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Activity for luap42
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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... (more) |
— | 4 days ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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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... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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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 ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Answers order is changed when we access a specific answer by its direct link This is by design. Sometimes, for example for the Code Golf scoreboard, we need to have a direct link to the answers. Since on questions with many answers the answers are paginated and the order is calculated "on the fly", it's not possible to say beforehand, on which page an answer would be. Ther... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: o@ßX shows up as [email protected]ßX This looks like an issue with Cloudflare, which (wrongly) assumes that what you entered is an email. They apparently have an anti-spam-measure, that requires JavaScript to uncover email addresses. Since the JS doesn't run when the preview is created, the message is shown. An easy fix would be to t... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: feature-request Thanks for your feature requests. I'm going to respond to all your points one by one: 1. Watching tags. We already support having questions highlighted based on a set of favorite tags. You can set those tags in your preferences. If this is not what you're looking for, please describe your idea mor... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: What will happen to comments when account is removed? The problem is, that nothing happens with comments. Literally nothing. This means, that the comment table contains references to a non-existent user, which causes 500 server errors. This is bad and should be fixed, I just added it to our list. To fix these errors, I logged into the developer co... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: User avatar image is stretched (image aspect ratio not maintained) in the top bar Pushed a fix right now, should be coming with the next deploy: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/commit/fa009b5663412f7346346c532bb5bfe5d6929b4d Update: Changes have been pushed out. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A note on April 1st 2021 Unfortunately, we didn't have the time to build an April fools easter egg this year. We'll build one next year, for sure! Therefore, for your own safety: - DO NOT try to enter any secret code on April 1st. - DO NOT play the game ('cause there is none). - DO NOT post your high scores in this t... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: `dir=rtl` and inline HTML CSS styling aren't working (quite urgent) From what I can see, supporting the `[dir]` attribute can be safely done. However, we cannot support the `[style]` attribute for security reasons. CSS allows you to do a lot of things, many of those being a possible security or exploit risk. Even simple things like background images could be used... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: responsiveness I don't think it's feasible to support browser-width changes in the header dropout component. That's mostly for two reasons: 1. The same code is used for multiple elements, including the menu, the search bar and the inbox. Because - for example - the latter two are also enabled on desktop scree... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Mail members free clothing that advertises Codidact.com? I'm sorry, but to my best knowledge, the Codidact core team has no millionaires. We don't even have a common "Codidact bank account", because a certain pandemic has made it much harder to open one than we thought. We already have a way to have Codidact t-shirts produced and we might even do ano... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Streamline the top? Move Meta to the top row? I'm sorry, but I have to decline this one. Categories are a core feature of Codidact and an important implementation of our central and long-standing policy that communities should be the ones who decide the stuff, including how their content is structured. We can talk about how to design the h... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Remember me function not working when 2FA is enabled When I have 2FA (two-factor authentification) activated, I'm kicked out of my session way more often than if I haven't. That's annoying, because I need to go to my password manager and find my password. Even worse, when I'm not at my PC, but at my mobile. Reproduce? 1. Activate 2FA (I tried onl... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Where can I find the discussions over the general approach of Codidact? I would like to start with noting, that comments aren't in their "final form" yet, so it's quite likely we'll see some kind of comment voting/approval marking in the future. Besides that, all the things you mentioned are intentional. All recent discussions are here in Meta. If you want to go down ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Where is the site switcher on mobile? You asked for it. The site switcher component is now also visible on mobile. Happy switching. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What will become of reputation? Back in the real old days, we had a real long discussion about reputation and privileges (exhibit A, B, C and likely many other discussions in other threads). What emerged from those discussions was mainly that: People want something to feel recognized for their contributions. People want to... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: 404 Not Found for Meta Q&A questions when signed out This has been fixed. The recent refactoring of the post routes caused the check, whether you could see the posts in a category, to be too aggressive. (And, as a side note: well played, the 404 image tricked me into thinking, this page were a 404 too, at first sight :D) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Category button no longer exists This is not a bug, but rather the link was removed intentionally. While making some changes to the header, I decided that the link wasn't really useful for anything, except for one specific use case, because everything had already been covered: category links are on every page, category descriptio... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Add vertical scrollbar to the community dropdown This has been completed and the changes have been deployed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Heads up: small design changes, a better user card and some long-expected features Update: The reputation number in the header has been added back again for the time being, until we have found a suitable solution. This is just a quick heads up, that you are, indeed, not crazy and that the design of the header really changed. We deployed a few nice and (at least some of th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Make swapping between sites easier This has been completed. There's now a drop down in the header with all sites, which you can use to switch between them easily. Expect a full announcements of the new features soon. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community dropdown and profile information This has been partially completed. There's now a drop down with all sites, which you can use to switch between them easily. Expect a full announcements of the new features soon. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we get a queue for pending suggested edits? This has been completed. There's now a "Suggested Edits" link in the header bar of[]() every category, where you can see all pending and decided edits: (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What is the "tools" button for? Is it meant to do anything? Thanks for the report. We're already aware of the bug and I've already written a fix; it'll be deployed soon. What happened? We have two functions to check for your abilities around a post `checkyourprivilege` and `checkyourpostprivilege`. The latter will also allow you to do something, if you are... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Move posts between different categories through edits? That should already be possible for every user with the Curate ability. There's a little "Tools" link below the post, which can be clicked and where "Change category" should be an option. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What does "post positive reception" mean in the context of abilities? The post score threshold for (some) Abilities is based on the on the score your post has. If your post score is larger than 0.5, the post counts as good post. If your post score is smaller than 0.5, the post counts as bad post (for the context of the Ability post score threshold). Every othe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Discrepancy between abilities and privilege page This is by design, as those pages serve different purposes: the overview page (/abilities) serves the purpose to give you quick summary, which Abilities exist and what a user may or may not do. For this, it doesn't matter how you got that Ability, so we are simplifying it. the detail page (/a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Abilities update is here! Update: It looks like we brought all changes back. Unfortunately, they will be under a different ID/URL now. If there's still something missing, please comment below. Hey everyone, We finally rolled out Abilities! 🥳 However, because it took much longer than expected (due to some technical d... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A Site for Privacy and Data Protection Enthusiasts Privacy is important. Especially in the time of the Internet. Hence there are software solutions to improve your personal privacy (most commonly known: TOR). And there are laws, which mandate a certain level of privacy (most commonly known, likely: GDPR). However, in my real life experience, fe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What gets on Hot Posts? The code for the hot post selection can be found in the app/controllers/applicationcontroller.rb file (search for hotquestions). Eligible for Hot Posts are all Questions or Articles that - have any activity in the last seven days, - are in an eligible category (can be changed per-category) and... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How to financially support the Codidact project? It's great to hear that you are interested in helping us funding our project. That's like really excitingly awesome. Unfortunately, we don't want to accept donations until we have a proper legal structure, that can be held accountable. We don't want you to have to trust some of our team members th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Codidact turns one; let's party (email for prizes sent) Update (2020-12-29): I've sent emails to everyone who is eligible to get a t-shirt or stickers. I'm sorry that it took a while, but you know, life happens. It's been an interesting year so far and we're all volunteers. If you are eligible but haven't gotten the email, please check your spam folder an... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Mod-warning a user results in suspension, even when "No" is selected for suspension This has been completed. The system will now make sure to do what you ask it to do not what it assumes to be correct. Also, we added a tool to lift suspensions early, in case the suspension was errorneous. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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The technical design behind Abilities So... as promised, here's a post on how Abilites are designed. If you haven't already, read the official announcement for them, before continuing to read this post to get a high-level understanding of what Abilities are and how they are supposed to work from a user perspective. You might also want to... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How do I turn off keyboard shortcuts? This has been completed and will hopefully be deployed soon. Starting from then, you'll find a per-browser setting in your profile that will need to be explicitly enabled in order to be able to use the keyboard tools. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Tag bar over keyboard shortcuts menu This has been completed and is pending deploy. We set the z-index to an incredibly high Mersenne-prime, so this should no longer be an issue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Only send one notification per comment This has been completed. The changes will hopefully be deployed soon. Now, the author of the parent post will no longer be pinged if mentioned. However, it might be possible, that this means that the second mentioned user won't get a notification, too, so only ping the author when neccessary (beca... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team? tl,dr: No. I'm sorry, but this just isn't possible. First of all, we all are people with a real life. We all have full-time responsibilities in real life. These responsibilities are unquestionable more important than running a virtual community. For example, I'll have a major change in my ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Mathematics isn't listed in the site footer or on codidact.com This has been fixed. Math had already been added to our list and I have just run a deploy, which should add it to the footer and codidact.com (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Coming soon: new abilities system and changes to reputation One of our longstanding design goals is to grant privileges based on people's activity and not just based on a reputation number. We think it's better if you gain abilities based on your track record in related areas, and not because one of your answers hit the Reddit jackpot. We're finally almost ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What are the close reasons on Codidact? CoC violations and spam shouldn't be closed, but deleted IMO. But that aside, the current close system will be overhauled in the future, when the devs have come around to it. In the mean time, all close reasons are editable per-site and any community can change them if wanted (mods should be able ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: To be constructive, or not to be constructive, that is the question. (from now deleted comments, with some changes, on request from the asker) In addition to what Monica said, it may be more clear to say, that the CoC isn't intended to be a full "penal code", which names all possible "crimes" and threatens penalties, but more something like a "social contract", acc... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Images are stretched, not scaled, on narrow browsers Oh yeah right, that bug, since Art just put a status-completed tag on it, I could also take my time and reply with what the issue is, because it's quite interesting (and this is also a good mental note for next time a similiar issue appears). It turns out, that mobile iOS browsers don't like image... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |