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Activity for Lundin
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A: Why not broaden Electrical Engineering to Engineering? This has been proposed before https://meta.codidact.com/posts/74999. My comment then was: > I'm a dipl. computer engineer and if you ask me what an "engineering site" is about, I wouldn't be able to answer. The only thing that brings all the diverse engineering disciplines together is structured ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Add colors for font on all websites? The reason why this wasn't added on SO is because lots of people already struggle to use correct formatting for emphasis, using code formatting, quote format and weird crap like that. It's kind of like if you give a kid a box of new crayons. You can be sure that they will try out all the crayons in t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Where can I ask about fixing a Fairphone 3? Your question "how to get a display out of the frame of a consumer product" doesn't have anything to do with electronics. For the same reason as asking how to get a shelf out of your fridge has nothing to do with cooking. Regarding troubleshooting actual electronics, here's from an answer I wrote ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we improve community proposals? I liked this answer where some external program was used to keep track of interested users. Generally, you would divide interested users in three groups: - Potential moderators. - Core users. - Casual users. I think naming (temporary) moderators before the site is started would help a lot in... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Move posts between different categories through edits? I think it would be very handy if users with edit privileges, or at the very least the OP themselves, could move posts between different categories on the same site. This would be particularly handy for communities with a "sandbox" category. Letting regular (trusted) users do this would also redu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Notification directs to me to 403 error page Just got a notification about a comment in my inbox. It leads to a 403 forbidden error page, so I believe I might either be lacking some privilege to view it, or maybe the post got deleted within minutes from the notification popped up. This is the URL: https://software.codidact.com/questions/278... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Factual History Site Tossing out this draft proposal to get things going, based on what's been said so far. Please leave comments below - I'll update this post with given feedback. Though feel free to edit it yourself & regard it as "community wiki". Community name: History URL: history.codidact.com Categori... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why is the main Codidact project named QPixel? It was an old project developed by ArtOfCode before the Codidact project even started: https://forum.codidact.org/t/i-have-an-se-clone-how-do-we-feel-about-building-on-that/74 (Why it was named QPixel specifically, I don't know.) It used a different tech stack than the one the devs had agreed ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Can't edit a question just to add tags. One can apparently not make an edit to a post just to change the tags. There is a message that nothing was changed because I didn't edit the post. Well, I didn't edit the body of the post, just the tags. This makes it impossible to add/correct tags to otherwise perfectly fine questions, so I belie... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Music site, for both fans and musicians > Is this list complete? Are there any other types of questions you'd like to see in such a site? > How musically-related must a question be? Should we allow questions about lyrics (and if so, English-only or other languages as well)? Something I'm missing on the Internet is a reliable site whe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage Just to throw out another idea: why restrict the scope to use of software? The scope could also include the use of PC hardware and use of other consumer electronics. With different categories. A lot of trouble-shooting software questions will be borderline hardware questions. Also, similar to how... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What criteria are used to determine to launch a new community? I think this answer by @laserkittens to a community proposal is very interesting. It does not just keep track over how many that are interested, but also a qualified guess over how active the users will be, if they are potential mod material and so on. This is something that a user cooked up thems... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A badge! A badge for completing the Codidactyl Tour. Or even several badges!! And points!! There are 3 non-related things we might want to keep track of or reward: - user activity - the user is active on the site - moderator suitability - the user does user moderator tasks - domain knowledge If that is done with badges or score etc probably doesn't matter much. But if we for e... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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It is possible to close a question as duplicate to itself. I wanted to close one of my own meta posts as duplicate, but accidentally pasted the URL to the question I was closing. The site accepted that the post got closed as duplicate to itself. In my opinion, this shouldn't be allowed, since it doesn't make any sense. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? Assuming the favourite tags per community feature gets implemented, then how about some manner of social media-like "feed"/start page? Where all activity involving yourself pops up.A compilation of customized relevant information: new answers to your questions, votes, comments, dev/mod announceme... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Do we have/should we have community wikis? Alternatively, we could just make a policy that it's OK to close vote posts as duplicates even when you are the original author. This was never explicitly forbidden on SE, but sometimes frowned upon. Maybe code a mechanism where anyone can suggest a duplicate target, even if they are the original... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Do we have/should we have community wikis? Over at Software Development, I've tried to write a self-answered Q&A that addresses the by far most common FAQ of all time in the topics of C and C++ programming. When posting it on SO, I would have made such a post "community wiki", meaning that I would up all claims & credits for the post and ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Let us have a transparent review system. Anyone who has been remotely close to any form of moderator position, or a leadership position in general, can tell you that all forms of disciplinary actions must be carried out privately. Nobody responds well to getting a temporary suspension or a warning. They will react far more negatively if... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How granular should network communities be? If you'll allow me to come up with a made-up dystopia community scenario: Suppose you are a professional carpenter who like to discuss your trade with other professionals. So you start a carpentry site. The first thing that went wrong was that the site attracted a lot of "do it yourself" amate... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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File extension bug when uploading pics I just noticed a bug related to file extension when uploading pictures to the site. If you have named your file `.JPG` the site complains about invalid file extension since it only knows `.jpg`. Renaming the image file to lower case solves the problem. Very likely a classic Windows vs Linux bug. L... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Strange dead "communities" link from the main site From https://codidact.com/ there is a link "communities", leading to https://codidact.com/community-assets/. Clicking on it gives 403 forbidden. I'm assuming it's just some minor cosmetic hiccup and the link should simply be removed? Given that all communities are already listed on that page. U... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community Rules We should hope that different communities have different moderation standards. On SE it was a huge problem that users started applying the standards from one community onto others. The majority of new users came from SO - a site with fairly strict moderation and zero tolerance against subjective topi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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No notification about too long comments during edit If you write a long comment close to 500 characters, then edit it and go beyond 500, you get no notification that the comment is now too long. The letter counter isn't present during edit and when you click done, nothing happens. The comment doesn't get changed and you get no error message, the s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I kind of like the idea, especially for outdated/obsolete technology. But I'm concerned over how subjective a "dangerous" mark might end up. For example when it comes to programming, I work with safety-critical embedded systems. The concerns I might have for what makes a program dangerous are not... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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The site claims I made edits to post while I was offline The site claims I edited this post 6 hours ago: https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276256 6 hours ago I was very much asleep since that's around 4am here. I don't remember editing this post at all, but maybe I did long time ago and it didn't get approved until now? At any rate it's r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Site for office suites Regarding scope, maybe extend it to all software used in an office environment, such as mail clients and VOIP meeting/chat software etc. Some of these might not be considered part of a "suite". Skype wasn't, for example, until MS bought them. Regarding programming and things like VBA that are inte... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes Votes on meta supposedly means "agree/don't agree". Which may make sense in some cases, not so much in other cases. I have argued many times on the Codidact forums/meta that using the same Q&A meta model as SE should be avoided. It is a model that we know is ill-suited both for discussion and supp... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Suggested edits don't show meaningful diff When a suggested edit review appears for your post, it isn't possible to see what was changed. Someone made an edit to my post here https://software.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/86 and the diff I get contains the whole post, in the form of an unformatted wall of text. It's not possible to see wh... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel Some thoughts: - A clarification of the term "community" might be needed. My take is that this is meant to be a Codidact network-wide panel. But currently we use the term "communities" as in this listing: https://codidact.com/. I take it that having one panel per site ("community") isn't what you ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? Lessons learnt from the past I've been at SO pretty much from the start. It is true that SO has sub-communities in a sense. Each major programming language (tag) has their own flavour of slightly different posting rules, different ways to deal with FAQ and canonical dupes and different tag usage r... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Bug Reports category I agree. We could benefit from having: - One category for discussing site/network use and features (current Q&A) - One category for plain bug reports. - One category for support requests and beginner help. - The existing categories for site proposals and blog/info. There are all non-related ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Hot Network Questions like feature? I think there needs to be criteria for why a post should end up there. Whom should the post be interesting to? There are two possible different audiences/scenarios: - This post is interesting to read for beginners of the topic or for anyone generally curious, who do not have any deeper knowledge o... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Self-answered Q&A - posting Q and A at the same time I'm assuming that self-answered Q&A is fine and on-topic in most communities - if not, open for discussion below. "That other site" got a little check box which you can use upon posting a question, so that you can write your answer at the same time as the question, then post both at once. Could... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Signing in should sign you in on all sites Spontaneously, I'd yell "I like this feature too!". Until I start to ponder a bit deeper. Here's the catch: please keep in mind that people may wish to use different accounts for different sites. For example: someone might want to use their professional public self on the main programming site... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Software Engineering && Mathematics && Computer Science My thoughts regarding a software engineering site: Overall, the site needs to be relaxed and tolerant. There needs to be a list of what is on topic and what isn't, but it shouldn't be set in stone, least of all initially. We simply can't have a site where people burst in with different opinions of... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How do we handle overlap? Migrating questions between sites never worked well in practice. We have a lot of experience about this from SE's various experiments: there was rarely ever a successfully migrated post but countless fiascos. The OP got confused, the users of the target site got annoyed, moderators got pointless busy... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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