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Activity for Canina
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"Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes Something caused posting an answer to fail for me (the web interface just sat there, the "Save Post" button disabled, but nothing further happened). To recover, I copied the text of the answer into a separate window, force-reloaded the page with the question, and then proceeded to select the text in ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to refer members of community B to a question in community A which suits both communities? You don't. At least not as you discuss here. (There is the possibility of answers to a question in one community having relevance to a different question asked on another community; that's a separate case.) Ignoring for a moment the specific question you're referring to, it's extremely rare for an... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Allow comment thread owner to delete comment threads when only comments from the comment thread owner remain undeleted I realize that there's a handful of trickier cases, for example anything involving multiple users, but this particular case should be relatively straight-forward. I propose that if the only undeleted comments in a comment thread are owned by the user who started the comment thread, then the user w... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Preview post diff before saving It's possible to view the differences between two adjacent, existing revisions of a post through the History feature. Post owners can, of course, make arbitrary edits to posts, save those, and see the results both in terms of the final result as well as such a diff. (Others need the Edit Posts abi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists I was away from Codidact for a few hours and, coming back, saw that I had ⑨ unread notifications. Practically as I was watching it, the number grew to ⑩. This wouldn't be so bad, but it turned out that they really were for just three comment threads. Getting one notification for each comment... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Electronic Gadgets: Revival as "Mobile Devices" "Gadgets" means a lot more than "mobile devices" Ignoring for a moment the actual meaning of "mobile devices" (things that can be transported, possibly under their own power) and focusing instead on how it is used in contemporary language (as in "smartphones and devices using similar design princi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact? I'm not familiar with Reddit. Still, reasoning generally: "nobody ever sees my submitted link" doesn't imply that the behavior isn't in violation of the rules there, let alone that the behavior is ethical. Also, pretty much by your own admission, "nobody ever sees my submitted link" is at least... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Is it possible to delete account community-wise? You only have one account across all of \.codidact.com, so you can't delete it on a per-community basis. See for example the fact that your user ID (number) is the same on all sites, and that the login credentials are the same on all sites. However, if you simply no longer want some content to be ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Should post tags go above the post content, rather than below it? Consider, strictly as an example, the question updating a function within a struct on Software Development. There's a reasonable number of programming languages where something like that might be possible, even when restricting that set to only those that use those terms. The person who asked t... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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When not logged in, the "Abilities" link on the profile page leads to a Not Found The user profile page right-hand column has an Earned Abilities block, which has an Abilities link at the bottom. When logged in, that link takes the user to their own abilities summary at `/abilities`, regardless of which profile was being viewed. That's perhaps somewhat unexpected (I would expec... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! status-completed Notifications don't indicate which post is commented on For example, I got a notification that, other than specifying the community, simply read > There are new comments in a followed thread 'General Comments' Well, that's nice to know. But it forces me to go there to see... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: My opinion about why there should be two medical sciences websites in the network So far, there isn't even one medical sciences site on Codidact, and although there is a Medical Science community proposal, there have been some very valid concerns raised in discussion related to that proposal that I don't see having been fully addressed. Also, I imagine that your proposed distin... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Keep the "expand"/"preview" action link in place Another small detail, but something that has a tendency to annoy me. If I click on "expand" for a question, it does indeed expand to show more text, but then I have to move to "close" it again. If I am unlucky, I even have to scroll to do that. ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Make another pass over the color choices Just some general observations here... Blue background is used to highlight that a question has no answers, but also for action buttons (ask question, filter results, ...), but not all of them (select preset, save preset), let alone action or navigation ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Hover state changes shouldn't cause elements to change size As an example, try using a mouse on desktop to hover over some of the tags in the questions with more than one tag. The change of font weight (normal to boldface) causes the text to change size, which can potentially lead to a whole se... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Emphasize the site name over the network Currently, in the top left corner, where it says `meta.codidact.com`, while the site name portion ("meta") is in boldface, it's also in a slightly smaller typeface. (Looking at the CSS, apparently 15 px vs 16 px. This is enough of a difference to be clearly... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Don't call it "expand", call it "preview" Minor detail, but since the purpose of that feature seems to be to preview more of a post than just the title, let's just call it preview instead. It's a simple change and I strongly suspect it will make it more obvious at a glance what the function doe... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Don't touch my avatar! This was already brought up in a comment, but I want to put it in something that can be voted on in its own right. Let people choose their avatars themselves, including whether they want them to appear as circular, oval, square, rectangular, triangular, trapezoid, with sh... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Promoted posts image renders Hebrew ℵ as "?", but Greek "Α" correctly In this case, an image really is worth a thousand words: What sound did the letter ? encode in ancient Hebrew, and why did it morph into the greek vowel Α? That links to the question What sound did the letter ℵ encode in ancient Hebrew, and why did it morph into the greek vowel Α? The origin... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Deleting a question that has answers that were deleted by System, transfers the answer deletion to the question deleter This was definitely unexpected, and possibly a bug. A question was flagged over on Scientific Speculation that hadn't been acted on in any way on Codidcat and had no non-deleted answers (they were all deleted by System as part of the purge of imported but unclaimed and unimproved content); the answer... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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How are the different site header colors picked? Can the community request a color change? I'm wondering how the site header colors are picked for the different sites. For example, Photography & Video and Mathematics are both purple; Judaism and Music are both yellow or light brown; and Scientific Speculation is red. Is there a common theme here, or are the colors chosen largely arbitra... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Make the license changeable while editing Changing the license of a post after the fact is not currently supported. Limited support for license changes has been discussed, but doesn't currently seem to be slated for implementation. Currently, your best option is probably to delete and re-create the post with the correct license. Note that... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Transferring my questions and answers from StackOverflow and other SE sites In one word: Absolutely! If it's your own content, it's yours to rework and/or relicense as you see fit (or keep under CC BY-SA 4.0 as SE mandated with a twist last I looked, which admittedly was a while ago). If it's someone else's content, you'll need to either rewrite it such that it is no l... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Should there be a community here for Linux users? Rather than adding a bunch of comments to the existing proposal, I'm going to add an alternative scope proposal The community should cover Unix-like operating systems, but only to the extent that the Unix-like portions are what the question is about. This uses "Unix-like operating systems" t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Edit made is in post history, but not applied to the post I just noticed that URLs in category feed should match URLs on category front page doesn't look quite like I remembered it. As I recall, I edited that question just before abilities was introduced. Now, that specific issue is pretty much covered by Posts are now all under a single umbrella, so ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: New Close reason needed In this particular case, I would be inclined to disagree: the question has been answered before. It's just that the answer is actually given in a comment and a tag, not an answer post. "Can we get Feature X?" where one of the people who do a lot of the work on the code responds with "This has been... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Claiming posts sourced from StackExchange I'm surprised that we don't seem to already have a Meta question about this specifically. You claim your posts by linking your Codidact account with your Stack Exchange account. To do that, click on your avatar in the top bar to go to your profile, then the "Edit" tab, and then look under the "Lin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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What does "post positive reception" mean in the context of abilities? There is reference to "positive reception rate" for posts in the discussion on how to earn some abilities, for example the Vote on Holds ability. What exactly does "positive reception" mean in this context? Does it, for example, mean any upvotes? More upvotes than downvotes? No downvotes? Greater ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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"Vote on Holds Ability" page contains unrendered Markdown The page describing the Vote on Holds ability, under "What does this ability allow me to do?", has what appears to be unrendered Markdown: > The reasons for placing a post on hold vary from site to site; the guidance for posts on this site is available in the \[Help Center\]\(/help/faq\). There... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should users without the ability to review suggested edits see the 'suggested edit pending...' text if they cannot see the diff? > Should I be able to see the suggested edit? I would suggest not. It's better to interact with the post in its current state, whatever that is; doing so makes it much clearer after the fact what you were, in fact, looking at. > I would say: either show the suggested edit, or do not show anyt... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? Sort posts in one's own profile by score or age The profile main page includes a selection of posts (currently top 15 by score), which highlights contributions by that user. It would be nice if it was possible to select whether to show, say, the top 15 by score or the most recent 15 posts. The ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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With abilities here, where did my Software Development question (posted Saturday 13:58 UTC) go? I recently posted a question on Software Development, How can I write an egrep (grep -E) regexp that matches lines containing two stanzas in arbitrary order? (Internet Archive copy). (Addendum: it's now back, under a different post ID.) It seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth -- or ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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User posts list "Age" button appears unselected in sort-by-age view At the top of the complete list of posts for a user (accessible through the user's profile) there are two sort buttons, "Score" and "Age". When sorting by "score" is selected, the "Score" button has a gray background and the "Age" button has a white background. This seems to be meant to indicate t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Cloudflare breaks typing tag names (results in HTTP 403, ultimately preventing posting questions) when accessing Codidact over Tor Someone at Cloudflare doesn't particularly like Tor. And because Codidact is apparently hosted behind Cloudflare, that means that by extension, Codidact is at least moderately anti-Tor in practice, if not in intention. I've had occasional issues with things like loading more comments where, instea... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we allow answerers to see if asker upvoted them? > should there be some way for people (maybe just the specific answerer, or maybe for everyone) to see that the person who originally asked upvoted their answer? No! As already pointed out, this could very easily lead to undesirable situations. We don't want to give people ammunition with which... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we allow answerers to see if asker upvoted them? > Should it be correct etiquette for the asker to leave a comment saying "Thanks" or the like on helpful answers? That's something a community should decide on its own; it doesn't need to be the same on every Codidact community. So the appropriate place to bring up that discussion would be in each... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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URLs in category feed should match URLs on category front page The category questions list page (including each site's front page) uses the shorter URL paths, such as `/q/1234`, to link to posts (usually questions, but sometimes articles). However, the category RSS (actually Atom) feed uses the longer version, such as `/questions/1234`, for the same purpose. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Importing StackExchange dumps We've tried something pretty much like that. Specifically, both Writing Codidact and Scientific Speculation Codidact were seeded with content from Writing SE and Worldbuilding SE, respectively. (The former with what essentially amounted to a full copy; the latter with a subset of posts.) It sou... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Show last user names if users change their user names I disagree that this would be desirable. First, unless we want people to focus on the user, instead of the content, who posts something should have little or no bearing on anything. Act on whether it's good or bad content (or proposal, or whatever), not on who posted it. The only case where who po... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting I propose that a category should be possible to set such that questions are closed by default (with a specific, selectable close reason that applies to all questions posted to that category) immediately when they are posted. One major use case for this would be something like a question sandbox, w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? status-partially-completed: can now set per community (but not per category). Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type I'm adding this as an answer here mainly to aid in prioritization relative to other preferences that the community would li... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type Each site and category has a default license that is selected as default for new posts to that category. The license actually assigned to each post is that selected by the user when the post is initially created, and cannot be changed afterwards (though a workaround is to recreate the post and delete... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Allow licence change when there's only one contributor It should be possible for you to fix your mistake by, if nothing else, deleting the post and re-posting it with the correct license. Doing so would effectively dual-license it, under CC-BY-SA and CC0. Since anyone who uses it under CC-BY-SA should also be in compliance with CC0, that shouldn't be a p... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Horizontal scroll bar is out of view in some code blocks If a code block has longer lines than will fit within the width of the code block, there is no indication that this is the case, nor any obvious way to scroll horizontally. For an example, see dig -6 works but dig -4 does not on Software Development. Ideally, code blocks should have a horizontal s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Proposal: tool for user-requested import of a single question and its answers from SE > We don't care about /.../ edit history. I'm going to disagree here, actually. Edits can be substantial in their own right, introducing new content from users other than the original author of the post. (The golden rule for edits Somewhere Else is to always preserve and respect author intent, but... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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User avatar image is stretched (image aspect ratio not maintained) in the top bar User avatar images get stretched in the top bar because they are resized to a 1:1 aspect ratio (specifically 40x40 px) regardless of the image's actual aspect ratio. This isn't a problem for square or nearly-square images, but it is a problem for rectangular images. It looks like this should be fi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Informing community users of new permissible features In addition to points already raised (two links) in answers here, Codidact already supports network-wide featuring of posts; that functionality is currently being used for Coming soon: new abilities system and changes to reputation. Nothing prevents administrators from using that to feature someth... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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What is clicking the inbox icon in the top bar actually supposed to do? I'm starting to wonder if my earlier bug report was based on a misunderstanding. If it is, though, I think the UI needs to be clarified. Anyway... Just what is expected behavior when the inbox icon shows a number, indicating that I have unread notifications, and I click on either the inbox icon or... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Mathematics isn't listed in the site footer or on codidact.com Mathematics Codidact was launched almost two weeks ago now, but it still isn't listed on the Codidact front page or in the page footer. Could it be added? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Codidact is a Q&A platform or a teaching community? Allow me to go out somewhat on a limb. I get the feeling from your post, and your posts in general, that you're thinking "Codidact this" and "Codidact that". Here's a friendly piece of advice: Beyond issues of technical capabilities, don't. Instead, think of Codidact as a software platform and ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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