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Sometimes when I ask questions here, I get told that I should include a minimal, reproducible example. What is that?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
This scenario is not yet a problem for this site, but we will get there, since it's a huge problem for Stack Overflow: Someone just picks up a well-known programming language for the first time. T...
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 ...
I have noticed that virtually any question containing an image of some code or error got a comment asking to replace it with the actual code, error text. Why is it so bad to include an image inste...
As Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow mostly) is struggling to deal with outdated answers, they came with a proposal that we can learn from: Version labels for answers As already most of the feedback...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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-...
History of edits to the Q shows that status-bydesign tag was added but instead a new status-by-design tag is created.
I've seen that recently two requests to add syntax highlight to some languages were deferred (this and this). According to the status-deferred tag description: "the requested feature will not be i...
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. ...
Whenever I click on edit button it is redirecting me to that answer. This is happening for the answer. Here's a video
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...
My favourite tags is empty. Although, some tags are highlighting. Usually, I was using another account earlier. I forgot (lost that gmail address) password (I can reset but, I don't want to use tha...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Drupal tag is not in lowercase, as all other tags are. Is this intended?
In this answer, I wrote those line using code system (```). But, in first line it bold sudo. But, in second line it didn't. Why one is highlighting another isn't? I am using Chrome. A relate...
The help center includes a rather generic (it's the same for all communities) article about voting. Recently a user flagged a question asking why it had received so many downvotes. While flagging ...
Power Users has just been launched and I remember that Software Development has some content related to office suite usage (example). Is it OK to migrate these questions to the Power Users communi...
In SO, I had saw that a person was writing lot of abusive words inside code. Just like, if(a==b){ print("f***") } I had flagged on that post with little bit explanation. The user gave ...
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 ...
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...
When posting this question, I noticed a difference between editor's preview and the post's final render. When editing, the preview correctly shows the Zalgo Text: But after the post is saved, i...
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...
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...
I edited the tags of my very first Codidact question: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281486 Someone proposed the "python" tag. Since I am working with C++, I removed the "multithreading" tag...
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...
I was reading the post. It said that we can react in post answer. I had answered on my question. But, I didn't get anyway to react on my answer. Why? In this post "reaction" had been suggested. I d...
I just noticed that I'm not getting code formatting in the preview window when I write an answer or make an edit. This is very useful to have. Not sure if it's a bug so I'm posting this as a featu...
I have a post where I mention a script named dead.sh Ok... now I have two posts like that. But that is not a website. It is a filename, and not one reachable through an URL. How can I inhibit aut...
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...
You should know I am not a bot by now ;-)
After I wrote this answer, I could notice that, when there's inline code in the last line of a paragraph, sometimes the border-bottom of the inline code text is not displayed. One case is when the...
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