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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.

Posts by Mithical‭

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Q&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,...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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. Ther...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 dashbo...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 fi...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Blog Contributor Spotlight: sau226, sysadmin

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 le...

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 res...

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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...

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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, access...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&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 ...

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 b...

posted 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 d...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 fi...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 ne...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 thing...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 re...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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