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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 Mithical‭

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Q&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 ther...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 - ...

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

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Q&A Is it really like this?

I'm sorry you had a poor experience with the Incubator system. The Incubator is a bit of an experiment; as we continue to use it, we'll come across areas for improvement and ways to oil squeaky hin...

posted 3mo ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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 3y 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 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Lack of a link to chat on Outdoors and Proposals

Thanks for the report - it looks like that step was missed when setting up those communities for whatever reason. I've gone and updated the site settings for both Outdoors and Proposals and they sh...

posted 2mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 - lon...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Correct avenue to discuss a specific moderator

The easiest way to do this would be to contact the Codidact Team directly. You can do this via several different ways, including emailing us at support@codidact.org, which will create a support ti...

posted 5mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Buggy text in Cooking site's help center

I've fixed this - it looks like either that placeholder was never replaced or it was overwritten at some point and we didn't notice (we had an overwriting issue a few months or so ago that possibly...

posted 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 no...

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 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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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Q&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 und...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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.

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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: There's been some feedback that this is a bit too much to show, espec...

8 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A 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 ke...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 individu...

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

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Q&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. T...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Add 'close this help' to Codidact keyboard shortcuts list

Addressed and merged in #439, and should be live the next time we deploy.

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How do I "answer" a feature request or a bug report?

In addition to what Monica wrote, yes, a bug report or a feature request is indeed a "call-to-action to the developers", and as such can only really be answered by the developers. Let me introduce...

posted 12mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Pluralization typo in Help Center page "Guidelines for referencing and quoting"

Fixed, thanks. I also took the opportunity to add a line about AI-generated content while I was editing that page.

posted 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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