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Posts by luap42‭

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Q&A Announcing a new user tour

Oh... yet another announcement from me :) So, we built a new user tour, which explains how Codidact works. Every new user will get an inbox-notification inviting them to take the tour (only once, n...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 r...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 g...

posted 1y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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. ...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 an...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&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.

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What is the difference between the subdomain forum.codidact and the rest of the communities?

It's something completely different. This project started in a Discord server, which was originally used for all kind of discussions regarding organisational matters and with regards to ideas, how...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Announcing featured links

You might have noticed, that the Hot Posts sidebar widget changed. This is, because we added some new features surrounding it. Most noteably, moderators can now feature links to that bulletin. This...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A How can an SE refugee help fix encoding problems?

tl,dr: You need'nt worry about this yet. When we started this project, it was decided, that we wouldn't want a single "reputation" number, but rather finer more specific numbers, such as for exampl...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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 ...

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

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Q&A Where is the site switcher on mobile?

You asked for it. The site switcher component is now also visible on mobile. Happy switching.

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Need a better way of finding unanswered questions

Update: This has been completed and looks like this: I'd suggest the following solution: If a question has answers (answered), we apply the classes h-bg-green-700 h-p-h-1 h-c-white to .answe...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 almos...

posted 1y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Community Ad Templates now available

You have a website or a blog where you want to advertise for your favorite Codidact community? Or you got permission to advertise on someone else's website? Great. Please spread the word and invite...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 t...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 check_y...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A List comments on the user profile page.

This has been completed now. All undeleted comments are shown in the shiny new "Activity" tab on user profiles. For example, your comment activity looks like this: Furthermore, there is a more com...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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 s...

6 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A A proposal for keyboard shortcuts

You are lucky! This has been completed. It's now in core, so no need for a user script anymore. There are also some additions to the user script version, namely, that post, user and tag lists are n...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What is an easy way to determine my Trust Level?

While trust levels are going to replace reputation eventually, they are still being designed. So currently, we use a reputation system, which was included in the base software (QPixel by ArtOfCode)...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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.

posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Allow block quotes in comments

When I first read that post, I thought "no way" and added a downvote quite quickly. But as I'm thinking more about it, the whole idea seems more useful to me and I started becoming inventive. I'm s...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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