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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by Lundin‭

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Q&A How can Codidact be independent from Stack Exchange, when you have same moderators?

Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an asset to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dep...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

Does Codidact have any policy against using political content in posts, user names or user profiles? I'm not talking about questions about political content, which should obviously be fine given t...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 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 opi...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How to grow all of our communities?

As most have noticed, there's been a discussion raised on all the community metas about how to grow that particular community. It's a good question and I do believe they should be answered on commu...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A 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 woul...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A The homework dumps are coming - how about a network-wide policy?

I'm starting to see the first signs of the inevitable "homework dumps" on Software Development as the site is gaining traffic a bit. The criteria for a homework dump is roughly: A raw copy/paste...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Can we please get useful source code formatting?

My patience is running thin with code formatting on Codidact. I've made this feature request before on Software Development only (here) but no reply. We currently have 5 communities which definite...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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. Rena...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&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 Q...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Please review a new Accessibility Statement and Accessibility Policy

status-completed Just a minor concern: I don't think a single person should be the point of contact, maybe set up something like access@codidact.org. That is, if it even needs a dedicated mail a...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Codidact marketing for community posts

We currently let users with the Curate ability promote posts across the Codidact network. Should we choose some subset of these for promotion? Well this seems like an extremely hard ability to...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A 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 dif...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Has anyone seen my unicorn?

Has anyone seen my unicorn "Fluffy"? It has green fur and loves apples. It was last seen-... Since a few days back, the user avatar is missing on my profile: And I've seen the same on other u...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

Regarding politics in user profiles: I think the contents of the user profile should be relevant: that is, describe who you are, what you do, what you like etc. If it's relevant that you are for e...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Communities drop-down/switcher upgrades

The communities "drop-down"/"switcher" menu next to the user profile could do with a few tweaks. The communities appearing there are sorted after order of community creation. That is: Writing, Codi...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I agree that automatic deletion1) would be a useful way to reduce clutter and manual moderation. I would propose implementing something along the lines of the draft below. 1) Deleted as in "not di...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Stop inserting space after question titles

This is kind of minor so I haven't bothered reporting it before, but it's been there since day 1: the site is inserting a space character after every question title. Example (from here): Newslette...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A What's more important for codidact - quality or helping questions get answered?

Codidact started as an attempt to make something better/different than SE. When it was started, pretty much everyone involved shared a consensus about what it should not be: Not run by a private...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy on "spam accounts"?

A somewhat well-known phenomenon from SE is "spam accounts" - that is a user profile containing self-promotional material which just sits there - the user isn't making any posts. Supposedly a paras...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Actively investing in non niche network websites

It isn't clear to me exactly why these particular communities would attract more users than others. For example we already have Cooking, which is something that concerns everyone and which lots of...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Reaction system for comments

I don't think many want the site to behave like social media. In particular, we don't need the narcissism of social media - I truly don't care if "Bob likes this" or "Ten people found this funny". ...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only

Quoting parts of questions in answers is a problem because it prevents the legitimacy of a question's OP to try to improve a bad question in case community members think the question is bad by he...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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