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Posts by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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. codidac...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 fo...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 abilitie...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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....

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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. (Th...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ini...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 i...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 pl...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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, speci...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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, Scientif...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&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 automatic...

posted 5mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 d...

posted 2mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 accou...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 slight...

posted 4y ago by Canina‭

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