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Activity for manassehkatz
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? One of the problems is Proposals that get an initial posting, possibly a quick flurry of activity, and then absolutely nothing. One option is to make a rule along the lines of: No new answers or edits within 'x' (30? 60?) days other than technical (grammar, tags) Still has all 3 needs- tags ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Can I ask about QPixel here? We've set up a new place for exactly these types of questions: https://collab.codidact.org/ (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? 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 or professional experts but sometimes just by virtue of having hung out SomeplaceElse for years and g... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why can't I upload pictures from a link? This has been discussed previously. I have suggested this plus a whole bunch of other image related features. I haven't had the time to work on implementation and nobody else had jumped in to do this. We'll get this eventually. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Mod tools - Flags - Duplicate - make it a link I received a Mod notification for a Duplicate Flag. In such flags (and anything similar where a Post reference is included), the referenced possible duplicate target should be a link instead of plain text. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Improvements to "Recent Comments" Recent comments (e.g., https://meta.codidact.com/mod/comments ) could use some improvements. Five specific things that come to mind: 1 - A reference above each comment showing the post title. This would give immediate context. The title does not need to be link/clickable, and shouldn't be "huge", ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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"Remember last post edit in process" not clearing automatically Echo... I just posted a question https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280045 When I started to post my next question (not this one, another one that will be soon) by clicking "Ask Question" again, the "remember my last post edit in process" thing showed the previous question text (picture link and a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Missing Meta Q&A from Dashboard 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&A. I see Site Proposals and Blog but not Q&A! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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New Close reason needed I received a flag for https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279799 that it was a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279637 That is indeed a duplicate and I closed it. However, the text reason with Duplicate is: This question has been answered before. which is not strictly speakin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Inconsistent Answer Counts 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 answers. I counted. There are 18 answers. My best guess is Deleted answers. The numbers shoul... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why don't we just make communities for every launched stack? 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 will never be enough content (except spam, perhaps). Quality content requires people who really know... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we get an optional featured image for the home pages? Concept is good. A few suggestions for the details: Image should have a tag line showing where it is from. That could be the name of the post, author, timestamp. That tag line should link to the actual post. Image itself could link to the post or simply to the image itself to view full size. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site suggestion - Code Golf 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 is the Sandbox. The Sandbox is absolutely key, because a question really needs to be, as much as possi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team? > 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? I see two very different issues of: Productivity As noted by others, the volunteers ha... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why can users get negative reputation? 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 clipped at 0, then doing bad things don't count anymore after a while. That makes no sense. This is... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Unable to upload a picture to answers, questions, etc. OK. This appears to be a variant of the known image issues. Specifically, it is relying on extension to determine image type, rather than doing an analysis after upload. However, it appears that SomeOther sites do something very similar, so this is far from a uniquely Codidact problem. The prob... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why prefer Codidact to Stack Exchange? > 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 casual user of any system generally doesn't care about this type of stuff. The active, involved, users - a ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Allowing arbitrary image links causes security warnings Codidact is set up for image hosting. It doesn't cost much at the current level of usage. However, if a user puts in a link we don't currently prevent that (may or may not be advisable to allow 3rd-party image hosting, that is a separate discussion) and that combines with, in this case, the 3rd-party... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Sign In vs. Sign Up Sign In and Sign Up are two different functions, with different buttons & pages, and they should remain separate. However, there should be consistency in how they reference each other, as well as improved visibility. Specifically: Sign In has small text links at the bottom for Sign In and Sign... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Voting while not signed in (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. No change to the count, no visible error message. After several clicks, I realized that I might no... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Block adding answers and editing of question/answers of deleted questions. A deleted question should: Be viewable only by author, Moderators and appropriate high-TL users. Not allow new comments or editing of comments on question or answers. Not allow new answers. Not allow editing of question or answers. Currently, new answers are allowed and editing of questi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can we move questions? I have raised this discussion in the past, particularly in the context of "one database per community" vs. "one database per instance". We are currently in "one database per instance", where moving a question between communities ("migrate" in SE terminology) would really be only very slightly more co... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Show User's Vote on List of Posts Since Codidact shows + and - votes on the list of posts, would it be possible (practical...) to show if the currently logged in User has voted on each post? When displaying an individual post, there is a clear indicator (colored triangle). It could be shown in the list of posts by bold + color of eit... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Hide Deleted Comments In places where I can see deleted comments (admin/moderator, possibly also comments I wrote myself and deleted (not sure if that's the case or not)), they should be secondary to the active comments. Specifically, I found a post where there have been many comments, and several of the older ones have b... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Style for [closed] (but this post is not closed) While ```[closed]``` is clear and unambiguous, it really doesn't stand out in a list of posts. Can we have a colored background (like the reddish background for a deleted comment or answer when viewing a post, but a different color) for posts that have been marked [closed]? That would make it super-e... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Character count does not show on Comment edit. 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 character count. The count is apparently still taking place because the comment can't be saved if the co... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Self-Delete Reason If a post is Closed by others, I assume there is a requirement (similar to Some Other sties) for a Close Reason. However, if I delete a post myself (e.g., I just deleted an Answer to https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276772 ), all I do is click DELETE and OK and it is gone. I think it would b... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes? instead of - Absolutely not! Showing separate + and - votes is a good thing. Or as they say, that's not a bug, it's a feature. If you want to show the score (whether integer net score or Wilson # or whatever) in addition to the + and - values, that's fine with me. But the + and - values are the... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Languages 'supersite' Separating Languages As noted elsewhere, one possible setup for the site is to have a main Q&A for "everything" and as individual languages build up they can progress to: Category - named for the language, standard Q&A, all existing questions moved based on tags. Separate Community - named f... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Can we have an error if the to be uploaded image is too large? I have proposed a number of possible solutions. At the moment though, they are grand ideas awaiting both consensus on what to implement and then programmer(s) to actually implement them. Due to other demands on developer time (both mine & others, and both inside Codidact and in the real world), it ma... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How is Codidact financed? 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 attached, and everything will be handed over to the Codidact organization when properly set up. We als... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Sefaria Linker bug If I go to: https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276449#comment-1676 the Sefaria links work fine. However, if I click on "Show 3 more comments" below the Question, the Sefaria links all disappear. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: automatic linking to a specific category, by title I like this idea (obviously, clearly it is partly inspired by my post https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276421 ). A bit of confusion though about "category", "post", etc. A category is a group of posts (e.g,., Q&A or Meta or Recipes or Divrei Torah). I think as initially stated this would be lim... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: "Tour" for new users? In my opinion, the Tour on SE/SO left a lot to be desired. It provided an extremely brief overview of some features while leaving out a lot of important functional details. I am not sure if a Tour is planned for Codidact. I know that a lot of effort is being put into help pages, and in fact there ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Self-answered Q&A - posting Q and A at the same time That's perfectly fine, at least as I understand it. However, one thing we have been working on here is a "post-only" item with no actual answers, which can include "Canonical questions" or "FAQs" or other types of posts where instead trying to fit an item into "Q + A", instead it is structured as a s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Browser-Specific Image Problems There have been some "images don't display in all browsers" problems. This is a test of that. Each image is "Test Image" in magenta/pink letters on a white background. PNG test image png format JPG test image jpg format TIF test image TIF format BMP test image BMP format Tested ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Links go to writing.codidact.com instead of "self" The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct links on meta, outdoors and photo are all pointing to the pages on writing.codidact.com. They should always point to "self". (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Single Board Microcontroller/Computer Codidact Site (Arduinos, RPi, etc.) This does sound like an interesting idea. But it seems that the common theme may be much more of a "tiny computer systems that can be used to build stuff" than "open source" per se. And it also doesn't quite cover the same as Electronics StackEchange. Electronics StackExchange overlaps with this ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Requests to improve the contests When it comes to Q&A in general, I am very much against: > Disallow downvotes, upvotes are enough to determine winners, and downvotes can hurt people's feelings. as that turns the whole world into touchy-feely-everyone-is-wonderful, which, unfortunately, is not the case, and basically to me see... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes? 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 where SE, for whatever reasons, never did. Current plans, but subject to change, include blogs, canonical an... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
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A: Bootstrapping: who can speak for a community? SE moderators as automatic "pro-tem" moderators. Absolutely. While the specifics will be different, particularly the available tools, the principles of moderation will be largely the same here as on SE. High-rep Users When there are no (or not enough) SE moderators willing to be moderators... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |