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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Discussions and feedback about the site itself in Q&A format.

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The size of the code format window is much too small.

When posting a lot of code on the site, the "code format window" is much too small: 1 I'm talking about this thing 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The scroll bar appears after...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Code block in comments is highlighted only when viewed in the thread's link

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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"Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly

I recently suggested an edit to an answer. Basically, I formatted some code, adding code fences around it: But at the "Review suggested edit" page, the differences are not clearly displayed. I...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Asking and answering FAQ style questions

After spending my time on SO, I found that some of the FAQ style questions were VERY helpful, especially with things such as SQL injection in PHP/MySQL (for example How can I prevent SQL injection ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Can O' Spam‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Dealing with table tag

This question which is tagged with table tag. I am trying to find a better replacement for it since there are multiple types of tables such as HTML tables or data tables. The question seems to re...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Renaming GNU/Linux tag to gnu

I have noticed that we have several questions tagged with GNU/Linux. I would like to rename this tag to gnu to reflect what seems to be the canonical name and also be consistent with tag naming (a...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Reaction comment doesn't appear if previous comment for retracted reaction was deleted

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 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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The tag [caching] exists twice, shoud we blame caching?

Browsing through the list of tags I saw two with the exact same name, [caching]: One is in https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags/4128 and the other in https://software.codidact.co...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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How do I search for "i++"?

I once wrote this post here: Why can't we mix increment operators like i++ with other operators? When using Codidact search looking for that post, I tried to type i++ in the search but it didn't l...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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"Software Development" to the exclusion of other programming and scripting?

The site is called "Software Development", and the subtitle on the homepage is "General Q&A about software development -- code, design, process, tools, testing, and more". Am I to understand, t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Software recommendations category

Hello all, I was taking a look at proposed communities and saw the discussion about code reviews that lead to the creation of the category. In the process I remembered of Software Recommendations ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by nelson777‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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What is a minimal, reproducible example?

Sometimes when I ask questions here, I get told that I should include a minimal, reproducible example. What is that?

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by klutt‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by klutt‭

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Allow question and answers textareas to be resizable

Many questions and answers on Software might involve a lot of code that typically require more width and/or height to be displayed in a way that is easy to read. Why simply not enforce resize: non...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Suggestions for improving the UI regarding comments

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by klutt‭

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A cleanup of "What type of questions can I ask here?"

What type of questions can I ask here? has gotten rather cluttered since we have added/removed a lot of things along the way. In particular, I think it is hard to get an idea of what's on-topic by ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by klutt‭

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Should we allow questions about software quality assurance?

I would like to ask a question about the pros/cons of using a library or more generally a way of assertion of complex data models. This is more related to testing than it is to actual coding, but ...

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

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Should we allow UI/UX questions in our community?

A significant fraction of software developers also needs to make some UI/UX-related decisions. I am wondering if we should such questions in the Software Development community. Based on feedback...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Promoting the advantages Codidact Software has over Stack Overflow or similar communities

Note: some of these points are relevant for all communities, but I would like to focus on Software Development for now I am thinking of promoting Software Codidact, but I could not find a single p...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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How to best ask about algorithmic problems

The question How to efficiently remove every occurrence of one string inside another and discussions in the comments there got me thinking about the best way to ask about algorithmic problems. In p...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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How to promote Software Development Codidact on LinkedIn?

I have recently blown off the dust off my LinkedIn profile and I have realized that I have hundreds of connections. An important fraction of all these connections are into software development and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Question templates for guidance

I am wondering if it makes sense to define a template for questions. This would act as a guideline rather than a strict template to be followed. I have seen this being used for GitHub issues and I...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Enable text-area for comments to be resized

I was wondering if the comment box can be altered? So the text-area can be expanded/re-sized? It's quite frustrating to get to the right text scrolling in such small box whilst it's not interactiv...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by gzi98‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?

There is a new page What type of questions can I ask here? (found under Help -> Guidance.) I'll quote it as whole below, for convenience. Please give feedback on specific items in the list that ...

15 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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How can I fill in tag information?

I have noticed that most tags lack any usage information and moreover a more detailed wiki: I would like to add the information for some of these tags, but I do not see how. I assume there is so...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Code Challenges Category (Code Golfing & others)

I was inspired by the contests on Outdoors and Writing, and thought that having some challenges over here would be fun as well. What do you all think about adding a new category where people can po...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Specify framework / library version in the answer

As Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow mostly) is struggling to deal with outdated answers, they came with a proposal that we can learn from: Version labels for answers As already most of the feedback...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Codidactyl game and code - creation process and obfuscation

I am interested in knowing how the recent Codidactyl game and its code were created and obfuscated. See the non-announcement. From other posts, it appears that luap42 and Monica Cellio may have wo...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Should we allow questions about installation and configuration of software development tools?

A recent flag for this question suggested that it would be a better fit for the Linux community. There is no motivation provided, but I guess it is related to the fact that most of the question and...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Are general questions (hopefully resulting in comprehensive, 'canonical' answers) in scope

Co I'm a database/desktop dev venturing into programming web apps using Angular and I've been informed 'functional reactive programming' is something I should be aware of. Some other site has a ge...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcalex‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Why did my question get a downvote?

Currently, there is no consensus about whether to provide tooltips for the voting buttons (especially the downvote one). However, the community now includes quite a lot of questions that attracted ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by meriton‭

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Is this a good fit for Code Reviews, and if so, how to best post it?

I've just dived into pygame and written a little game in it, of which I'd like a review (it's my first try of pygame). However I'm not sure if it is a good fit for the site, and if so, how exactly ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Enable syntax highlighting for D language

According to this answer, Codidact uses highlight.js for syntax highlight, and "support whatever languages are enabled by default in that package". And according to this table (in highlight.js Git...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Anonymous‭

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console.readline tag does not look good to me

The console.readline tag has been created for Q: How to read lines into an array in Bash, which uses a while read loop. That tag is inappropriate because Readline, the console and the read built-...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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We'd like to add another moderator -- who?

Several months ago we asked for temporary moderators for this community and two people stepped up. One of them later had to step back, leaving Alexei as a sole moderator. Alexei is doing a great ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Sorting answers by score appears to be broken

https://software.codidact.com/posts/277536/278390?sort=score At the point when I'm posting, the answer by Lundin has +14 score and the answer by dmckee‭ has +11 score. Neither has any down votes. ...

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

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An edit creates a new tag instead of adding correct one

History of edits to the Q shows that status-bydesign tag was added but instead a new status-by-design tag is created.

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  edited 2y ago by luap42‭

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Add syntax highlighting for Cypher

There have now been two questions about Cypher, the Neo4j query language. Highlight.js doesn't support Cypher syntax highlighting out of the box, but they do offer a drop-in highlightjs-cypher modu...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 2y ago by sau226‭

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edit button isn't taking me to `/edit/` page

Whenever I click on edit button it is redirecting me to that answer. This is happening for the answer. Here's a video

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Allow filtering search for only Meta (or any other category)

When I open the search, I can only search across all categories of this site. I'd like to filter down the search results to only Meta (or Code review).

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Someone‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Autocompleting usernames in comments does not seem to work

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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How much research effort is expected from the asker by the community?

Simply, there are search engines which you can find answers to your questions. Although there is Stack Overflow which answers many questions. Additionally that there is documentation and there are ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by meriton‭

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Unfair accusation in a comment and consequent loss of *actual* reputation

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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Using Software Codidact as a private community within a company

Short version As you probably know SO offers Stack Overflow for Teams as a product for a knowledge management tool for private use (private teams). I am wondering if it is possible for Codidact t...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Is it correct to downvote answers to bad questions?

Sometimes I see bad questions (e.g Off-Topic questions) but I see perfect high quality answers to it but since the question is Off-Topic, so I think that who answered the question is being a victim...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Should "Hello", "Thank you", "Morning" and similar greetings be removed from posts?

I just started to see greetings in posts like: "Hello", "Thank you", "Morning" and other types of greetings. Should this greetings be removed from posts or we just keep them? Sometimes I think th...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by dmckee‭

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Error 500 in one specific post (the rest of the site is fine)

I've got a HTTP Error 500 when trying to access this post. Here's the quote error ID's: ef4f6ec1-8d0f-4be3-9553-36e01b5f01c4 and bbeb9bf9-2c58-43b1-be05-c9e914bb80bf. I've browsed to another pos...

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

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Sometimes entered tag information seems to get lost

From time to time, I am filling in some information for the Software Codidact tags and I realized that for some tags I filled the information twice. An example would be winforms which I almost cer...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Is it correct to ask customer service-related questions?

I didn't find any guidance on On-Topic - Help Center about customer service-related questions. So, I am asking: Is it correct to ask customer service-related questions? Example of customer service...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Renaming a tag to an existing one fails silently

If I try to rename a tag to an existing one it silently fails. Example: trying to rename data-archiving to archiving fails with console error only: application-f4dc10c11dc65439a992f7c98cb554bfbc...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Drupal tag is not in lowercase

The Drupal tag is not in lowercase, as all other tags are. Is this intended?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Vinicius Brasil‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭