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This comment says I wrote it 4 minutes ago when I wrote it 1-2 days ago. I haven't touched it or edited it. Refreshing the page doesn't help. Other comments also got wrong time stamps, the site jus...
When a user renames their comment thread, the System user adds a comment indicating the change: Thread renamed from "previous title" to "current title" by username When the previous title is ...
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...
A new user who has not yet gained the Participate Everywhere ability is restricted to a certain number of posts per day. Is the value of this daily limit listed publicly? If not, should it be? If...
My comment in this answer should be at least 11 hours ago, as it's the first one in the answer.
A post has a licence, which is the default unless the post author chooses a different one. This makes it clear to anyone reusing the content of the post what their rights and responsibilities are. ...
I tried to edit a post, but I received the following message saying it is over 30,000 characters. I double checked in a text editor that the number of characters is 27,835 (as shown in the Codidact...
As a "new user", I'm able to downvote, but not comment. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I should be able to explain the problem with a post before I'm able to affect another user's score, no?...
I got the following error message about my post being too long while trying to post a code review request. The error message says post bodies have a 30,000 character maximum but the edit counter s...
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...
The diff view of proposed edits is generally good, and useful to have as a default; but sometimes it's not obvious how new Markdown will render. I'd like to know how to check this unobtrusively, i...
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 [](...
The Search button at the top of the page opens a dialog box to enter a search term. There is also a separate Search page that opens in browsers that have JavaScript disabled. Browsers have shortcu...
The user page Profile tab shows some posts from that user, along with a link to view all posts from that user. Could these two places have an option to show posts from that user across all communit...
When saving a question, there must be at least 1 tag. Is this necessary? Should this be adjustable per community? Should tagging be the responsibility of the original author, or the responsibility...
After trying to raise a flag on a post after reaching my daily limit[1], I saw this message: Thank you. Flags from people like you help us keep this site clean. However, you have reached your da...
Whenever viewing a comment thread in a separate window by picking "show thread", the site suddenly think you are logged out and therefore you can't reply to the comment. Basically it is impossible ...
If I try to close a question as a duplicate of a different post type, such as a blog, this correctly fails. However, there is no message indicating the reason for the failure, so someone might not ...
When my avatar cannot be loaded for some reason, there is instead alt text saying "user avatar" so that it's clear what is missing. This works well on Firefox, but on Chromium a missing image icon ...
In August, I'll be attending a conference about microcontrollers and electronics in general. This would be the perfect opportunity to promote the Electrical Engineering site. I'll be talking to m...
In the user page there is a Preferences tab, which includes a checkbox for: Collapse hot posts Collapse the Hot Posts widget in the sidebar by default. However, the Hot Posts widget is expan...
On a certain other Q&A site, users are told to flag spam, but not to downvote it. On that site, downvoting moves a question further down the front page, meaning less people will see it - and he...
In the last few days I've gotten a few notifications. These have been about new comments to one of my posts, or a new comment in a comment thread I participated in. I clicked on the typewriter ri...
I just noticed this in EE, but the same symptom appears on other sites too: Note how the user pictures in the right column are larger than the others. On other sites this is more random, so I t...
On the Activity tab of the user page, there are buttons to show only Posts, only Comments, or only Edits. Each button also shows the number of results of that type: Should the "All events" b...
The Hot Posts box in the right hand panel (or near the bottom of the page on mobile or narrow windows) is collapsible, using the chevron arrow at its top right. However, if I collapse it and then v...
I find it useful to be able to look through my recent comments to find something I recall saying but not where. I can do this on the Activity tab of my user page, by filtering to show comments. How...
Codidact uses CommonMark for Markdown, which has an extension that supports footnotes using the following format: Sentence with a footnote[^1] in it. [^1]: The content of the footnote. This ...
Where would one ask a question about law, of a type that does not relate to any of the communities listed at codidact.com? [1] Context An example is what law.stackexchange.com/q/114531 describes:...
From How to ask a great question: Avoid too much subjectivity Questions like "What's your favorite way to eat an egg?" can't be answered objectively - the answer, naturally, changes depending o...
The Table of Contents under a question displays the initial text of each answer. This is cut off at around 120 characters. On a standard monitor at standard 100% zoom, this takes up around a line a...
When a user adds or removes an up or down vote for one of the answers to a question, the vote counts next to that answer update to reflect the new number of votes. However, the vote counts for that...
On a user's profile, I read the following message: I have suspended my activity on Codidact and left the chat servers because I am no longer comfortable contributing to and in a space with a maj...
Occasionally, a post is a brilliant fit for multiple communities. Questions at Linux and Power Users are the most pertinent example, [1] but the decision to not create one for AOSP is, too. [2] Re...
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?
The Somewhere Else runs ads (and has been for years) and they are generally not click-bait. I wonder if this site could do something like that to be able to hire people to maintain it? There are b...
When the notifications panel is opened, each notification shows an absolute timestamp, such as 2026-05-13 05:54:33 UTC followed by a relative time, such as (6 hours ago). After the notifications pa...
The captions of the questions are too light-blue in the list of the questions, so difficult to read on the white background. Could they be made of slightly darker cue? Maybe, even black?
On mobile, looking at an answer to a challenge I posted on Code Golf Codidact, the page[1] looks up to date, with the challenge correctly showing about 2 months ago, and the answer and the comments...
The feature that causes drafts to be saved automatically should: Save the title and tags. Be activated when I edit a tag or the title. I put the tags for bug and feature request on because...
Some confusion between I and L. I keep forcing myself to recognize that it doesn't say Edlt or Actlvlty on the profile page. Sign Out has the same issue: From a distance, this looks like Slgn. ...
On desktop the search button in the top bar of each page opens a dialog box where a search term can be entered. On mobile (or on a narrow or zoomed desktop window) there is less room in the top bar...
There are buttons to change the sort order in various places: Search results have "Relevance", "Activity", "Age", "Score". Answers to a question have "Score", "Active", "Age". A category's que...
Not because of the AI. We can see on that Big Q&A site what we all know well, their stats started to decrease far before the AI. After playing a lot on various sites, I think I have a mental c...
What is Codidact’s official policy with regard to the following situation: I post a puzzle which I did not design and in the post, I state that I found the puzzle online but I no longer know where...
Working around decreasing documentation / search engine result quality I have found, more and more usually, that Search engines can not find on the spot consummable sources; and LLMs can not a...
I've been thinking about how we handle duplicates, near-duplicates, related questions that aren't really duplicates but might be relevant, and so on. We had a previous discussion about duplicates ...
The following should be hiddenTHIS ISN'T HIDDEN... (this is currently visible from the question list) Information hidden behind a <details> tag in a post is revealed in the plain text previe...
This edit consists mostly of small corrections on punctuation and typos. Currently, the edit diff view highlights the whole paragraph in which a change was made in green/red background, and uses bo...
On your profile the right hand panel (or lower panel on a narrow screen) shows some statistics about your contributions to the community, including questions, answers, voting, and the total number ...
