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Activity for manassehkatz
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #279371 |
@Lundin I find Firefox complains about *closing a window with multiple tabs*, but it does **not** (at least for me) complain about closing individual tabs, unless an application tells it do so. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279390 |
Science Fiction & Fantasy have a lot in common and in some ways are indeed different from other genres. But they do overlap with many other types of **fiction** to varying degrees. I suggest not **literature** but **fiction**. There are a lot of issue for fiction (whether Science Fiction & Fantasy or... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279371 |
This isn't "configure the web browser". Probably *could* be done strictly in the browser by an extension **which would be supremely annoying**. Normally it is done by a drop of Javascript as part of the page. Trivial to add. Useful to the 50% of users who it helps. Annoying to the 50% of users who ca... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279180 |
I have **zero knowledge** of the financial/corporate structure of Discourse. I just used them as an example because we (Codidact) used them a bit in the initial planning stages. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279180 |
This sounds more like a collaborative *effort* than typical Q&A. I don't think this fits the type of topic material envisioned (in general) for Codidact. On the other hand, the Codidact *software* might be useful to you. The software is open source and available on Github. To be honest, I suspect tha... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279068 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #279001 |
On SomeOther site, this is part of Travel. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278919 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #278775 |
a) IIRC (but not searching right now) I think that was more like "general programming site" -> "move to the right language-specific site" or something of that sort, not totally generic; b) I may have changed my mind. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278775 |
This would become Quora. No thank you. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278743 |
*the generic "useful, shows some effort..." clearly does not fit to every community.* Especially Code Golf, where it is more like true "voting", but also Meta and some others. In some cases a +1 is almost a "like". (Except that I don't like "like", nor do I like using the word like too much :-) ) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278722 |
For better or worse, SomeOther sites have similar limitations on which markdown features are supported in comments. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
If I want to write recreational software for a computer, I **code games**. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278665 |
[Obligatory YouTube reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8NTiOt-oP0) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
"Code Games" make me think "Computer games", which is something quite different. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278605 |
@Canina Copy is, IMHO, far preferable to Move here. Aside from the "don't want to move the comments to a live Challenge" + "don't want to lose the Comments if they are important" conundrum, there is an advantage to having past *proposed* challenges (both those that were made live and those that weren... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
Even though Code Golf is itself limiting (as noted elsewhere, there are Code Bowling, King of the Hill and other types of challenges), those two words *immediately* give the sense that (a) it is about writing code and (b) it is about fun & games. "Coding Challenges" by itself to me sounds more like "... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278639 |
The description on Codidact tends to be longer and can include the site name. Also, while "challenges" has been used in the past, I see it more as "competition" - i.e., a "challenge" is "make this work", a "competition" is "see who can make it work best".
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278609 |
Interested as enthusiast. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278605 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #278552 |
This is a 2-part issue: 1 - Is this information recorded? 2 - Do we want to display it? Recording this is a significant hit to the database - an update for every single view. It gets a bit more complicated if we want to track unique (i.e., per user) views. If this is already being tracked then displa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278394 |
I have the PHP fluency, just don't have the time to do this. But I do think it is a very good idea. In particular it could help for people who want to move from *different* sites - e.g., there are several different sites that might match to Software Development. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
It shouldn't complicate things too much. Only the original author would have that option (revert from Community) and easy enough to check if there have been any later edits. Waiting to change ownership until after there is a non-author edit is more complicated and then doesn't show the "Community own... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278387 |
To me the issues isn't so much "dupe targets" as making those particular posts more obvious/accessible. The typical user doesn't do a good job of searching for dupes prior to asking a question. But if they saw an obvious "article" about related topics, then hopefully they would read that before askin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278388 |
*The author shouldn't be able to reverse this setting later, so there should be a suitable warning in the UI.* With the exception that they should be able to reverse the setting **if and only if nobody else has edited.** For example, OP posts, decides it would be a good "Community Wiki" style article... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
because nobody can find it - I've had trouble finding it myself when I have wanted to refer others to it. "Papers", "Articles", "Blog", "Wiki" - whatever you call it, the result is the same if it ends up with a multi-author well-written and easy-to-find reference work related to many typical question... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
I have been very much in favor of such a thing from the beginning. "Harper Reinstate Monica" and I tried to make a similar thing on DIY SE a while back - essentially a How To guide that would cover a **ton** of routine, but important, questions, so that people could be referred to it and then either... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278304 |
*"If you want to have a successful project, you need to consider it as your first priority."* This is why I downvoted this answer. This statement seems to say "no person in the world can ever work on two different projects and be successful in both of them." That is patently false. Whether or not the... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278279 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Edit | Post #278206 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Comment | Post #278133 |
for people who upload with no extension or wrong extension. While I originally thought that was OP's problem, later comments seem to indicate that is not the case (e.g., "capture.jpg" should work). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278133 |
I'm a bit confused @ArtOfCode so please confirm or correct: It sounds like you are saying that *first* extension is checked and *second* internal file format is verified. The end result would be: If a file has no extension (or a non-image extension) then it will be rejected by the first test, and if ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278132 |
That is very strange with an actual .jpg extension. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278132 |
Operating system? Firefox version? Actual filename (including extension)? Filesize? "I'm 100% sure that I'm updating the right file type" doesn't say what the file type is. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278133 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Edit | Post #278013 | Initial revision | — | 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 |
| Edit | Post #277995 |
Post edited: effects/affects, fact/facts |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277959 |
*that the receiver may feel indebted to the giver* Interesting. I could see that if **votes** were identified, since those cause rep-or-equivalent (I think it will be a while before, in a sense, rep truly disappears, even if it doesn't directly grant privileges). But reactions would be, I think, spec... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277841 |
But IMNSHO, the JSON file should be an output of the system, which in turn should draw it from the database. Something like codidact.com/communitylist would read the database and spit out JSON. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277841 |
In my ideal setup (which I don't always get to do), with the exception of graphics, there is a grand total of **one file** that ever changes - containing DB credentials, S3 credentials, key configuration details. Everything else is in the database. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277841 |
I'm very much a database guy. If this is in the database, then when you add a new community, *everything* is in the database except for discrete community-specific files (e.g., logos). This way no *files* need to be updated for a new community - they either exist for specific community or exist (unch... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277571 |
No. They fake it. Either for a small *fixed size* array by using a bunch of fields, or for a large variable size array by using another table. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277571 |
*Typical* databases don't have records like that - i.e., some fixed fields plus a variable number of additional fields (in this case, the PostIds could go into the *thousands* very quickly). What they instead have is two types of master records (User and Post) and a ManyToMany Table connecting them (... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |