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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 ...
Location Go to this link or any of the links mentioned under the "Communities" subheading below. You will see two paragraphs under their respective subheadings. Under "How do I earn this ability...
A comment thread displayed inline below a post usually only shows a maximum of 5 comments. Further comments can be seen by pressing "show thread" to see the whole thread in its own page. I added a...
When adding a link via the Link dialog, I would expect that pressing Enter closes the dialog and inserts the link over the selection. Instead, it submits the whole post without the link.
If I search for a question, by specifying "post_type:1" in the search, I can filter the results to include or exclude any tags I choose. However, if I search for an answer, by specifying "post_typ...
Every now and then I get a broken image in the sidebar on the Power User site: After a reload it's usually gone completely (not replaced with any other visible content). I don't think I encounte...
Currently, when editing a post the system will automatically save a draft for you after a short period of inactivity. This draft will then be loaded again if you leave the page and return, even if ...
If I want to discard a draft question/edit and start anew, I have to click Cancel then find my way back to the ask/edit page, or navigate back and refresh. I'd like to have a Discard draft button t...
I can’t seem to join Codidact chat. When I try to accept the chat invite I get the following error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.
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 ...
If I see formatting in a Codidact post that I don't know how to recreate, I press "Suggest Edit" below the post so I can look at the raw text. Once I've learned what I need to know, I cancel the ed...
Replying to a comment thread can become impossible in its own page (rather than inline under a post) if it is expanded a second time in the same page. To reproduce: Go to the thread page of a c...
FR: Could Codidact provide a data dump (e.g., an archive with all QA, comments, etc.)? Could be hosted on https://archive.org/ if need to save money.
SE and Kiwix teamed up to create this: https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=stack_exchange Since Codidact is open source though, does that also mean it releases questions and answers a...
It would be cool if we could use logical operators such as OR or AND when more than one keyword is possible. For example offline OR download (because if you download something, then it is offline.
I was wondering where presence (or absence) of "Hot Network Questions" analogue for Codidact is discussed, but was surprised by the seeming lack of the discussion on meta.codidact.com when searchin...
I was looking at an answer to a question on Proposals, How does half a dozen remain? Initially the answer looked like this: I clicked on the first comment thread link to expand it, and inste...
The Posts page for my user on Code Golf Codidact shows one of the posts more than once. It appears on page 5 and also on page 6. It is called "Awkward Ordinals" and is a question in the Challenges ...
After posting several puzzles on Puzzling Stack Exchange they began to introduce intrusive and frequent pop up ads. It was so annoying that I left. Now on Codidact, I am beginning to experience a...
Vote history on deleted answers is still visible on a user's Vote Summary page. I'm not sure whether this is good behavior or not. It doesn't give anything away about the content of the answer. Th...
Standard markdown does not include spoiler sections (hidden until clicked on). Personally, on those rare occasions when I find need to temporarily hide something, I'm happy using <details> HT...
Below each post, at the top of the comment section, is a link to "follow new". The title text displayed when hovering over this link says "Follow all new comment threads on this post". It is clear...
The buttons "Sign Up", "Sign In" and "Sign Out" show a hand as the mouse cursor when hovering over them, indicating that they can be clicked and will navigate to another page. However, the area sur...
Sometimes the number of votes on a post does not match the Vote Summary page on the user page. For example, at the time of writing the post Lone ones has 3 upvotes and 0 downvotes, but the Vo...
When looking at the list of Q&A questions on any site, there's something below each like this: 3 answers · posted 2d ago by John Doe · last activity 9m ago by Lundin Where you get a cli...
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...
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' #!/...
The "Notifications" panel, which can be opened using the envelope icon near the top right of the window to the left of the user avatar, shows the time of posting of each message in human readable f...
Proposal: Do not linkify deleted user. Details: Currently, occurrences of deleted user are automatically rendered as profile links in post listings and post metadata. However, when a user accoun...
What we have now (left to right) The site logo. Clicking on it goes to the domain root (e.g. https://meta.codidact.com). A "Users" button, which routes directly to the /users page. (Stack...
I'm getting occasional failure to load random logos on the Dashboard page. It's different logos different times. This last occurrence on Meta's dashboard (so base URL is meta.codidact.com), I pull...
I added a comment to a question, then realized I made a minor typo in the comment title (left of "s" at end of word). So I changed the title. However, a second comment appeared pointing out the v...
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...
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...
