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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.

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Q&A Why prefer Codidact to Stack Exchange?

As I explained in this post and some community staff confirmed, Codidact is almost a miniature of SE. In fact, I see no radical difference between them. Codidact is being used since not long, tha...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Allow licence change when there's only one contributor

I wrote a post without realizing I was using the default licence CC BY-SA instead of the licence I wanted to use (CC0). I wanted to amend my mistake; I wasn't able to. Other similar (but closed sou...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 30d ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Questionable button label when editing comment.

Posting new comment is by selecting the function, writing the comment, hitting 'Post'. Editing existing comment is by selecting the function, making the amends, then hitting 'Post'. Having the sa...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A General discussion on making votes public

Make vote secrecy a per-community choice, because some communities might prefer voting transparency over voting privacy. Side-question. Why voting is secret in other Q&A platforms? Origins in ...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A Suggested edits don't show meaningful diff

I've seen the board assessing this problem as a high priority issue. Somewhere it's marked as medium priority, but that's not entirely true (in case someone has read). I could guess that this would...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Would like written chat.

Strongly disagree! Stack Exchange reinvented the wheel with is chat - IRC existed. Then Discord again reinvented that wheel. We are using this, come join us! Now here is no place to reinvent the wh...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Cancelling a comment.

Now there is a comment cancellation pull request. The software is, for part of the stuff you could want, very easy to handle. I would totally recommend everyone suggesting their own changes.

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Post on Stack Exchange and Codidact

Is there any problem on me posting on Codidact an exact copy of the (new) questions I post in Stack Exchange? When posting in Codidact you implicitly agree to the terms of service, code of conduc...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A These URLs return a broken page

Can forge https://meta.codidact.com/questions/ and https://software.codidact.com/questions/. There are two problems with that: It won't list anything until clicking any of the Activity | Age | S...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Unique favicons for each site

Multiple favicon is an awesome idea for people participating in multiple sites. However it has a very important disadvantage of diluting the platform image (the book) when being reached by newcomer...

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Q&A Should we allow capitalized tags?

Yes! Tags presentation should not obey to any technical constraint. Store tags any way you like, present them in English

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A A clickable X that doesn't work

When accessing Meta - http://meta.codidact.com - not signed in, there's a message. It reads: Welcome to Codidact Meta! Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Character tracker doesn't react on insertion via ContextMenu

A working fix in tracks, here. The code proposed is maybe hacky or outdated, but works [for me].

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Q&A Why can users get negative reputation?

My guess: Because they used a signed integer type for rep, therefore it's not capped at 0. (And hypothesizing that because of lazyness and simplicity rep substraction performs just a substraction i...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A General discussion on making votes public

Countering some Moshi's claims. False accusations of revenge voting. (whether knowingly or not) That is, stuff like "I know @downvoter doesn't like me, that must be why they downvoted." and "I dow...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Should tags be written in American or in British English?

Neither. Both are wrong for they are incomplete. Use any at the data layer, but if possible, both at the same time - every meaningful data is stored; and use something like 🇦🇹 blah / 🇩🇪 bleh at the...

posted 4y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A responsiveness 

Load codidact: Open menu: Grow window, menu opener disappears, but menu persists:

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A auto re licensing

If this had a feature where one could set triggers for stuff, I'd use it to set up a trigger that re licenses all and each of my CC BY NC SA stuff to CC BY SA1 after each hits 50th year age. The go...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Should we display the number of views?

soft no1 Codidact is already wasting a lot of storage space in the edits history2 and who knows what else, let's please not request unnecessary space waster features until the not-for-profit is al...

posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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