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Code blocks inside comments are hightlighted only if I'm on the comment's thread page. If I view it on the post itself (after expanding the respective thread), it's not highlighted. Example: in ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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On this answer I just reacted with “works for me” with comment, but then retracted it because of what finally turned out to be a mistake on my end, and deleted also the comment (and thus the commen...

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

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See this picture How do you answer in that thread? Hmm, there are two buttons. One says "show more". I click on that and the thread collapse. Is that "more"? Ok, so I click on the thread agai...

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It seems like autocompleting usernames does not work. I wanted to answer a comment and started typing @ followed by the first letter in the username, but no suggestion appeared. I tried pressing ta...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by klutt‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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I posted an answer here and IIRC received one or two upvotes. Then a user falsely accused me of copy-pasting from Wikipedia without citing my sources. To that accusation I replied here. However...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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This question featured a quite heated discussion in the comments which led to some of them being removed. This action was discussed here and I have realized that our community lacks a guide about p...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Estela‭

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The question https://software.codidact.com/posts/281517 is currently voted at -3. I wrote several comments to explain why, so the author can hopefully ask better questions in the future. This morn...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by meriton‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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I Just tried to post a comment to this answer: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281493#answer-281493 But it didn't work. I could click "Post" but no comment appeared. I tried different senten...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Silicomancer‭

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In this post, @r~~ mentioned me in comment but, I didn't get any notification. This may be a bug. Or, he didn't mention properly cause, he put a comma beside my name without space. I don't know wha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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I tried to reply comment but no autocomplete, so if I want to reply, how to notice a user?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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I've tried to post a comment in this question, and when I clicked in "Post" button, I've got this error message: 500 Internal Server Error If you are the administrator of this website, then ple...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭