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Posts by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 con...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 we...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y 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 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). Fo...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&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 ...

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

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Q&A 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 does...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Peter Mortensen‭

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Q&A 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 ans...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 the...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A 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 wou...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago 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 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....

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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...

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

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Q&A 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 its...

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

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 updat...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 Vot...

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

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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 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 ...

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

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 E...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 thre...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A 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): From a comment thread page (this particular comment hap...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A "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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭