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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #290438 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Question | — |
Add search to the Help Center I'm looking for specific information in the Help Center. (In this case, I want to learn more about comments, but I don't think there's an article for them just yet.) One useful tool on many help pages is search. But that doesn't seem possible with Codidact. Something that might work (given 0 knowl... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290418 |
+1 to the inbox, @#8046. An ideal solution that I need to remember on Discourse communities too. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290419 |
Seems worth a try. As long as the percentage is an integer. ;-) (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290389 |
It's not my first rodeo. ;-) I think I've stopped worrying about Stack Exchange and I strongly suspect it's being replaced by a mix of alternatives. [Discourse has potential](https://jlericson.com/2023/12/08/why_discourse.html), but I think there is a niche for pure Q&A. My guess is that companies wi... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290418 |
Given a space to put it, that's a perfectly reasonable solution. I would say banner blindness is real and putting it in a more noticeable spot would help people find it. It depends on which trade off works best for the community goals. Feedback now might pay dividends later to make a popup worth the... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290419 |
> Would it be ok if it still says "3750" when you're really at 3792, if it updates when you get to 3800? If we were to take this sort of approach, what would be a good step value?
Maybe ~3750/30,000? I do think the 3 with a bunch of zeros is hard to interpret, though. (I added a comma, but I know ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290389 |
Post edited: Noticed the "draft saved" shift while working on another answer. |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290418 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How about explicitly inviting new user feedback? When collecting feedback, it helps to reduce barriers as much as possible. A common (and useful) technique is to have a little popup asking for a rating. Usually this is a Likert scale with a prompt such as: > I found the answer to my question. > 1 Strongly disagree | 2 Disagree | 3 Neither agr... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290389 |
I'm missing some way to signal I saw this comment without writing a response. Add it to the list! ;-) (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290389 |
These are completely fair points. I do think, however, it's hard to change something that seems to work for the people already using a site. New users don't (and shouldn't be expected) to read Meta, so they either struggle through the initial barriers or give up. Getting their voices is _really hard_... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290389 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Question | — |
Some things I observed as I started poking around Codidact I'm a bit hesitant to write this since it's not generally a good idea to walk into a host's house and immediately criticize the way it's laid out. But there really is only one chance to make first impressions and I want to remember what it was like to encounter Codidact.[^1] Taking notes on first imp... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290326 |
To put it another way, the tricky problem is showing the difference between +0/-0 and +X/-X. Dealing with +0/-X is relatively easy. I'm not sure you necessarily need to use the same solution to both problems. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290326 |
I think showing voting solves the problem of obviously poor answers. (But so does a the SO score in all but the most extreme cases.) It would make a lot of sense to have a threshold below which an answer is visibly signalled as "no good". Maybe even hide answers behind a link. (Cribbing this from [Di... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290326 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes? Why show scores at all? When I was at Stack Exchange, we spent a good deal of time discussing sort orders in the context of obsolete answers. One suggestion was to change the sort order to use Wilson scoring. The objections were: 1. The algorithm is confusing so will raise more questions than s... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
Something to consider: [Discourse uses reading stats to grant trust levels.](https://jlericson.com/2020/09/15/cc_moderation.html) Fundamentally it's about encouraging people to understand your community before jumping in with both feet. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |