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Posts by Canina‭

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Q&A "Vote on Holds Ability" page contains unrendered Markdown

The page describing the Vote on Holds ability, under "What does this ability allow me to do?", has what appears to be unrendered Markdown: The reasons for placing a post on hold vary from site t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by sau226‭

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Q&A Should users without the ability to review suggested edits see the 'suggested edit pending...' text if they cannot see the diff?

Should I be able to see the suggested edit? I would suggest not. It's better to interact with the post in its current state, whatever that is; doing so makes it much clearer after the fact wha...

posted 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 With abilities here, where did my Software Development question (posted Saturday 13:58 UTC) go?

I recently posted a question on Software Development, How can I write an egrep (grep -E) regexp that matches lines containing two stanzas in arbitrary order? (Internet Archive copy). (Addendum: it'...

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

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Q&A User posts list "Age" button appears unselected in sort-by-age view

At the top of the complete list of posts for a user (accessible through the user's profile) there are two sort buttons, "Score" and "Age". When sorting by "score" is selected, the "Score" button h...

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

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Q&A Cloudflare breaks typing tag names (results in HTTP 403, ultimately preventing posting questions) when accessing Codidact over Tor

Someone at Cloudflare doesn't particularly like Tor. And because Codidact is apparently hosted behind Cloudflare, that means that by extension, Codidact is at least moderately anti-Tor in practice,...

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

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Q&A Can we allow answerers to see if asker upvoted them?

should there be some way for people (maybe just the specific answerer, or maybe for everyone) to see that the person who originally asked upvoted their answer? No! As already pointed out, thi...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Can we allow answerers to see if asker upvoted them?

Should it be correct etiquette for the asker to leave a comment saying "Thanks" or the like on helpful answers? That's something a community should decide on its own; it doesn't need to be the...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A URLs in category feed should match URLs on category front page

The category questions list page (including each site's front page) uses the shorter URL paths, such as /q/1234, to link to posts (usually questions, but sometimes articles). However, the category ...

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

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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 Show last user names if users change their user names

I disagree that this would be desirable. First, unless we want people to focus on the user, instead of the content, who posts something should have little or no bearing on anything. Act on whether ...

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

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Q&A Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting

I propose that a category should be possible to set such that questions are closed by default (with a specific, selectable close reason that applies to all questions posted to that category) immedi...

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?

status-partially-completed: can now set per community (but not per category). Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type I'm adding this as an a...

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

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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 Allow licence change when there's only one contributor

It should be possible for you to fix your mistake by, if nothing else, deleting the post and re-posting it with the correct license. Doing so would effectively dual-license it, under CC-BY-SA and C...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Horizontal scroll bar is out of view in some code blocks

If a code block has longer lines than will fit within the width of the code block, there is no indication that this is the case, nor any obvious way to scroll horizontally. For an example, see dig ...

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

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Q&A Proposal: tool for user-requested import of a single question and its answers from SE

We don't care about /.../ edit history. I'm going to disagree here, actually. Edits can be substantial in their own right, introducing new content from users other than the original author of the...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A User avatar image is stretched (image aspect ratio not maintained) in the top bar

User avatar images get stretched in the top bar because they are resized to a 1:1 aspect ratio (specifically 40x40 px) regardless of the image's actual aspect ratio. This isn't a problem for square...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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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 What is clicking the inbox icon in the top bar actually supposed to do?

I'm starting to wonder if my earlier bug report was based on a misunderstanding. If it is, though, I think the UI needs to be clarified. Anyway... Just what is expected behavior when the inbox ico...

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

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Q&A Mathematics isn't listed in the site footer or on codidact.com

Mathematics Codidact was launched almost two weeks ago now, but it still isn't listed on the Codidact front page or in the page footer. Could it be added?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Codidact is a Q&A platform or a teaching community?

Allow me to go out somewhat on a limb. I get the feeling from your post, and your posts in general, that you're thinking "Codidact this" and "Codidact that". Here's a friendly piece of advice: Beyo...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 elemen...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 suspe...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭