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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by luap42‭

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Q&A What should I know when coming here from Stack Exchange?

Welcome to Codidact! This is mostly a Q&A community, as you likely know from Stack Exchange already. However, I only said "mostly", because there are some differences you should know: Codidac...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous"

Currently, it is possible to upvote and downvote answers. That's likely enough in most situations, but there are some cases where you might want to have more than one way to react to a post. For ex...

9 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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a year ago, I proposed to add a “reactions” like feature on Codidact, which would allow marking answers as “accepted”, “outdated” or “dangerous”, providing more detailed feedback to user...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 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: The votes are aggrega...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What html tags can we use in posts?

For obvious reasons, we do not allow you to use any tag or attribute you want. All tags, that aren't on a special inclusion list are stripped from the input. There are two lists, one for posts and...

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

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel [duplicate]

Since Codidact was founded, we have had one rule leading our path every step of the way. It's the rule that community comes first. That the Codidact "staff" shouldn’t overrule the community, but co...

9 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What does "Codidact" mean?

tl;dr: Codidact is contracted from "co" (together; Latin) and "didact" (to learn; Greek) There has been a forum discussion for that question, too, I'm summarizing the important aspects from ther...

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

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Q&A How much reputation is enough reputation?

Looking at the site settings, it appears, that there are these privileges currently: 250 reputation grant you the privilege to close and reopen questions. 500 reputation will allow you to edit po...

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

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What should happen with inactive communities?

The level of activity of the communities vary. Some are more active than others, which isn't exactly a problem. However, I'm a bit worried when a community becomes significantly less active than ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Andreas requires cookies‭

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Q&A Bug Reports category

I'd disagree here, because I think this is not, how categories should be used. First of all, there shouldn't be too many categories, because the UI becomes confusing, possibly problematic on mobile...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What gets on Hot Posts?

The code for the hot post selection can be found in the app/controllers/application_controller.rb file (search for hot_questions). Eligible for Hot Posts are all Questions or Articles that have...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 w...

posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&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 st...

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

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Q&A What are the steps between community proposal and the actual spawn of that community?

This answer can be considered semi-official. It's a mix of "what we currently appear to be doing" and "how I'd want it do be". There is a site suggestion category here on Meta, where everyone wit...

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

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Q&A Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

About a month ago I shared our first draft for a Review Panel. Read through that post to find the motivation for this idea: It should be clear that such a process shouldn't involve "us" (the Codid...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A Why is there a voting limit?

We had (and unfortunately still have) a nasty troll, that attempts to downvote all the questions and creates sock accounts for that to escape suspensions. To stop them, we had to employ some limita...

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

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Q&A 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 pass...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A feature-request

Thanks for your feature requests. I'm going to respond to all your points one by one: Watching tags. We already support having questions highlighted based on a set of favorite tags. You can se...

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

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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 3y ago by luap42‭

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