manassehkatz‭

Currently, the expenses of Codidact (primarily web hosting) are paid for directly by volunteer contributors or their employers. No corporate sponsored hosting has any advertising or other strings a...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

We've set up a new place for exactly these types of questions: https://collab.codidact.org/

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

One of the key differences is that by being community-driven, Codidact will be able to expand the system in different ways from SE. This includes the ability to host different types of content wher...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

As @Lundin stated in comments: Because they have 100 or so of them and we don't want to create 100 ghost towns? A community needs people and quality content. Without enough people, there w...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

On Code Golf: https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/49 "Hello, World!" is listed as including 20 answers. On the actual page: https://codegolf.codidact.com/questions/279147 it says 18 answe...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

please note that many people, who are interested in contributing to a Q&A community, do not care meta subjects like "Code of Conduct", "Copyright Licenses", firing some community staff The ca...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

The Codidact community team have accepted to be the staff and run the community. So, in my opinion, if Codidact is an aspiring platform, one may expect that they work as paid staff do. Am I right?...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

Chicken, meet egg. In many cases, the askers are much less expert than the answerers. The experts are the ones creating this site - not exclusively, but in many cases, and not necessarily academic...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

If I jump to an answer directly from a notification, I get a box above the answer: You are accessing this answer with a direct link, so it's being shown above all other answers regardless of its...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

As noted by @OlinLathrop in a comment: The real question is why some sites artificially cap rep at 1 or 0. Some people can make a net negative contribution. Rep should reflect that. If it were cli...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

I have very limited experience in Code Golf. I have followed SE Code Golf for quite a while but rarely participated due to my limited skills. That being said, one clear limitation in SE Code Golf i...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

Posting a Meta Post about...not seeing Meta Posts! I went to my usual start-of-the-day spot: meta.codidact.com/dashboard All categories for all communities showed up as normal, except Meta: Q&amp...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

When adding a new comment, there is a helpful character count (x/500). If you exceed the count, it is clear that is why the comment can't be saved. When editing an existing comment, there is no ch...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 1y ago by deleted user

(Persistent irrelevant comment: I jumped down to the title field and entered that first and then went back up here to enter the actual question.) I tried to vote on an answer and nothing happened. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

Popup vs. Inline The box that pops up when starting a new Comment Thread is in the middle of the page and it is not movable. When writing a comment, unless it is very short, I often want to be...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭