Enabled-state of the "Add reply" button, character count in comment thread view does not update on pasting into comment input field This looks similar to my previous bug report "Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fix is the same. When on the thread page for a comment thread (that is, `/comments/thread/###`), there is the possibility to reply to t... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Multiple permalink links in comments I noticed that there are now suddenly two permalink-target links in comments. From a question page (on a comment posted by another user): Screenshot showing '🔗 Permalink' and 'link' links on gray background From a comment thread page (this particular comment happens to be mine): Screensho... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |