Welcome to Codidact Meta!
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.
Activity for manassehkatz
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 months 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281468 |
+1 for quoting part of the question about quoting part of the question... (more) |
— | about 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 |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
**There is nothing wrong with using "kosher"** to refer to things (both religious and secular) other than "status of food or other objects in Jewish religious law". Really. As far as "Easter Egg", I have always understood the term to refer to finding some special hidden "treat" - originating from the... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281238 |
@Interested Actually, one does not need to be Jewish to join the Codidact Judaism community, just interested in Judaism. Once certainly doesn't have to be an "expert" to join any of the Codidact communities - the idea is to build places where people can learn from each other, which includes all level... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281012 |
Aside from personally disagreeing with the premise, this seems to be a rather limited concept. Then again, I always show up late to the Procastinator's Club, and I really don't care much about the Apathy Site... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280826 |
That arrow is incredibly useful. It takes up only a tiny drop of space (since it has not text, just an icon) and avoids having to scroll down to navigate to other communities. Is it *superfluous* - Yes. But that is (for better or worse) the nature of modern user interfaces - e.g., to print in a typic... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280788 |
@Zerotime Each of those was essentially a one-liner, but where the one line was constructive. This one started off with "*The reason Codidact was necessary...*" - which is something quite different. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280788 |
I am closing as the current post (after inappropriate content was removed) has no useful information - e.g., scope, type of questions, special features needed, etc. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280565 |
At the moment this is probably a Dev. question for @ArtOfCode If this information is already tracked then displaying is easy. But I suspect it may not be, and tracking properly may be a significant DB load. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280481 |
If you are looking at posts in the usual newest to oldest sequence, I think it is pretty easy to follow the last activity. Even if you have to jump around a bit, you just have to read every 'n'th to get a sense of where things get to "old", for any definition of "old". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280487 |
To me, the biggest difference is between "0" and "1 or more", and that is quite clear due to background color. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280459 |
Is there really enough difference - not just different questions but different *people* involved? Alternatively, if questions are tagged appropriately, a split could be made later. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280405 |
I can see pros & cons for every one of these issues. One thing to keep in mind is that unlike SE, we are open to change here: Newer (so less inertia to overcome to make changes), not driven by corporate interests (so no need to leave room for advertising, etc.), and not driven by "one particular big ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280386 |
and related items (which is what drove a lot of people away from Some Other places) as well as enhanced features like Blogs/Articles and other different post types, faster turnaround of new desirable features, community-specific customization, etc. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280386 |
Once we have sufficient volume (enough askers to ask enough questions that they have a good chance of already seeing relevant Q&A so that they even think to look here, and so that there are enough new questions to keep the answerers busy; enough answerers to be able to give quality answers to new que... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279299 |
Can you provide some rough boundaries/limits for the site? Are historical topics included? (e.g., democracy in ancient Greece, monarchies in the middle ages, etc.) How/where to draw the line on controversial issues? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280243 |
Added to Github: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/402 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280243 |
@ArtOfCode or someone else will have to give a definitive answer, but I think Deleted Posts in general are not visible except to (a) high-level users (Moderators of course, not sure what other specific levels) and (b) your own posts. If I am correct, the 404 is correct, **however** the list should no... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279862 |
testing to see this (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280229 |
I think both interest and expertise tend to be very specific to particular languages. There is some overlap - e.g., someone might well be seriously interested and/or expert in both ancient Latin & Greek, or perhaps more modern related languages such as Spanish & Portuguese, but combining "everything"... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280116 |
Can you include an example of one of the 404 links? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279801 |
An example of "articles" (in the sense of "Posts that have main (like question) item but no responses (like answers)" where Duplicate could apply is the Code Golf Sandbox.
(more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279801 |
**Actual** close duplicate target should be: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277447 as the referenced target was closed as a duplicate of that one! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279802 |
"addressed" works. "answered" has a very specific meaning in a question & **answer** site!
(more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279468 |
No repro. Only problem was that to post on a Browserstack Windows 10 Edge instance, I had to save an image "locally" which initially saved without an extension (I know why, and that is a separate issue, so don't worry about that right now) triggering the allowable extension message. Saved again with ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279464 |
I go to meta.codidact.com/dashboard and that gives me a list of all sites/categories, plus it gives a handy * next to each one that has had new posts since I last read that site/category. I right-click on each of those to open a new tab to see the new stuff. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |