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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) |
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| Comment | Post #275959 |
I'm probably one of the people who are *least* inclined to blame *anyone* specifically, @luap42 :-) I simply want the software that runs Codidact to be as good as it can be, and since I can't really contribute patches, I figure I can at least contribute clear bug reports so others can reproduce and u... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275959 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #275949 |
Looks like it's working. Thank you. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275940 |
@MonicaCellio I'm not particularly partial as to what exactly is in the URL, as long as it works for reaching the post. (more) |
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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) |
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| Comment | Post #275808 |
https://meta.codidact.com/a/275860/275863 has an example of Markdown footnotes, complete with linking back and forth between the reference and the footnote itself. / cc @NickAlexeev (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275857 |
The ability to make changes to categories is not accessible to mere moderators. Or if it is, it's awfully well hidden. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275856 |
@OlinLathrop I'm not an administrator. However, I believe Monica can help you out there. As for the part about showing that one should have moderator powers, that was more in reference to someone who hasn't been a driving force in getting a site set up but being onboarded as a moderator -- such a per... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275856 |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #275821 |
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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) |
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| Comment | Post #275804 |
@luap42 That's more or less what at least I had in mind for the UI for Javascript-enabled browsers. The current simple link to a search page would still be nice as a fallback for those who have Javascript disabled. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275804 |
Maybe one possible, workable middle ground could be a fold-out when clicking Search (sort of like how "add a comment" folds out a comment textbox), with fallback to a specific "search" page in case the Javascript doesn't work, and a link to the specific "search" page for more in-depth guidance? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275776 |
@MonicaCellio Here's one example of a question on EE SE that uses Circuitlab (I make no claims as to its quality): https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/254925 In general, searching for the string "simulate this circuit" on EE SE returns reasonable hits. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275797 |
Myself, I like *Imaginative Science* better than most other suggestions I've seen so far. I think that one captures the fact that it's about things *based* in science, but with imagination added on top of that. Sort of like "what if?" but without the connotation of "anything goes". It also doesn't su... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275789 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #75046 |
Thank you @ArtOfCode (more) |
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| Comment | Post #271673 |
Whatever the issue was, it seems to be working now. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #271672 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #75059 |
Not sure why this got downvoted, to be honest. Seems like a perfectly reasonable suggestion on top of the original one. Default to what everyone is (should be) familiar with, namely a username and password pair; allow turning on extra security on top of that *if and only if so desired*. Not everyone ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #75046 |
It seems to work fine. However, the `.` at the end of the URL can easily be interpreted as part of the link, while in reality it's meant as a sentence terminator. Please remove it in the email to avoid confusion. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #75058 |
Monica pretty well captured what I too have in mind for this site. If you (any "you") can define the magic system sufficiently that *it could as well* be, say, laws of nature -- just laws of nature that work differently from ours -- then chances are that the question is perfectly fine, because those ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74929 |
I've been thinking about this, and if we settle for Speculative Science as the site name, I honestly think we could do worse than speculative-science.codidact.com (with or without the hyphen, though I'm inclined to prefer with over without). Yes, it's perhaps slightly long; but it's also very descrip... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74823 |
@imsodin There's another issue with "Science-based Fiction" as a name that I can see. While various subgenres of fiction are likely to be major drivers for peoples' interest, the site itself doesn't need to restrict itself to fiction. One source of questions on a similar site elsewhere has been "how ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74852 |
Adding to the above, some of those questions may be appropriate on [Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/) (say, "what techniques can I use to express this idea?") or the hopefully soon-to-be [Speculative Science](https://meta.codidact.com/q/74823) (say, "how can I plausibly get this effect?"). Just... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #75015 |
Also, I see what you did there with "feed" in the context of a cooking site... :-) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #75015 |
*"The two categories feed each other."* Compare: the writing challenges over on Writing (both SE and Codidact) which have sometimes prompted questions being asked on the main site. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75018 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #74951 |
@ArtOfCode Not to rush you, but can you say whether this on the roadmap? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75008 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #74980 |
@ArtOfCode I agree that emailed confirmation codes aren't as secure as a proper 2FA solution. However, between what's already available here and what I'm proposing, there should be something that works for everyone. Also, what I'm proposing (password *before* confirmation code) seems like it should a... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74980 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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