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Posts by Mithical‭

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Q&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 bu...

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 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: However, something you have when posting an a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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 [s...

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

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Q&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 contr...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 ...

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

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Q&A A note on April 1st 2021

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

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

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Q&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 poin...

posted 3y 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 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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.

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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......

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 hea...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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...

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

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Q&A 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'...

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

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Q&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 constitu...

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

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Q&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 acce...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 dele...

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

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Q&A Why prefer 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. ...

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 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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.

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

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Q&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 wit...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&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 f...

posted 3y ago 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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