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Comment Post #291619 I recalced your abilities manually, so you should now have the ability to edit posts directly, but this does indicate an issue where the recalc script doesn't run or doesn't work correctly, so we'll have to look into it.
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5 months ago
Edit Post #291545 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer A: What is the policy for Codidact data use by other, especially for-profit organizations?
IMHO we need to distinguish two things: 1. It's not really possible per se to prevent for-profit companies from just accessing our web pages and downloading the content from them. We can try to block crawlers of known bad faith actors, as has been suggested before and should, in my personal...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #291328 Initial revision 7 months ago
Answer A: Why discord and not IRC?
The reason Discord was chosen is disappointingly simple: It's just the chat software I used and knew best when I invited some people over from Stack Exchange to start this project. The Discord server for Codidact existed before the network of Q&A sites did. Then the whole thing kind of exploded an...
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7 months ago
Comment Post #288948 @#8046 oops I totally didn't see your comment when writing my answer, so sorry for the inadvertent plagiarism :D
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #289013 I don't get what you mean with pre-chosen, since if you mean specific places (such as "Discord" or "Twitter") that wouldn't be the case [anymore] with my suggestion. I think some explicit metadata are better because 1. they are highlighted in contrast to continuous text 2. they are at an expec...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #289013 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Proposal: remove Twitter from profiles
I definitively agree with the premise of the suggestion, but instead of getting rid of all/most additional input fields and instead of making it a per-instance/per-community thing (which both are generally good ideas), I'd go a step further and suggest to make it a per-user thing. Mastodon has thi...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #278014 Thanks for the nudge, changed.
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #278014 Post edited:
over 1 year ago
Edit Post #288363 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question We need to talk about Abilities
The problem Almost three years ago we introduced Abilities to Codidact as an improved system for granting activity-based permissions, such as allowing users who have made consistently great edit suggestions to edit posts without requiring approval. I'll defer to the linked posts on how Abilities f...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #288361 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Activity Pub Support
When this was initially proposed some years ago, I was very clearly opposed because I did not see much use in such a feature. Having, however, now used Mastodon as my main social platform for almost a year, I would propose to reconsider the previous decision. Codidact has always been about communi...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287476 Post edited:
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #287618 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: Drop down panels drift away from their buttons on zooming
This is pretty much by-design. Zooming in web browsers is not "really" just enlarging the displayed parts, but instead changes a lot of settings/properties for the web page, such as screen resolution/size and base font size. This is generally useful, because it allows websites to adapt to these ch...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #277280 That is correct @#54706; if I recall correctly, our official recommendation is still to delete/put on hold and re-ask in the right community.
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285288 Yeah we have the warning tool, that's right. However I chose not to use it because I presumed - as you confirmed in the question - that there was no malicious intent by you, so a formal warning seemed inappropriate. E-Mail would also have been a possibility, right, but I chose not to look it up in...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285103 Thanks for the report. There seems to be an issue with invalid birth dates stored by them, which we can't fix (through the interface Stripe provides us). We've already contacted them but they have unfortunately not yet responded satisfactorily and now chose to halt transactions instead. 😠
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #278749 Post edited:
almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #279015 Closing as duplicate this way round, because the other answer is more detailed.
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #279015 Question closed about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284733 No repro from me either. (in two networks and from two devices)
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284643 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Show headings in a preview
Disagreeing with that. I don't see a need for showing the title in a "preview". For the body, there is a need because something different will be shown in the final post than what is entered into the textarea, because the markdown is renderer into HTML. However post titles are shown exactly as ...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284472 Like the idea. Added some extra steps to your basic proposal to allow for "strictness configuration"; will post next week once back at my Laptop.
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284491 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Put the title input field above the body in comment threads
Disagreeing with that for two reasons: First of all, the same argument as for posts applies that title should be written after the body because it is intended as a kind of summary and you can't summarize something that hasn't been written yet. The idea of the title is to give users a quick overvie...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284488 Putting this on status planned because it is a good idea. I'm mostly unavailable this week for personal reasons, so this might take a while to get implemented. Also, I think adding given reactions to your (public) activity feed might be a good idea too (since comments are there too and there is no an...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284488 Post edited:
about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284458 Err... that wasn't formulated clearly. I mean that, besides fixing, you could also just add a warning/disclaimer into the post. For example "The solution proposed in this post only works with Python version 1.0.0 or earlier" or "Attention! This is ***very*** hot and you could easily burn yourself if ...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284458 TBF I don't really see a reason why you would ever want to self-react on a post. If you found a post outdated or dangerous, best recourse would be to edit the post and to address the issue. So I suppose we could also completely prohibit self-reactions without much trouble.
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284455 @#53503 did you sign up for the moderator newsletter? If no, you should probably do that; the link is in the "So you are a moderator" help entry
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284455 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Question More answer feedback -- Reactions are coming to Codidact
A bit over a year ago, I proposed to add a “reactions” like feature on Codidact, which would allow marking answers as “accepted”, “outdated” or “dangerous”, providing more detailed feedback to users seeing the answer than simple votes. For example, a upvote could mean “this works for me” or “this sou...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284098 @#8049 I'll look into why you're getting a 404 but I asked, because we had to implement a Cloudflare-level brake on requests from Sweden (aka the verification step) due to a sudden, massive increase of requests from there, very likely to be automated and malicious. So I was just wondering if that may...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284098 Are you, by chance, in Sweden? (because that probably would explain why you see that message so often)
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #283823 Just to confirm your suspicion: yes it was me who made that change to the tag (I also added the excerpt). FYI I see some technical and non-technical issues with the suggestion (what if it is just a spelling error? couldn't this cause confusion too? what if the tag is used on a lot of posts?) and will...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #283801 Archiving this thread, because 1\. it is not strictly related to this question but to the linked one and the matter discussed here should -- if it needs to be -- discussed on that post, 2\. both sides have made their point clear and there isn't much purpose IMO to continue this discussion given...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #283785 You can propose new sites in the [Site Proposals](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/10) category if they haven't been suggested before. You can also support existing proposals by signing up for them (using the answer given for that) or by helping to refine its scope. There is already a chemistr...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #283785 Question closed about 3 years ago
Edit Post #283785 Question reopened about 3 years ago
Edit Post #283785 Question closed about 3 years ago
Comment Post #283611 Agreed. Building a fix, will be changed at the next deploy.
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #283610 There's also a little surprise feature included with this update; more details to be announced in the next days. :)
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #283610 Post edited:
Ah I forgot we have a link to the current user's vote summary :)
about 3 years ago
Edit Post #283610 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Question Introducing the Vote Summary
We have added a summary of votes received (i.e. votes on own posts) to user profiles. You can access it by going to the Vote Summary tab. The summary is available publicly: header tab with vote summary entry The votes are aggregated by post and day, you see how many up- and downvotes you have r...
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about 3 years ago