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Activity for manassehkatz
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| Edit | Post #290737 | Question closed | — | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
The issue isn't so much transfer time (it is a one-time thing if compression is done immediately after transfer) as it is storage space. Storage space is a *lot* cheaper than it used to be, but *some* limit is necessary for both economic and practical reasons.
An awful lot of people take pictures on... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290154 |
Client-side implementation has a lot of issues. What I think would work better is a server-side implementation. Something like a **much** larger limit - perhaps 20 MB. On upload, server code compresses on the fly down to the desired size (e.g., 2 MB) and only stores the compressed image. This is rela... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289632 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
How to resize images I received a comment on my answer to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289594 about the image size. It is a perfectly valid point. For comparison, in StackExchange it is possible to resize by adding an m or s to the filename. Do we have any similar capabilities here to resize images? I know I c... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289270 | Question closed | — | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
@#53890 Why would it give *anyone* the ability? Why can't it be limited (as are certain other things) to the original author + high privilege (moderator/staff/etc.)? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289260 |
I often find this problem with tag edits, as well as minor textual changes, Someplace Else. But I would definitely not want to discourage these types of changes and they can improve discoverability (tags) as well as style, spelling, grammar, etc. (text) So allowing the option seems like a good idea t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
Is *Misuse* a significant concern if the original author makes the edit? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
I think a formal method within the system would be helpful. That is, to me, a failing Somewhere Else - there is really no easy way to communicate with someone because email addresses are not (unless specifically listed in user profiles) public. Sometimes what I have done is: Find a message (Q, A, com... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
Showing the number in mouseover is quite useful as the displayed number is rounded - e.g., 1.1k for 1063. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288957 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proposal: Human-readable profile URLs In addition to the uniqueness issue, there is also the compatibility issue. Usernames can include characters that are invalid in URLs. Those characters would need to be replaced with hexadecimal codes or arbitrary replacements, and either solution would result in a different URL and affect readabilit... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288951 |
An instance is a collection of communities run on one server (or set of servers) with one database and one group of administrators (though there may be different moderators for each community). While this *could* be per-community, I think it makes sense to be per-instance, as it is common to use the ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288951 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proposal: remove Twitter from profiles I am not a big social media user. I have a LinkedIn account (2 actually, because I have no reason to pay for it so that I can merge accounts) and hardly use it. I have a Discord account and don't even know my user tag since I almost exclusively use it for Codidact. I tried Twitter once, so I probably... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288889 |
Assuming a typical database structure - i.e., one master record for the comment threads with an ID that is a foreign key in the comments themselves - it should be possible to do this with either one query based on a join or a simple loop in the programming language of your choice. I don't know Ruby, ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288828 |
Which reminds me of my problems with Microsoft Word. I need to find out how to turn that off. One of the reasons it is a problem with Word is if you convert to a PDF it stays an mdash and then if you copy/paste to put it in plain text somewhere (I do this routinely) now it is a non-ASCII character. A... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288644 | Question closed | — | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288530 |
"several people signing in at different times". Depends. If they are using, for example, separate Windows User accounts then they will normally have their own browser profiles (cookies, bookmarks, settings, etc.) and browser-based storage would work fine. If you mean "all one local computer user but... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288530 |
This gets to a fundamental question of cacheing settings in the browser (advantage: no database structure (one-time pain to set up) or storage (practically speaking, 0 cost in money but can have an effect in time to load)) vs. database (advantage: moves automatically to any device you have logged in ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287218 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287237 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Undelivered mail returned to sender I have added a whitelist entry based on the email address used by support to contact you. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286224 |
I can't speak for others. My downvote is because a lot of this answer appears to be based on the assumption that OP's problem on SO was based on poorly written questions. But we really don't know that. It could be you are correct, it could also be that OP wrote reasonable questions but had issues due... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285224 |
Move/clone functionality is not that hard to do. I believe customizing of voting behavior per category is already a functional thing in some of our communities, so also not a big deal. However, I think a true sandbox (i.e., full separate category rather than just "close = limit stuff until reopened")... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285219 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we remove closed questions from the question list? I believe Somewhere Else only high-rep. users can see Closed Questions (except their own). I think that is a pointlessly elitist attitude, for lack of a better term. On the other hand, I realize that generally speaking, Closed Questions are just needless clutter to most users, most of the time. I ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285013 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Skip "direct link" message above the answer if there is only one answer 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 score. You can return to the normal view. If there is currently only one answer, this adds no use... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284487 |
If people aren't answering because they are "scared of downvote" then, to be blunt, they need to **grow up**. If you think you have a good answer, post it! If it gets downvoted you can leave it as is (if you are convinced you are right and the downvoters are wrong), change it (to satisfy any concerns... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284179 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: A friendly error when trying to upload a profile picture more than 2 MB This is an extremely common problem. The true geeks among us know how to resize and compress an image before uploading. The rest of the world just knows (barely) how to upload an original image from their phone, which can easily be more than 2 Meg., sometimes much bigger than that. I discussed thi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284005 |
I don't think the real question is about "automation". This is a classic question, examined in many places, about how birth rates change in societies as they become more prosperous. There are certainly many examples since the industrial revolution, and likely some in prior societies as well. But in a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282531 |
Post edited: Removed "Edit Title" as it is now in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282459 |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282577 |
1 - Who - Whoever started the Thread, plus Moderators. Possibly "Curate". But not "anyone in the Thread" - that could lead to sabotage - add a comment to a thread and then change the title.
2 - Time limits? No. As long as there is an audit trail, allow changes! To comment text *and* to titles. That ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282531 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Comment Changes 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 able to read the original post as I am writing the comment and sometimes cut/paste from the post into th... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
Agreed: Allow "view all on main page", allow "reply" from main page, initial button "first 5" and keep the "full comment thread page" option - I can see that being very useful on small devices in particular. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
If I want to write a comment and I see threads, I'll open them up - that's easy and stays on the same page. If I see a thread addressing exactly the issue I am interested in, I want to be able to Reply easily. It isn't obvious at all. If the thread has 3 comments, I see "3 of 3" and "View entire thre... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282074 | Question closed | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280879 |
Same problem reported with Hebrew https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282074 (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282005 |
This feature should actually be easy to implement as long as we stay in a "one database" design (my preference but agreed quite a while ago that long-term we will have a database-per-community structure). (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281312 |
@Istiak OK. I was wondering about that. No problem. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280917 | Question closed | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280898 | Question closed | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281617 |
Agreed! I got those flags as moderator and couldn't figure out what they were referring to. Ideally a Duplicate Flag should require an actual target. But short of that (which would be complicated because the additional information for each type of flag would be different), a text field to fill in det... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281468 |
+1 for quoting part of the question about quoting part of the question... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
One more digression: I enjoy when I find things such as "Easter Egg candy" that is actually Kosher (typically because everything in a particular factory is under Kosher supervision). (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
of **Easter Egg** as being any more "religious" than "fat Santa in a red suit with a sleigh and reindeer handing out gifts" - which is an image popularized by Coca Cola (among others) and commercialized, parodied, used as the basis of songs (many written by Jews...), etc. So for Easter Egg to have be... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |