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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.

Posts by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 a...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 wher...

posted 5y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 ca...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 w...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Can I ask about QPixel here?

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

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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 answe...

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

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Q&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 co...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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?...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 cli...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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&amp...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&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 th...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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 ad...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Character count does not show on Comment edit. [duplicate]

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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A 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://judais...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 oth...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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 th...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 e...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Undelivered mail returned to sender

I have added a whitelist entry based on the email address used by support to contact you.

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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