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Comment Post #290293 A decorative image is an image that contains no information that is not already present in the text. Examples include images included for aesthetic purposes, or cases like a picture of a quote (such as from a manuscript) where the text is already present in the answer. The Web Accessibility Initiativ...
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2 days ago
Edit Post #290293 Initial revision 2 days ago
Question Add an explicit Markdown syntax for decorative images
When uploading an image on a Codidact community, users are prompted to add alt text - a text alternative to an image - for that image. If they go to submit a post without doing so, or when submitting a post with blank alt text, they are reminded with a link to the help center page on alt text. How...
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2 days ago
Comment Post #290080 It's a [type of system block](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289740/289745#answer-289745). The details aren't exactly public.
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #290095 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Answer A: How to import my StackExchange questions into Codidact?
Welcome to Codidact! This option refers to large-scale data imports that we performed on a couple communities - such as Writing and Outdoors - when we first started in 2019. However, we soon discovered that importing content wasn't good for us for multiple reasons, including making community-build...
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Answer A: Probationary shadowban for new accounts
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "shadowban", but this does pretty much exist already. Most communities on the network - I believe all of them except for Electrical Engineering at the moment - currently have "new site mode" enabled, which grants all new users the Participate Everywhere ability,...
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #290079 Just noting here that codidact.com itself runs off of different software than the rest of the network - the source code for that page can be found at https://github.com/codidact/community-list. That has some upsides and downsides. If the network goes down temporarily due to a memory issue or similar...
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about 1 month ago
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Edit Post #289898 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Answer Advanced formatting help
Posts on Codidact, including questions, answers, articles, tag wikis, help pages, and user profiles, support the use of the following HTML tags: - `a` - `p` - `span` - `b` - `i` - `em` - `s` - `strong` - `hr` - `h1`, `h2`, `h3`, `h4`, `h5`, `h6` - `blockquote` - `img` - `strike` - `de...
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #289880 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Answer A: Referencing Stack Exchange progress on profiles
We are not Stack Exchange. While we share some ideals with SE, and have a similar Q&A-based system, the two platforms operate differently and with differing goals. The feature sets are different, certain policies are different, and experience from one will not directly translate into experience on...
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about 2 months ago
Comment Post #289767 Nope, @#64277 - that page existed already, and I can't edit it through the UI. I just linked it from the Help article.
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2 months ago
Comment Post #289766 taken care of at the same time, thanks for pointing it out
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Edit Post #289767 Initial revision 2 months ago
Answer A: Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center
Done. I've also fixed several typos while I was at it, as well as some general rewording for clarity. I've also added a section to that doc about why some users may earn the "Participate Everywhere" Ability immediately upon joining the community. As far as I'm aware, all communities except for Ele...
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2 months ago
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Answer A: After I logged in, 418 STAT ERROR. "Please re-enable the encryption protocol."
You seem to have run afoul of one of our system blocks. This particular system is usually engaged by a pattern of poor behavior across multiple accounts. While I can't detail exactly how this system works, and what causes it, the best way to avoid getting trapped by it is to avoid getting involved...
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2 months ago
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Answer A: Feature request: direct messages
I don't believe this is something that we're considering for the general userbase, for several reasons. Our mission The mission of the Codidact Network is to provide a space for communities to share, maintain, and curate an information repository, through tooling and support specialized for the...
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2 months ago
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Answer A: Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded
This has been fixed, thank you. I've restored it to the version last updated on March 9th, 2023, according to my local files from when we were making changes at the time. (Although since it only went live on the 16th, according to the blog, I've adjusted the date to properly show when the last update...
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3 months ago
Edit Post #289562 Initial revision 3 months ago
Answer A: Do these comments follow our Code of Conduct?
No, these comments are not in line with the text or spirit of the Code of Conduct. I've gone ahead and removed or edited these particular cases. A couple notes: Please don't call out individuals in public. The original revision of this question called out the author by name, in public; please ...
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3 months ago
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please don't call out individuals publicly
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Edit Post #289426 Initial revision 3 months ago
Answer A: What do we do with suspected AI users?
As with most other suspected violations of site policy, please raise a moderator flag. The mods can then look into it, and escalate it to the Codidact Team if necessary. The mods and admins can then evaluate if it's actually AI-generated (or if we're confident enough to take action), and then remove ...
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3 months ago
Comment Post #289294 It looks like you planned on including a footnote that didn't make it into the final draft. The footnote should probably be added or the marker removed :)
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4 months ago
Edit Post #289193 Initial revision 4 months ago
Answer A: What should I do when I come across PII in a post?
We've just released a new feature that allows for redaction of revision histories. This feature was originally developed by @Taeir for use in his university's private instance in order to redact cases where students would post exam answers. After some discussion, where we decided that this would b...
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4 months ago
Edit Post #289192 Initial revision 4 months ago
Question What should I do when I come across PII in a post?
Sometimes, posts can accidentally contain personal information that shouldn't be out on the internet, such as real names, real IP addresses, home addresses, or other pieces of PII (Personally Identifiable Information). As a user, I can edit the post to remove it (or suggest an edit), but even then...
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4 months ago
Comment Post #289109 I've added a screenshot of where the button can be found, @#36396.
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Comment Post #289058 I'm not sure. That would be consistent, but maybe it should stay in the "active" tab and display "upcoming" instead of "yes"?
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4 months ago
Edit Post #289058 Initial revision 4 months ago
Question Move featured links to the "inactive" section once their end date has passed
When featuring links on the sidebar, moderators have the option of setting a start and end date for when that link will be featured. This works properly; once the stated date is past, that link will no longer show up as featured in the sidebar. However, it does still show up in the "active" sectio...
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4 months ago
Comment Post #289020 Due to the (actual and perceived) conflict of interest with being involved here on Codidact and SE, I've been somewhat avoiding promoting CD directly in SE spaces, due to being a strike negotiator. I don't want anybody to be able to accuse me of sabotaging SE by organizing a strike in order to help C...
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4 months ago
Comment Post #289020 I think you've addressed most of the important points here, thank you. As to why I'm specifically still active on SE (although on strike right now) - during my time there as a moderator and user, I've made a lot of friends on the network, who I don't really have ways of connecting with otherwise. ...
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Comment Post #288951 It might even make sense to have this be adjustable on a community-level basis, not just network-level. For instance, the TTRPG community could have a Roll20 account field, while Software Dev has GitHub.
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Comment Post #288896 Yeah, I think we should take Moderator out of that list, for exactly that reason. I'm ambivalent on removing the "Abilities" heading for mods; we might add other features that can be suspended on a case-by-case basis, such as suggesting edits, which would be separate from the blocks of features that...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #288896 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer A: Inconsistent use of "abilities" and "privileges"
I believe that this is actually intentional and not a bug, because these pages serve different purposes. The /abilities page shows the abilities you can earn through your usage of the community. That's user-oriented, and part of the Abilities feature set. The /priveleges page, though, is a bit ...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #288833 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer A: Is there a test community where you can try out Codidact functionality without bothering people?
Yes. We have two testing environments, https://a.dev.codidact.org/ and https://b.dev.codidact.org/. These are used for testing out new features and fixes before they go live on production, so you may have a slightly different experience, but it can also be used as a sandbox for testing things out. Th...
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5 months ago
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Answer A: Images fail to load when previewed or saved
We've just done a migration on the backend of where the images are being hosted (moving from old infrastructure to the dedicated Codidact infrastructure). This should just be a caching issue for now; if it lasts much longer, I'll poke the relevant people with sharp sticks.
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6 months ago
Comment Post #288402 > Once a privilege is unlocked, can it be removed again from the frontend? In particular, can adjustments to the qualifications, or "win conditions" cause existing privileges to be added or removed? Technically, yes. Moderators have the ability to suspend individual abilities. If you've earned an...
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6 months ago
Comment Post #288194 We're not here to be an intermediary between people and AI, @#53023. If someone wanted to ask an AI they can do that directly. At a bare minimum, I'd expect someone to verify an answer that was generated from somewhere and include that verification in the answer.
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6 months ago
Comment Post #288194 That would have to be determined on a community-level basis, @#53489. I don't believe that we currently have a community where that would be on-topic, although the Power Users and Software Dev folks can correct me if I'm wrong.
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6 months ago
Edit Post #288194 Initial revision 6 months ago
Article Clarifying Codidact's position on AI-generated content
Given recent controversies on various platforms involving AI-generated content, which have resulted in some attention being directed towards our platform, we wanted to clarify where we stand when it comes to this issue. Presenting AI-generated content as your own work is a violation of our policie...
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6 months ago
Edit Post #287883 Initial revision 10 months ago
Article Contributor Spotlight: samcarter, Power [Users] Moderator
It's time for the next edition of our Contributor Spotlight series, in which we highlight community members who contribute to various aspects of our project, as a way of showing appreciation and recognizing the hard work that people are putting into this project. In this round, we're spotlighting sam...
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10 months ago
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Answer A: License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors
Writing and Outdoors both originally imported content from Stack Exchange, which was licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0[^1]. As such, they needed to have that license available on those posts. Since then, the vast majority of the imported posts have been removed, and I agree that it doesn't make sense to...
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10 months ago
Edit Post #287777 Initial revision 10 months ago
Answer A: Does "site" mean "community" or "Codidact" on License field?
"site" in this instance currently refers to the individual community. Yes, this should be standardized; we generally use "community" for each subdomain and "network" for all the communities hosted on .codidact.com (and Collab). "Codidact" can be ambiguous; it can refer to the network, to the organ...
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10 months ago
Edit Post #287601 Initial revision 11 months ago
Article Contributor Spotlight: Taeir, open-source dev
This is the next installment of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. This time, I'm directing the spotlight at Taeir, who started contributing recen...
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11 months ago
Comment Post #287520 See also https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287466 - try clicking on the white space outside the icon and see if it loads?
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12 months ago
Edit Post #287503 Question closed 12 months ago
Comment Post #287466 @#8045 - Does that mean you've tracked down the source and can fix it when you have time, or does someone still need to figure out what's causing the bug?
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #287489 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Any self-hosting devs here?
Questions about self-hosting or running your own Codidact instance can be asked on Codidact Collab. We spun up that site to host questions and answers about the software running our platform. There are definitely people running their own instances of our software; I know that at least @Taeir is do...
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about 1 year ago
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Comment Post #287470 No worries. I was the one who added the shortcut, so I knew how it was supposed to work ;)
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Answer A: Mentioned `d` shortcut not yet showing or working
The "d" keyboard shortcut follows the syntax of other keyboard shortcuts that take you to a different page. Pressing the "g" key - the "go to..." shortcut - and then "d" will take you to the dashboard.
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about 1 year ago
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The person who deals with email is offline until Wednesday evening, but we're aware of the problem
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #287121 Question closed about 1 year ago
Edit Post #287102 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Article Contributor Spotlight: Alexei, Software Development moderator
This is the next installment of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. This time, I'm directing the spotlight at Alexei, one of our moderators on Soft...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #287018 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Process for fixing a typo on codidact.org
You can either raise an issue on GitHub or post a bug report here on Meta. Even the smallest of bug reports are appreciated, and that includes typos. You can also make a pull request directly to fix the problem - don't worry that it's a small change. I don't know when it will be deployed, because...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #286874 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Article Contributor Spotlight: sau226, sysadmin
This is the second of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. In this edition, we're putting the spotlight on sau266, one of our more behind-the-scenes...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286583 There's currently not an official place, no, but feel free to drop recommendations into Discord or to my email!
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #286583 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Article Contributor Spotlight: Moshi, Languages & Linguistics moderator
As a way of highlighting contributions made by our community members, this is the first of a hopefully ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. In this ina...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286465 Where are you referring to the "posts" terminology being used? In the URLs, somewhere in the UI?
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286303 I'd agree with @samcarter here. I'd be on board with making it optionally sticky, but definitely not having it be just sticky.
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over 1 year ago
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Comment Post #286105 It looks like you posted the same comment [three different times](https://powerusers.codidact.com/uploads/VFjem3HucwYHY1H6dAZCQqYC). I'm not quite sure why you're getting an error, but the comments did go through.
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286052 I'm afraid that asking about Stack Exchange is off-topic here on Codidact; we're a separate entity. If you have specific concerns or requests that are pertinent to Codidact, you're welcome to post those here (e.g. a feature-request for guest posting).
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over 1 year ago
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Edit Post #285553 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content
Caveat: This is from my personal perspective and should not be taken as the official Codidact stance on this. Your profile is your personal space: You get to decorate it how you like, more or less. If you want to put up posters of your favorite band, or your preferred political candidate... th...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #285338 We've moved away from importing content from SE, especially mass-imports. It's unlikely to be much of an issue in the future.
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #285288 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: Warn people rather than sending notification for inappropriate link/texts in profile
We attempted to reach out via Discord DM to notify you of the issue - doing it publicly, such as via comments, wasn't the way we wanted to go about addressing this. Unfortunately, there was no response to the Discord DMs that were sent, and we really didn't want to leave a link to a porn site live...
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almost 2 years ago
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Comment Post #285246 On the roadmap: See this [GitHub issue](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/284).
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #285134 @#53922 - Codidact still doesn't meet the notability requirements for a Wikipedia page. We'd need at least two non-affiliated references, such as a news article, to qualify.
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #285076 I quite like the "incubator" suggestion, and we've been discussing it slightly in the community team channels. Would you be willing to write up a fully fleshed-out [feature-request] / [discussion] post here on Meta so that we can get others' input and figure out how we want to go about it, if we do c...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #285098 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: "You need to select a reaction type." But I see no reaction?
Languages & Linguistics Codidact does not currently have any reactions enabled. This means that when you go to react to a post, there are no available reactions, and so you can't actually react. I'm aware that it's confusing to show the "react" feature when you can't actually use it; we should pro...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #284846 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Answer A: Actively investing in non niche network websites
We don't just spin up communities about topics that interest us personally - all new communities go through the Site Proposal process here on Meta. The process includes making sure that there is a minimum number of people committed to using the proposed new community. If you believe that these topics...
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about 2 years ago
Comment Post #284733 I'm also unable to reproduce.
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about 2 years ago
Comment Post #284331 Which post was the one that contained images where alt text wasn't necessary, out of curiosity? The צור קשר one? It's also worth noting that that error message does allow you to post it even without alt text, you just have to press the submit button again. It's a suggestion, not a total blocker.
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about 2 years ago
Edit Post #284314 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Question Accessibility: What can we do better?
As part of our mission to be a place where communities are fully supported, one of our goals is to make sure our site is accessible for everyone. With that in mind... what can we do better, accessibility-wise? What should we keep in mind going forwards? Are there any features that would improve...
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about 2 years ago
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Answer A: Can codidact be used separately from the codidact network with custom local user management?
Yes, you can. Codidact’s platform is open-source for a reason. Anyone can clone the repositories and use the software however they want, provided that you follow the terms of the license that the source code is published under. If you have any questions or run into a problem getting your instan...
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about 2 years ago
Edit Post #283822 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Why should site proposals require groups?
Moderation isn't the only issue, although that's one aspect of it. We don't want to set out to create ghost towns. The point of making sure that there are people who are interested in a proposal before turning it into a full-fledged community is to ensure that there are people who contribute to it...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #283490 I'm getting a certificate for *.codidact.com... try clearing your cache and try again?
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #283452 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Proposal for reorganizing the Help Center
Mithical here - the other documentation lead along with Sigma. A couple notes on this suggestion: Separating network vs. community help: I like that idea. As Sigma mentioned, there are a couple difficulties when we have help pages such as asking / answering guidance that both have similarities ...
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Answer A: Has anyone seen my unicorn?
The service we use to generate user avatars - Unicornify - is temporarily down. I've reached out to the person who runs the site, but he as of yet hasn't gotten back to me. Hopefully this'll be fixed soon. If not, we might have to consider either switching services or running Unicornify ourselves ...
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Comment Post #283054 Or, if a thread becomes empty, it should just be automatically deleted if no comments remain in the thread.
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Answer A: Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists
I think it's worth showing in some way that there are multiple of each type of notifications - for instance, that there are four new comments in a single thread. It more clearly indicates what's new and what you need to catch up on. Maybe it'd be best to collapse notifications in such a way that y...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #282921 Out of curiosity, why do you want to remove some of you accounts across our communities? I also noticed you sent in a support request for an account deletion. What prompted this?
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #282680 @#8049 It hasn't yet been fixed (just tried it myself; still getting a 404). I believe the problem is the same - the abilities pages 404 for non-logged-in users is 404ing (probably because it makes a check to see if you've earned it / what your progress is). Navigating to either https://meta.codidact...
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over 2 years ago
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Comment Post #282479 You need to create a new account; the dev system has a separate account system from the main network. As mentioned in Monica's comment, you need to manually edit the sign up link you'll get to point to `a.dev.codidact.org` instead `meta.codidact.com`.
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #282479 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Sandbox to test formatting and other features?
You can always take a poke around our dev testing site, which is currently located at https://a.dev.codidact.org/. While its main purpose is to serve as a place to test new features and break things, I don't see why it couldn't be used to test out other things. Having more content there of different ...
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Answer A: How can I do a search across all of Codidact?
Unfortunately, we currently don't have a network-wide search engine. I think this is the first time it's been brought up. If there's interest in such a feature, someone can write a feature request and it'll go through our process for handling those. In the meantime, though, your best bet is pro...
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Comment Post #281893 @Istiak - depends on what that community decides. In general, if it's directly relevant to the post I don't think it should be too much of a problem, especially after we finish reworking comments to work differently.
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over 2 years ago
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Answer A: Chat feature for Moderators
We eventually do plan on having integrated chat, including different access levels for different user groups (such as moderators). However, we do not have the resources (such as available developer time) currently to build one, so we're using Discord. Whether or not a question should be closed is ...
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Comment Post #281824 Developer confirmed it's the same root cause, so I'm going to leave this closed as a duplicate. Thanks for the report, though!
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #281827 @elgonzo good point. I've submitted a [PR](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/499) to update the wording.
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #281824 I think it's the same root problem, but I'll check with a developer.
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #281824 Question closed over 2 years ago
Comment Post #281781 @FoggyFinder - That's a good point. We'll keep that in mind going forward from here.
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #281781 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Reputation is disappeared from user's card recently
This was intentional; we're testing out deemphasizing reputation here on Meta. This was a decision by the Codidact Team. Of course, if it turns out that it's detrimental somehow to not show the reputation number, or if the community decides that they really want it back, it'll be reinstated. But w...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #281661 @OlinLathrop - if something like that happens in the future, you're welcome to escalate that to the Community Team for us to take a look at.
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over 2 years ago
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Edit Post #281661 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Is it OK to edit a post in order to bump it?
No, making useless edits just to bump the post isn't something that we want to encourage on Codidact communities. Edits should be to improve the post and that's it. Looking at the reasoning for bumping, though, there are two main factors: To earn votes, and to get a response. While we do curren...
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Edit Post #281509 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Let's revamp our status tags
Something that occurred to me after posting the original suggestion would be that an [under-review] tag would be helpful as well. This tag would indicate that the suggestion / bug / whatever is under review by the appropriate people - be that the dev team, the community team, local mods - but hasn't ...
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Question Include a step about licenses in the tour
During our tour to teach users how to use the site, there's a point where we guide you through asking a question, including adding a title and tags: screenshot of the tour, showing the title and tags section However, something you have when posting an actual post that you don't currently have i...
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Edit Post #281503 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Question Let's revamp our status tags
One of our holdovers from Somewhere Else is the way we mark bugs and feature requests with status tags - including [status-completed], [status-declined], [status-bydesign], and we've got our own [status-planned]. The tags are marked in red like other moderator-only tags. But... maybe we can do thi...
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Answer A: want to work with Codidact as a programmer/idea giver
All of our code is open-source and hosted on GitHub. You can find the main repository for the Q&A software that the site runs in the QPixel repo. Anybody is welcome - and encouraged! - to contribute to the code and make pull requests there. Help is always appreciated! On the actual non-profit comp...
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Comment Post #281435 Hi! Could you please split this up into separate posts for each point? We have a [Site Proposals](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/10) category where you can propose sites (just look at the guidance before doing so, please). Also worth noting that we do not have the resources to dedicate to devel...
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Answer A: Meaningful hovertext for voting area
As sau226 mentioned, this is the score of the post. Since the way we calculate post score can be a little confusing, there's a help center article that explains exactly how it works. I agree that it'd make sense to add something like "Score: 0.5" or similar, to clarify what that number is.
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Comment Post #281411 ...feature requests are also perfectly fine here on Meta.
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Comment Post #281407 I don't believe we currently have an API, but I'll hold off on answering until one of the devs confirms. We do plan on having one but I'm not aware of any active development on that project.
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Answer A: A note on April 1st 2021
Flappy Codidactyl score 15 Managed to get a score of 15, but I'm afraid the Codidactyl has gotten into the sugar... And immediately afterward, I managed a score of 56 :D
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Comment Post #281239 @ShashankVM - You're welcome to post a feature request to change where the user information shows up! That deserves its own discussion, though, not the comments section on an unrelated post. As for gray areas - yes, that's something I'm willing to accept. Communities and their moderators can figure o...
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Edit Post #281239 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: What are the pros and cons of gamifying Codidact.org?
"gamification" is a bit of a different concept from "fun". Gamification refers to incentivizing participation; we do this currently via reputation (and Abilities to a certain extent). You get points (and unlock Abilities) the more you participate. We don't currently have any sort of badge system, ...
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Comment Post #280955 ...and we certainly don't have the funds to pay for an actual ad on Stack right now.
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Comment Post #280952 What do you mean by "Why don't we advertise on SE"? Where in particular are you thinking of?
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Comment Post #280931 Unfortunately, I don't think many of us are really active on Reddit. I've technically got an account but I don't really post there.
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Edit Post #280834 Post edited:
post content should be relevant to the matter at hand; this isn't the place to discuss a suspension
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Edit Post #280794 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: Add 'close this help' to Codidact keyboard shortcuts list
Addressed and merged in #439, and should be live the next time we deploy.
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Comment Post #280788 Based on the revision history here, I would also like to note that we do also have a [Code of Conduct](https://meta.codidact.com/policy/code-of-conduct) here on Codidact. Bashing trans people is just as much against the Code of Conduct here as it may be anywhere else; something to keep in mind for fu...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #280723 It's also worth noting that it's also sometimes possible to get a community-specific feature implemented, such as Judaism's Sefaria linker.
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Answer A: Heads up: small design changes, a better user card and some long-expected features
[feature-request] Can we increase the size of the license a bit? It's... really small at the moment and for those of us without great eyes it's a bit difficult to make out at default size.
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Answer A: With abilities here, where did my Software Development question (posted Saturday 13:58 UTC) go?
Some posts and other updates seem to have gotten overlooked during the update - specifically, the ones created after the process was started and before it ended. Since the update was running for... a while, it's going to take a bit to get to all the outliers (I think. I'm not part of the technical te...
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Comment Post #279275 https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/191
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Edit Post #279279 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: 403 error when voting to close
You're getting a 403 error because you don't have the ability to close questions. Currently, this power is granted based on reputation thresholds (I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head), and you don't have enough reputation to have earned the ability. That's why it's 403 forbidden - you...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #279268 What site? What's your rep?
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Answer A: How to financially support the Codidact project?
We're currently not able to accept donations, since we don't yet have a nonprofit set up quite yet. However, as mentioned in the Newsletter, we're actively working on setting one up! A couple weeks ago, several Codidact members sat down on a Zoom call with a legal advisor sort of person who can he...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #278705 If someone changes their username for, say, privacy concerns, we also don't want the old username prominently available in that case.
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Comment Post #278437 Might even work as a category on [Software Development](https://software.codidact.com).
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Question Trying to edit profile gives 500 error
When I try to access /users/edit/profile to edit my profile, I seem to be triggering a 500 server error (ID: `d737d104-eea0-45a7-bd81-fda1070c6070`). This is what I see in the browser console, if it's relevant: > Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 () meta.css:...
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Comment Post #278311 Yes, it's subjective; that's intentional, because setting rules in stone doesn't work very well when humans are involved, especially online. There has to be room for situations that are context-dependent and other gray areas. Moderators then have to make judgement calls. (It's entirely possible that ...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #278311 @Lundin - There's currently no technical ability to include a reason when deleting a post; sounds like a good feature request to me, though.
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Answer A: Why was this answer to the volunteer-discussion removed?
Update: The answer has been edited and undeleted. The last paragraph - the one calling for staff to step down if they cannot make Codidact their top priority - has been removed, since that constitutes a personal attack against the volunteer Codidact staff. It's also been edited to make it clearer ...
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Comment Post #278282 We're currently working on setting up a non-profit organization of some sort, that will be able to accept donations and fund any expenses (yes, such as the servers). I don't think we're going to have enough money coming in at any point in the near future to even *consider* paying real wages for staff...
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Edit Post #278274 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: What does "status-declined" tag mean when it's added to discussion type of questions?
I wasn't the one who added the tag, and I didn't handle the flag. But the way I see it, the [status-declined] tag was added specifically because of this line: > The Codidact community team have accepted to be the staff and run the community. So, in my opinion, if Codidact is an aspiring platform, ...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #278272 Exactly. I'm a relatively busy person; I'm an athlete-in-training as well as a sports coach; I'm being drafted into the military next month; I have family and community obligations, plus, y'know, I like to have some time for myself. I contribute to Codidact because I enjoy it and want it to succeed, ...
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Comment Post #278226 See: https://writing.codidact.com/questions/74901, https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277957
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problem is with the Wikipedia link, not the CD software
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Comment Post #278017 @interested - On your original post on Judaism Meta, you received some responses (on a now-deleted question); that's what I was referring to.
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Edit Post #278018 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Would like written chat.
It's currently not feasible to develop a built-in chat system. While we do plan on having an integrated chat at some point in the future, it's not a possibility with the current time and resources available to the development team. We have a Discord server that is used for discussion in the interi...
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Edit Post #278017 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Why are my comments deleted?
First off - comments aren't the proper place for feature requests such as increasing the size of the comment box. For a feature request, please ask a new question. Secondly, your comments were deleted for being not constructive and for being irrelevant to the post at hand. Let's take a look at wha...
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Edit Post #278010 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Why prefering Codidact to Stack Exchange?
There are several differences in the philosophy of Codidact vs. Stack Exchange that may contribute to people preferring CD over SE. For-profit vs non-profit Stack Exchange is a for-profit company. With that in mind, they have to worry about making a profit and monetizing their products; there's...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #277998 The [help center](https://meta.codidact.com/help) has some useful information, but may be slightly less useful if you're coming from Stack.
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Comment Post #277998 It's worth noting that [user privileges are in the middle of a total rework](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/132), so things will be changing wrt that relatively soon.
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Edit Post #277997 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Should we use the Article type for bug reports?
Nah. Posting them as questions allows for a more detailed explanation than "fixed" if there's a reason to do so - such as an especially interesting bug, or someone taking the opportunity to explain how certain bits of the system work. Plus, the people who fix the bugs then get the opportunity t...
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Comment Post #277959 Perhaps they shouldn't show the username to the OP or non-signed-in users
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Comment Post #277945 Currently, [status-planned] is basically equivalent to "it's in the [Trello board](https://trello.com/b/BK4uxLoP/codidact-todo)". A [status-in-progress] would be more equivalent to the yellow in-progress tag on the Trello board, just a lot more public.
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Comment Post #277924 @MonicaCellio - [this is the post](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277886) under discussion; it still has [status-completed]. (There's another, similar, request that's tagged [status-planned] because the PR hasn't been merged yet.)
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Comment Post #277889 This has now been merged, and will be live the next time a deploy happens.
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Answer A: Please add tooltips for admins / moderator "icons" (characters) in the user list
This is implemented in QPixel Pull Request #171, which has not yet been merged. After this is merged, it'll be live the next time a deploy happens.
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Edit Post #277921 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Posts should have a visible indication whether they've been edited, and when the last edit was made
This is now implemented. Next to the CC license on each post, a pencil icon will appear with the username of whoever last edited the post (if it wasn't the OP) as well as when the edit was made. > Screenshot of an example, showing an edit made about an hour ago by Mithical
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Edit Post #277915 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: A proposal for keyboard shortcuts
After using this for a while, I have a couple improvements / suggestions. g > c > enter should take you to the categories page. g > s should take you to search. When opening a dialogue with multiple options, such as flags or closing, you should be able to select an option using the number ke...
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Edit Post #277539 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: FR: Meta categories
Meta is its own meta. The entire site is already for meta-discussion of the Codidact network. Since this site is itself part of the network, discussion of Codidact Meta on Codidact Meta itself is fine. While it would be very meta to have a Meta Meta category, I don't think it's necessary to differ...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #277490 For instance, I've been using the default license (CC BY-SA 4.0), but since doing some more research on the different licenses I'll start using the NC SA license for things like writing challenges
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Comment Post #277442 Not to mention that _creating_ a unique favicon for every new site might not exactly be the simplest thing to do
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Comment Post #277348 @MonicaCellio - say, someone discovers that a moderator is actually underage (12 or so); they're not really legally allowed to have an account in that situation.
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Comment Post #277349 Also useful: including tags as required in a search
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Comment Post #277336 @MathPhysics - I don't know what license the help center articles on SE are under, but I'm assuming it's not the same as user-generated content, so there could be a legal problem doing that. Also, since we're _different_ from SE, their help center articles won't necessarily work for us. To get what's...
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Edit Post #277336 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: The Codidact Help should be more comprehensive and practical
Yep; the Help Center definitely needs some more fleshing out. To that end, I'd like to point you towards this question that I posted a couple months ago: What help pages need to be written? If there are specific topics that you'd like to see covered by a help article, please leave an answer the...
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Comment Post #277251 I don't think a rich text editor is going to happen any time soon, but you can post a feature request and it can go onto the list. I'm guessing it's a lot of work to build, though, and not especially high priority, so with the current number of active devs it's unlikely to be implemented any time soo...
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Comment Post #277251 @Moshi - eh, if you leave a tab open it's easy to get confused :)
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Answer A: Why isn't the text editor in the same font as what posts are?
It makes it much easier to tell that you're writing or editing a post, for one, instead of looking at a completed post. In addition, it's rather standard practice to have your font be monospace when composing a post if you're not using rich text. Since we're using Markdown, it makes sense to go wi...
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Comment Post #277114 @user53100 - something being off-topic doesn't mean people won't ask it. The users of the site would have to constantly be closing such questions again and again.
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Edit Post #277116 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Avatars fail to due to unicornify.pictures outdated Go version
Fixed. I reached out to balpha, the creator, on Twitter, and he fixed it so that it works again. > @superplane39 (Mithical (BLM)): .@balpha @unicornify is dead :( > > @iCatija (Catija): NOOOOOOOOOOOO! &#x1f984; &#x1f984; &#x1f984; > > @balpha (Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe): Fixed, thanks! >...
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Edit Post #277114 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Medical science site
I am concerned about the ability of such a site to maintain its quality and accuracy. This is the Internet. Even if we require sources for all information contained in posts, there are sources for every piece of misinformation out there. It's hard to tell at a glance at times what is a legitimate ...
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Edit Post #277113 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: What happened to codidact / core project in ASP.NET?
There was no progress on the C# project for months - it had gone entirely quiet, due to a lack of people available who were familiar enough with the language to contribute. While C# was chosen as the ideal language stack when the Codidact project started, it became apparent that it wasn't realistic c...
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Comment Post #276750 It's a bit redundant to display it *all the time*, though. That's why I suggested having the raw votes be easily *accessible* (with one or two clicks) but not to be displayed by default.
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Edit Post #276749 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes?
Currently, when viewing a post, Codidact will show you the raw votes on a post, with the breakdown into upvotes and downvotes: Screenshot of the voting buttons, showing +12 and -1. There's been some feedback that this is a bit too much to show, especially coming from platforms like Stack Exchan...
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Comment Post #276697 @ArtOfCode - ah yes. I moved "delete" out into its own tool. (I had originally had both close and delete separate from vote, but then moved close in so as not to interfere with comment. I then put delete in for consistency, but overlooked the duplicate "d".)
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Question A proposal for keyboard shortcuts
(This may not be the simplest feature request. It's also not extremely high priority. It's a nice-to-have, not imperative, and may not be possible at the moment - which is fine.) Everyone loves keyboard shortcuts. Programmers are known to love using their keyboards to whiz around without touch...
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Edit Post #276585 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question Alt text is broken
If I disable images on Codidact, I get, naturally, a broken image instead. However, instead of the alt text that is supposed to show up instead, I get... nothing. I just added alt text to this answer by @ArtOfCode, and then out of curiosity disabled images. Answer with broken image and no al...
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Comment Post #276557 I believe a complete overhaul of the image processing system is in the works, although don't quote me on that
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Edit Post #276542 Post edited:
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Question What help pages need to be written?
I've been working on the user help center recently - writing new help pages and improving old ones. You can see the latest changes and suggestions - even the ones that haven't been deployed to the site yet - over on GitHub. Of course, though, I'm not going to be able to come up with everything - t...
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Suggested Edit Post #276434 Suggested edit:
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Comment Post #276417 I was planning on writing a sort of tour for Codidact, although a bit more in-depth than SE's, just to explain sort of how the site works and point new users towards other help pages and possibly chat, but naturally that depends on the rest of the help center being fleshed out.
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Comment Post #276415 (I'm a Co-Lead for User Help for Codidact.) I've spent the past few days writing up help center articles; currently, things are being coordinated in chat and on the [docs GitHub repo](https://github.com/codidact/docs/tree/master/User-Help). A tour is definitely on the list of things to do in the near...
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Edit Post #276338 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question Meta answers show up as Q&A in search results
In search results, if the result is a meta answer, it incorrectly shows as being in the Q&A category instead of the meta category. Questions appear to show properly. Here's an example from Writing.CD: Screenshot of search results, showing a question labeled "Meta" and answers marked "Q&A". The ans...
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Edit Post #74948 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Puzzling Codidact site
I have a feeling it's going to be a bit difficult to get the community over here. I'm an active participant on Puzzling.SE, and I haven't seen any widespread discontent with the company or any other indication that they're looking for somewhere else to go. While some level of customization would b...
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Answer A: What is the difference between the subdomain forum.codidact and the rest of the communities?
The https://forum.codidact.org site is a Discourse installation that served as a place for discussion and planning of the Codidact project before any of the Codidact sites were up and running - long predating Meta.CD. Seeing as there was a need for coordination and discussion before any Codidact site...
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