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Posts by Canina‭

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Q&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 separa...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 undele...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ou...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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...

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

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Q&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 l...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A When not logged in, the "Abilities" link on the profile page leads to a Not Found [duplicate]

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 /abilit...

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

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Q&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 ...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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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 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, fil...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 ty...

posted 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 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 whe...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Promoted posts image renders Hebrew ℵ as "?", but Greek "Α" correctly [duplicate]

In this case, an image really is worth a thousand words: 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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; ...

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

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Q&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. Curren...

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

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Q&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 ...

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

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Q&A 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...

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

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Q&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...

posted 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 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 thi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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