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For someone coming from Stack Exchange (SE), what are the equivalent Codidact communities? For example, I'm interested in: Stack Overflow (coding problems) Unix & Linux (using *Nix tools a...
I have a question that blends topics of more than one community. the question could be separated into multiples and asked individually to each corresponding community thereby piecemealing an overal...
I'd like to put a badge on my website showing details of my account and link Codidact. This is the thing to be displayed, but with my account details: Is there an URL I can embed in an iframe?...
I'm used to pressing Enter in the edit summary box to submit an edit, as it works on Wikipedia and Stack Exchange, however, here, when I edit a post, pressing Enter in the Edit Comment box doesn't ...
I just went to sign in but the "Sign in" button didn't do anything. There was no error or nothing. Then I realized I put my username instead of my email address. Once I put in my email, it worked. ...
80 characters is a standard width in programming, so lots of code is written to that size, e.g. Python and Shell according to Google's style guides. However, Codidact code blocks are only about 72...
I made an edit to a post to fix a problem with the raw Markdown. This was a change that has no effect on the rendered post (as expected, because the raw Markdown removed is an empty link syntax [](...
When a comment thread has all of its comments deleted, the system automatically also deletes the thread, so that there is not an empty thread left over. However, if the thread has been renamed, the...
In this post history, a very long link greatly overflows the width of the diff box. You can see there is a tail peeking out from the right side, and a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the p...
FR: Remove the timer before saving a post when an image in a post has no alt text. Currently, when one saves a post that has an image with no alt text, one gets this message: It looks like yo...
When I try to go to https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/, I get a certificate warning. Looking at the certificate details, it turns out that the server is actually providing a certificate ...
When uploading an image on a Codidact community, users are prompted to add alt text - a text alternative to an image - for that image. If they go to submit a post without doing so, or when submitti...
I've been thinking about part of our top bar recently, specifically the link to your profile. We got some helpful feedback on a community Meta about the way some top-bar elements behave and also t...
I received a mod warning on https://powerusers.codidact.com/warning and I am now confused about some rules on Codidact. In this meta question, I'll focus on the rules around crossposting, e.g. post...
I can't start comment thread on Codidact Power Users (but can on the other sites): No error message. I guess this is due to some mod revoking my "Participate Everywhere ability" 12 days ago but ...
A new paragraph was added at the end of a post, as can be seen in its edit history. In this case it happened to be a footnote, but that is not relevant here. The diff[1] shows the new paragraph at ...
What The Problem Is linux.codidact.com/posts/294865/history#3 renders the relevant revision, expanded. by contrast, when a fragment directive is appended, like linux.codidact.com/posts/294865/hist...
The keyboard shortcut j should navigate to the next post (down). Instead it navigates to the previous post (up). The keyboard shortcut k should navigate to the previous post (up). Instead it navig...
UI Bug: The border of the post title input box is red even when the title is under 151 characters when pasting the title. Animated screen recording
Currently, acting on a notification's item closes the notification menu, which makes it impossible to open all notifications in new tabs without having to reopen the notification menu. The only wa...
As we get more communities, the "Show Communities" drop down (the little down arrow in a box near the top right of the page) will become more difficult to find a specific community in: Would...
One backspace sometimes remove all tags Tested on Brave/Chrome on Windows 11 24H2 Pro.
Currently, Codidact does not provide any data dump. This is a major issue because the site could disappear overnight without leaving a trace, or some moderator might decide to suddenly disagree wit...
"Draft loaded. You had edited this before but haven't saved it. We loaded the edits for you." has a bunch of related posts linked in its first comment thread, but the posts don't appear in the side...
I get "Draft loaded. You had edited this before but haven't saved it. We loaded the edits for you. " when I ask a new question. First thought was I hadn't pressed the "Save Post" button, but then...
It happens to me all the time that I write a comment - as the first of a new thread of comments - and then either overlook giving it a title, or expect that the default title will be good enough an...
I see that th 2 "Hot posts" on https://powerusers.codidact.com are month-old:: How does Google's Android developer registration affect sideloading and other stores? Linux / Android XMPP commu...
This post focuses on the work we've done over the past couple of months to make commenting experience on the network better for everyone. I tried to outline as many changes as I could here, but do ...
This site runs on the QPixel software, maintained by Codidact. What progress has been made recently? There will be one answer per year. This changelog does not include all bug fixes, but we aim...
If a suggested edit is made on a question that has been deleted, the suggested edit is created successfully but does not show in the suggested edits list, even to users with the Curate ability (who...
When I tag @#-1 in a comment, it does not render as a tag: [1] ...yet is proposed to me in the standard context menu that any alternative user's identifier would be: comments/thread/111...
If I sort the question list by "Score" and then apply a filter, the sort order returns to the default "Activity". Could this be made to maintain the chosen sort order?
When I go to "codidact.com" there is no "Sign In" field, I have to choose some community to sign in, to all the communities. I guess this is just a neglected feature not implemented yet.
I just now experienced difficulties reaching this site. The browser did not finish getting reply. As usual, I had opened "Dashboard" and clicked on the communities that are interesting to me (nea...
I posted this comment yesterday and it currently shows as "posted less than a minute ago". In the Activity section of my user page it shows as "about 18 hours ago". I have refreshed the page and ...
Currently, when viewing a post, Codidact will show you the raw votes on a post, with the breakdown into upvotes and downvotes: There's been some feedback that this is a bit too much to show, espec...
It wouldn't be hard to link a user's current post and/or flag list from the relevant Abilities (with threshold) pages. Let's do that. So from https://meta.codidact.com/abilities/flag_close?thresho...
Sometimes I'm looking for tutorials or readings. There are a lot of tutorials and readings on the net, and that is part of the problem, as most don't match what I was looking for. On "Some other ...
I conceived of this originally for Software, but I think the entire network would benefit. I've seen several communities point out in their meta that "easy", or rather fundamental questions are int...
Feature request: When a text is selected, clicking on quote should quote the entire text, not just add a single > at the beginning of the selected text.
When I accessed powerusers.codidact.com/posts/293590's /edit for its /history#1, I saw: However, outside it, I do not: Does this reproduce for anyone else? If so, is this expected?
There are, unfortunately, a few users on Codidact who relatively consistently make low-quality contributions. These posts often come in bursts and tend to be downvoted fairly quickly, but that does...
My Rationale When I posted comments/thread/11196#comment-27732, I wanted to link to a rendered version of the revision, in order to demonstrate the new version of the post. Certainly, I could jus...
After reading [How] can a user be muted? If not, why not? it occurred to me that part of the problem might be resolved by limiting the rate at which a consistently downvoted user can post. For exa...
When I attempt to give back to this community, in the Power Users forum, I find that a specific user is doing their best to absolutely spam it with really low-effort posts. They're not so absurdly ...
As pointed out in a comment on a post about comment flagging, currently comment flags only allow entering a free text message, not selecting an option such as spam or abusive. Please could we have...
FR: Add an "edit comment" button without having to view the whole comment thread. E.g., in: I'd like to have an "edit comment" button without having to view the whole comment thread.
When looking at a pending edit on the suggested edits page, only the markdown shows. There is no preview of how this will be rendered. This presents two problems: Any subtle error introduced by...
Short question: how to accept an answer? There is no "Accept" button, so I have chosen "Works for me". Is this the intended way? (And it looks like I accidentally edited my previous question, ho...
At comments/thread/11188#comment-27766, I modified the title of a thread. (Specifically, I replaced its title case title with a standard eng sentence, because I've since ascertained that these are ...
