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Posts by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?

Most of the sites are struggling to get questions and while it seems to me at least that more effort has been put into optimizing for the answerers than for the askers. To put it another way, ther...

8 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Can related questions be added to the sidebar?

A feature that SE has that Qpixel lacks is the related questions in the side bar. It makes it easier to find other similar questions or even duplicates. It also creates more engagement because afte...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Should we display the number of views?

I think we should, voting score is a poor indicator of how useful a post is because most visitors aren't going to sign up and vote. Right now it's hard to tell how many people are reading the post...

posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Need a better way of finding unanswered questions

As of right now, the only real way to see that a question has no answers is to go off the answer count, which is small and not real easy to see. On Outdoors where I am not interested in writing an...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Exact search doesn't seem to be searching in the title

An example where an exact search returns no results for the copy and pasted title. "Should we display the number of views?" https://meta.codidact.com/posts/search?utf8=✓&search="Should+we...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Impolite comments

As of right now you can flag the post and write in the message box that there are rude/ non constructive comments on the post since it’s not currently possible to flag individual comments.

posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Exclude featured posts from the Hot Posts list

Can the Hot Question list be changed so that featured posts don't show up in it? They are already in the list once.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Wrong category is pulled in when searching by tag on a different category that shares the tag family

On Outdoors there is blue icon that says what category a question is in when searching by tag. However when categories share the same tag set it will say that Q&A posts are in the Gear Recommen...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can we get a page with links to all of the top level posts from across the network as they are created?

Currently in order to check for new posts on the sites I am interested in, I have to visit the sites individually. Since the posts are stored in one DB would it be possible to get a page here that...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Allow mods to pin posts to the sidebar

Currently two sites, Outdoors and Photography are running month-long contests. Currently, both are showing up in the Hot Posts list, but that will only be for a week or so. Could it be possible to ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A How can we improve community proposals?

Just to throw in my two cents, right now other than the link way down at the bottom of the page and extra link in the sidebar on Photography, the sites are really trying to be built while standing ...

posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members?

Have we considered some way of displaying questions from one site on another? It seems like the easiest people to convince to join a site would be members of other Codidact sites and they would alr...

posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Which communities have shown interest?

Outdoors.SE has had some interest in moving away from SE, https://outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1611/what-is-status-of-efforts-that-were-started-during-the-mess-to-create-a-new-patf ...

posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we get an optional featured image for the home pages?

Both Outdoors and Photography are running photo contests and it would be nice to display the winning image from the last contest in the sidebar. My idea of how this would look, It would also be...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Where can I find the discussions over the general approach of Codidact?

The old forum still has the discussions that came before this site, and there are also the channels in Discord. That's probably most of the older discussions, there might be some in the SE chats f...

posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Can we get a page with the tags listed in hierarchical and then alphabetical order?

The hierarchies of tags are awesome, but its a little hard to see the relationship. Could we get a page where the tags are displayed like this, Animals Antelopes Bears Black Bears Polar Bears ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we get a mod page with the most recent comments left on the site?

Right now there really isn't a good way for a mod to delete rude comments before their parent post is flagged, other than looking through profiles of repeat offenders. On sites with imported commen...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A On the site users page can we get a sort by votes?

Being able to see a list of users and how many times they have votes was useful on the old sites to see which users were engaged in the voting. What I would propose is that on the /users page that...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Would be nice to have a link to chat on the main sites.

Currently, this site and Outdoors have discord servers set up for chatting, supposedly Writing has one as well but I haven't been able to find it. It would be nice to have a link to those servers ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 17d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A I shouldn't be able to vote on deleted posts.

There is one deleted answer here and given that is has been deleted, I shouldn't be able to either upvote or downvote it, but I can. It looks like up and downvotes on the deleted answer are also ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "Are you sure?" popup when closing a page

I accidentally closed a tab with a question and lost some changes so I do feel your pain. However, if we are going to fire an event on window exit I would much rather it be saving the draft in its...

posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Can the close notice be moved to above the question?

Here is what one of the closed questions looks like, and as you can see one would have to scroll all the way down to find the link to the dupe target. I think it would be much better if the close ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Requests to improve the contests

There are a couple of things that I think would be nice to improve contests, Hide the score while the contest is ongoing, that way it doesn't influence other people's votes. Sort answers in two w...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Notices are still on posts after claiming SE accounts and the score appears to only count votes on posts after the account was claimed.

These users Cobaltduck and Oddeer both claimed their SE accounts and their posts are correctly associated. However on some of the posts, example 1, example 2 there is still a notice saying that it...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Is it really necessary to sign up for Codidact META when already signed up to Codidact?

It's because there are two different software platforms here, forum.codidact.org is running on Discourse meta.codidact.org is on running on QPixel. At some point the idea is to stop using the D...

posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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