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Notification dropdown sometimes doesn't open when clicked This has been a recurring problem for me. Sometimes (far from always, but far too often to be comfortable), when I click the notification dropdown "inbox" icon, it simply fails to open; the element is selected (a dotted line is drawn surrounding it) but nothing else happens. This is on Firefox ESR... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: [status-completed] posts bury everything else I would like to offer a third alternative. Don't make post-bumping edits in bulk. I don't know the process that led up to those posts being retagged the way they were just now, but I strongly suspect that they didn't all need to be retagged at once. So, then, the obvious option would be to r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How do I turn off keyboard shortcuts? I'm sure there are people who love the keyboard shortcuts. However, I find them to (a) be somewhat overzealous (just now, I was somehow redirected to the "ask question" page while I was writing an answer), and (b) not really add any value for me. Therefore, I would like to turn them off for me.... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Answer edited, shows as activity on the front page, but not on the answer This answer on Writing Codidact has been edited. The question currently shows on the category front page as "last activity 1 day ago". However, on the question page, there is no indication that the answer has been edited by anyone. The category feed does show it as "updated" at the time of t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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"Forbidden" ("403") page actually uses HTTP status 401 Unauthorized instead of 403 Forbidden for deleted posts without permission There's a variety of actions which results in a display page saying "403 FORBIDDEN"; for example, accessing a deleted question without sufficient reputation to view deleted questions, including when not signed in. However, the actual HTTP response code for that, as used in the HTTP response, is no... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: auto re licensing One major problem with changing the license on a post after the fact is that it affects not just the original contribution, but also every change to that post made by others; in your proposed case, over a period of 50 years. That's potentially a lot of changes. This is a reason why many open-sourc... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: closure-as-duplicate post notice is inaccurate Maybe what we need here is some way to close a question as "superseded by" another question; not really a duplicate per se, but something that works similarly from a technical and user perspective, with different display strings in the UI and a different implied direction of causality. That would ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we have "Last seen" times? I would be inclined to argue against keeping track of "last seen" times; and even more so against publicly dispaying it. From simply a legal perspective, there's the issue of the GDPR's requirement for data minimization. (See for example the GDPR, article 5 paragraphs 1(b), 1(c).) While one could ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: "User Profile" should be more informative. > The number of /.../ posts edited by the user This information is already basically available. Fair enough, it's not the number of posts edited, but the number of edits made. If you open a user's profile, then go to Activity, there are aggregate counts for posts, comments and edits available i... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: "User Profile" should be more informative. > The number of /.../ people reached I disagree that this would be a useful piece of information. Yes, I know that Some Other Q&A network displays such a number; relatively prominently, even. I have always considered it mostly a gimmick, because quite frankly, it doesn't really tell you anyt... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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What are my options for access to my data being processed by Codidact? The GDPR requires (article 20 right to data portability, paragraph 1, in part) that: > 1\. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel > ARTICLE 18 > > The panel has the sole power to remove moderators for Codidact rule violations. In emergency situations the Codidact team can temporarily remove or suspend a moderator, but they need to initiate a proceeding and move a panel decision for removal and continuing the temporary remova... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel > ARTICLE 4 > > After every election, the Panel elects one member as chairperson. I fail to find any other reference to the role of chairperson in the proposal. Especially considering that a "reporter" is assigned separately for each case, for what purpose is a chairperson elected among the mem... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What does ☗ mean? Administrator. If you hover (or, if you're on mobile, however you display the span title attribute), it'll show a tooltip "Administrator". (I tried to make a screenshot, but for whatever reason can't upload it, so you'll have to make do with a description in text.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Impolite comments I would suggest to flag the post the comment is on and specify in the flag text that you're flagging to draw attention to a comment and which specific comment. Until comments are flaggable in their own right, that will at least draw the attention of a site moderator to the fact that there's a prob... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Difference between Codidact.org and codidact.com In short: codidact.org is about the project that aims to produce the Codidact Q&A software, the source code for which (currently QPixel, licensed under AGPL-3.0) is available on Github. codidact.com is one installation of the Codidact Q&A software, which hosts several Q&A communities. It's m... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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"You were mentioned in a comment" notifications should show the title of the question The notifications drop-down shows the question title at least for comments that don't specifically ping you, and for answers to your own questions. However, if you're "mentioned" (pinged) in a comment, the notification only says "You were mentioned in a comment" and indicates which site that comme... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can I conveniently opt out of Codidact analytics? It's not exactly an opt-out, but since you already have Privacy Badger installed, you can use it to block the requests. To do that, simply open the Privacy Badger drop-down, and pull the slider for analytics.codidact.org all the way to the left (the crossed-out circle for "blocked"). Alternativ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Answer license defaults to site default, not category default I just noticed when posting a fourth writing challenge that the answer license there defaults to CC BY-SA 4.0. That's the site default license. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the default license for the Writing Challenges category is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. It seems to me that answers should... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we get a page with links to all of the top level posts from across the network as they are created? You can already get something somewhat kinda-sorta similar to what you're asking for, but you have to work a little to set it up and it's not actually integrated into the Codidact UI. The key is that each category on each site has its own RSS (technically: Atom) feed. It's linked to near the botto... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Personal Productivity site I'm wondering if there would be any interest in a personal productivity Codidact site. Some things I can see being discussed on such a site: methods of organizing things that need to be done and/or tracked (Getting Things Done, Scrum, Kanban, ...), and how to achieve a specific goal within th... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Deleted posts should be accessible to the creator *or* there should be a warning Monica wrote in a comment that this is being added to the list of things to do, so I suppose we should see a fix some time in the near future. I would like to make a very much related request. Authors should always be able to see their own deleted answers, regardless of the reason why the post ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Community Ad Templates now available > [status-completed] - This has been completed. Furthermore, exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is now possible. The more I think about this, the more I think that we need one more variant. Looking at the screenshot in the question, we've currently got: ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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How to remove a given tag from all questions where it is used? When Scientific Speculation was populated with questions and answers from Worldbuilding SE, it also inherited the Worldbuilding SE set of tags. Specifically for the purposes of this question, it inherited the \[science-based\] tag; which seems kind of redundant on a site geared toward scientific s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Can I use @Username to notify users from within my question or answer? Let's please not! I know different people have different views on this, but if the focus is on the question and on getting quality answers, then why would it matter who answers, to the extent that you actually need to notify a particular user about your question? If someone is interested in a p... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Tags shown on a question can differ from tags shown when editing that question I noticed that How can I shorten a piece of writing without losing its original essence? on Writing Codidact appeared to be tagged writing-instruments, but the question does not relate to writing instruments (pens, pencils, computers, typewriters, ...). So I figured I would remove that tag. Howeve... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Post action links that cannot be used should be hidden When I'm signed in, I see a set of post action links such as the following (this is from a question): > Permalink | History | Suggest edit | Close | Delete | Flag The "Suggest edit" changes to "Edit" if I am able to edit immediately. However, when I'm not signed in, the corresponding set of ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Permalinks should be HTTPS Each post on Codidact has a "permalink" link under it, which points back to the post. The general format seems to be `http://.codidact.com///` where the first ID is the top-level post's ID, and the second ID is the follow-up (answer) post's ID. For question and article posts (as currently opposed ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Some user avatars are referenced over HTTP when the page is loaded over HTTPS, triggering mixed content handling I noticed that visiting Using accents while staying legible on Writing triggered a mixed content warning in my browser. Another example is How to train readers in Argot or Slang (full disclosure: I have posted an answer to the latter question). It seems that some user avatars are referred to throu... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Comment character count does not reset when posting the comment Whenever you are typing a comment on a post, there's a live-updating character count that shows how many of the allowed 500 characters you have used so far. However, when you post the comment, the indicator doesn't reset. So if I write a comment "Hello world!", the character count quite correct... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Show me the rep! I get what you're saying. I've wanted the same feature occasionally, because I think it's nice to see at a glance which posts people like, and which posts people dislike (or, in the intermediate case, even just find neither particularly helpful nor unhelpful). However, keep in mind that reputation... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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The list of questions for a user should indicate the category the question is asked in Currently, the "Questions by [someone]" list lumps together all questions, regardless of the category. This mixes meta questions in with actual Q&A. Can we please have something in that list to indicate the category each question is posted in? I'm thinking that adding something in the details t... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Signing in should sign you in on all sites It looks to me like the session cookie that holds one's user session credentials is currently bound to the specific site. The result of this is that you need to sign in separately to, say, Scientific Speculation and Codidact Meta. If that is correct, then if the cookie was set to apply to all s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? I don't know enough to have a full answer, but one differentiation that I think makes sense is for embedded systems programming versus more commonplace programming (desktop, web, server, ...). The reason for that is that embedded systems programming often has very different constraints than what m... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Following the "sign out" into a new tab results in 404 Not Found I'm honestly not sure what is going on here. Once I'm logged in to a Codidact site, if I click "sign out" in the top right corner of each page, I get signed out -- which is exactly what you'd expect. However, if I follow that link such that it's opened in another tab -- Ctrl+click, middle-click... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Answer own question before anyone else can? I don't think there's a dedicated feature for that. However, nothing prevents you from writing up an answer separately, then cutting and pasting it into the answer form just after you've posted the question. That should certainly be doable within half a minute or so of each other, so at least d... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: A newbie friendly and non-judgmental site focusing on Q&A related to Cloud technologies What's Cloud? I'm honest in asking about that. You wrote in a comment: > As long as the question has context associated with cloud computing and is ultimately related to learning or implementing cloud technologies, they are all welcome. Further our site should not shun questions asking for g... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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"edit" link below non-Q&A post results in 404 Not Found I tried to edit a recipe I'd posted, by using the "edit" link below the post text. That gave me a 404 Not Found error. Looking at the URL, I noticed that it says /answers/.../edit, which is wrong because that's not an answer. (It's not a question, either.) When I manually changed the URL to /ar... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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URLs in RSS feeds wrongly assume that all top-level posts are questions With the recently added article post type (used to share recipes on Cooking), the URL to the post is `/articles/nnnnn` (where `nnnnn` is the post ID), or `/ar` instead of `/articles` for shorter links. However, the category feed still uses `/questions/nnnnn` as the URL for each post. The result... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: New site setup process? I'm not fully familiar with everything that's possible and not with the current software, but I'm a moderator on two Codidact sites (Writing and Scientific Speculation), so hopefully I can provide some useful insights. > 1 - I want to put up a single page explaining more about the site, what is on... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Proposing Electrical Engineering site What should the site URL be? Based on the same reasoning as in my comments to the corresponding question to the Speculative Science Scientific Speculation proposal, I propose that the URL should be (drumroll please) electrical-engineering.codidact.com It's memorable; it tells you where you'l... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How to do superscript markup? I think those HTML tags get stripped by the server-side rendering, but I do agree that having some minimal such formatting capabilities would be helpful. <sub>, <sup> and maybe a few others would be very nice to have, especially when the full power of Mathjax isn't required for a post. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Trying to edit an answer results in internal server error; edit gets recorded, but not promoted to current revision This is a bit weird. I spotted a typo in an answer of mine, and figured I'd fix it. I was able to edit the answer, but when I tried to save the edit, I got a page telling me there had been an internal server error. (Sorry; I didn't note the error ID.) Unsurprisingly, the typo is still there.... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Don't show the option to create a tag unless no existing tags match the search. I'm not sure this, as suggested, would be a good idea. I fully understand what you're getting at, but I think it would have undesirable, and also likely unintended, consequences. This is a slightly contrived example, but I hope it'll illustrate my point. Writing Codidact has a `terminology` tag... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: More social media/online communities to link to profile. I agree that this seems like a low-priority feature. It would certainly fall into the category of potentially nice to have, but it's not something that seems like a deal-breaker for anyone. As already said, it's almost as easy to just put the links in your profile text. That said, I'd like to add ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Can we have second-factor sign-in authentication via e-mailed one-time codes? I realize that this might be a bit of a niche use case, but I'm going to put it out here anyway. The availability of 2FA via an authenticator app is a great boost to account security. However, there are still people who don't have smartphones, or who might not be willing to tie their smartdevic... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Posts should have a visible indication whether they've been edited, and when the last edit was made Currently, each post is visibly tagged with a timestamp that indicates when it was posted, as well as by whom. Also, of course, posts can be edited; both by the original poster, and by other users. Editing a post bumps the associated question to the top of the front page, ideally with a correct... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Category RSS feeds should feature a post when an answer is posted The category RSS feeds (for example https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/feed.rss) are a nice touch for being able to follow what's going on on a site (or in a favorite category) without having to check in manually. However, there's a discrepancy between the category "activity" tab on the web si... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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