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We have an "incubator" to develop proposals for new communities for our network. A couple proposals look to be ready to advance, and we want to make sure that everyone who's interested has a chanc...
I just spent over half an hour writing a detailed answer to a question in Software Development, only to find the question got deleted when I tried to post the answer. This questions was about conv...
Following up on the Suggestions for the user profile right pane, you could cut a line from "Received votes / (up minus down)" by calling it "Net votes received" instead. It's not a big impact eith...
Over the last couple years or so, I've occasionally come back to a question where I posted an answer, and the system popped me into the post editor as if I had unsaved changes. This is now happeni...
When there are too few or too many characters in a comment "Your message" field, the character count turns red to indicate this, and the box border turns from black to red. This is what it looks li...
When I upload a new avatar: #!/usr/bin/env pwsh Start-Process 'https://powerusers.codidact.com/users/edit/profile#user_avatar:~:text=user%20avatar-,Avatar,-An%20optional%20profile' #!/...
A caption can make a table more accessible. According to MDN Table Accessibility: By supplying a element whose value clearly and concisely describes the table's purpose, it helps the people dec...
Since joining I've received eight and two halves (!) copies of the pair of Participate Ability notifications. I don't see why I'm getting spammed? My first thought was that it's per-community, but...
When featuring links on the sidebar, moderators have the option of setting a start and end date for when that link will be featured. This works properly; once the stated date is past, that link wil...
Very minor bug in case it's worth fixing at the same time as any other change to the keyboard shortcuts: The keyboard shortcuts help box has one space less of indentation for t than for all the ot...
The title for a page (that appears in the browser tab) shows the community name (such as "Codidact Meta"), followed by the question title for a question page. This can be helpful for a user who has...
At the bottom of the Activity tab of my user profile page, there are buttons to move through the pagination of the results. There is a “Previous” button, several specific page number buttons, then ...
When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: However, before the code is entered, a green banner at the top of ...
I have a few suggestions of how the pane on the right hand side of the user Profile page might be improved. I'd like your thoughts on which changes would be useful. Wording changes The 2 images b...
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...
Under the Meta question Category activity notification indicators with a default filter I posted a comment in a thread that already had 5 comments (the most that show without viewing the thread in ...
If I have a default filter set for a category, only a subset of posts will show up when I view that category. Other posts are not shown. If a post I will not see has activity, the new activity indi...
If a user creates a question as a place to later edit in spam links, but in the meantime the question receives 1 or more well received answers, what can we do to avoid losing those answers? Should ...
The outcomes of suggested edits are listed in the "Edits" tab of a category. For example, the decided suggested edits for this category. This shows who suggested an edit and who decided to approve ...
In a post, a horizontal rule can be added by using either Markdown or HTML. Markdown horizontal rule The raw text: --- is rendered as: in the saved post. HTML horizontal rule The raw tex...
After signing in, the page displayed is the page most recently interacted with (including in other tabs), rather than the page most recently displayed in the current tab. This means that after inte...
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 ...
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...
