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| Comment | Post #282459 |
As I read this, I start to wonder who "owns" a comment thread? The person who started it? What about deleting the whole thread? Sometimes you make a comment, then realize that you were wrong, or alternatively the post which the comment was about got changed so the comment got outdated. The same goes ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
Overall, the more I use this new system, the more I dislike it. I can't help but feel that the separate comment page is just bad UI design. This alone causes the new comment system to be far inferior to the simplistic one we had previously. I understand the rationale why you want there to be a separa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282492 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! status-completed a different way: thread page now has expanders for the post and, if it's an answer, also the question. This provides the missing context without having to go through the extra hassle described here. Bug/feature request. When you click on a notification about someone respon... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282367 |
Fairly trustworthy source regarding the origin of the Linux penguin, Tux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)#Origins (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282346 |
I dont think making the UI more cumbersome and unintuitive is the solution to that problem. Moderators, scripts and good flag systems, rather. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282336 |
These seem like good candidates for different _categories_. That is, different kinds of questions that may have different rules for posting and get moderated differently. SE doesn't have categories so they might have no other option but to use separate sites. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282346 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Threaded comments are here! Great feature, I've been looking forward to this! Some thoughts: - Expand/collapse with a little + or arrow etc to the left of the comment is probably a more intuitive GUI to most users (?). - You could probably have comments expanded by default if they were in a more compact format. I think... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282321 |
I suspect someone with the relevant expertise would rather make distinctions between different fields: cardiology, neurology and so on. And surgeons are specialized in certain areas. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
@celtschk My point is that the answer tags might _encourage_ people to write off-topic answers. "Btw this is how you do it in C++17" kind of answers. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
@celtschk But they could post a C++98 answer to a question tagged C++ and C++17. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
It might be of interest to us to peek at SO's ["Outdated Answers project"](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-outdated-answers-project) and see how that experiment turns out. Not quite sure what happened to it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282291 |
@Monica Cellio That's a rather different scenario. I remember some other meta discussion about some way to mark posts as outdated, dangerous etc [here](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277957). Though in general, everything that is software quickly decays and turns outdated, it is kind of specific to... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282291 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we be able to tag answers? It sounds like a feature of very limited use. I agree that it would be neat for Code Golf, where different answers are per definition of "different kinds". I don't really see any use for it on any other of the existing sites though. Regarding the specific example of C++ on Software Development... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
It would seem that games and game development are quite different topics, possibly with different posting rules. These could be two different categories on the site. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282195 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted I really don't like the change to tags. "...without necessarily being in your face" They need to be in one's face! The way these kind of Q&A sites are designed, tags are super important. They need to work as a head's up of what the post is about and what knowledge that might be required in order... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282086 |
@Monica Cellio That sounds like a good idea, assuming I'm correctly visualizing what you are saying :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282086 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282086 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Tag wiki too prominent when sorting posts by tag When sorting posts by tag, the tag usage part pops up as expected, but also the whole tag wiki. So when you actually start writing a proper tag wiki for a tag, anyone who wants to see posts under that tag has to scroll past the tag wiki each time. The wiki could get quite long. Example here: https... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282003 |
Post edited: Typos |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281986 |
Anyway, sensible categories on the EE site would rather be "Power", "Analog", "RF", "Electromechanical", "Interface", "Firmware" or similar broad terms. I don't really see a need to add more categories there currently. And for now categories are used there for separate types of questions, not for sep... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281986 |
All electronics aspects of batteries sort under power management. If you want to design a battery charger, then power management is the headline to look for at the silicon vendor site, unless they have a separate charger category. Low voltage in this context means <75VDC so that goes for the vast maj... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281986 |
@celtschk Batteries aren't really a sub-category of electrical engineering. That would be far too narrow - batteries would be a sub-category of power management, which is a sub-category of low voltage power electronics, which is a sub-category of power electronics... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282003 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Battery Science & Engineering Almost every single electronics development project is multi-disciplinary. I'm a software engineer but I rarely ever do any project which doesn't involve electronics- or mechanical engineers/engineering. Including several projects revolving around batteries, battery chargers, batteries in EX envi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281990 |
I agree, I don't see how battery questions would be off-topic on the EE site even if they are about the underlying chemistry. If there's enough people who can answer such questions in detail, well that's another story. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281983 |
I'd assume that the most common place to share Codidact links would be on Codidact. So it would be nice if the site allowed for a way that's compatible with itself... That ought to be way more important than supporting some format for social media platforms. Now on Someplace Else when you paste a lin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281982 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Improving the "copy link" button I'd like to have the "copy link" button below questions improved so that it gives something more useful. Currently when clicking on it, you just get a raw URL like: https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456 That's not really meaningful, I could as well just copy the URL from my browser. So... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281873 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Add an option to retract a flag before it's handled I agree, we know from experience that this is useful. "Someplace Else" got this feature and I've used it now and then. Often when you get some "wait a minute..." moment, realizing that you have misinterpreted something. Or when an OP changes the question with clarifications so that it makes better se... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281818 |
Post edited: |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281818 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How's the interest for a Worldbuilding site? Our existing Scientific Speculation mostly covers what would be on-topic at Worldbuilding stack exchange etc. The site can also do with more attention. So rather than to launch a new community, I would strongly recommend to go over to that site's meta and raise discussion there. If you can find a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281796 |
Every time this has happened, it's been announced as featured posts across the whole network, visible from every Codidact site. Why wouldn't that be enough? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281781 |
@Mithrandir24601 It's pretty much only useful when someone makes a proposal of something new. It's counter-productive when someone just wants to discuss something and toss around ideas. And it doesn't make the slightest sense for things like bug reports, support requests etc. What does voting even m... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281781 |
I'd also question the relevance of rep on meta. From experience of SO, my highest voted posts _by far_ are those containing complaints about something. This after posting some hundreds of diverse posts, feature suggestions, moderation/tag clean-up stuff, misc discussions, helping newbies etc. It's al... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281651 |
I remember this edit, it was me removing myself from the list of users who declared interest in the site proposal. Alexei had listed my name and I removed it, that was the only edit I did. It was _not_ a tag edit. This post was an answer btw so it doesn't even have tags. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281646 |
I think I've reported this very bug before too. Btw referring to users with @username in questions doesn't notify them. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281648 |
I think your arguments here are regarding implementation details. How many and who gets access to the feedback channel isn't all that important, by all means give all trusted users access to it. What's important is that the poster only gets feedback from people actually willing to give it, in a patie... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281615 |
And no matter the arguments, the disadvantages overrule any advantages bumping might give when there is low participation. Bumping only makes the lack of new content situation worse. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281615 |
@Nick Alexeev I don't really buy that argument when there's a edit review system in place. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281615 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? I agree, this is a problem when the site activity is low. For example I wrote a very long answer at Software Dev the other week, then re-visited it later and corrected some typos etc. Then someone else found a typo too and edited it again. This could easily be mistaken for purposely "bumping" the pos... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281577 |
I just got the blue circle when I clicked "mark all as read". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281592 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |