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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.

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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 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y 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 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y 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 justanotherpilgrim‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Can we migrate office suite related questions to the Power Users community?

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...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭

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Etiquette for posting comments

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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Do we need more specific up/down vote reasons for Software Development community?

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 ...

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

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Code formatting of previews

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...

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

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highlighting code

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...

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

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Is it OK to use abusive content on code?

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 ...

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

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Text with many diacritic marks are not displayed correctly in posts

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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How are we supposed to give feedback for poor questions if such comments are deleted?

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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Editing tags failed?

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...

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

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Comments do not appear

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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I didn't get notification after user mentioning me in comment

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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reaction isn't available

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...

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

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How to inhibit auto link generation?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Estela‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Why do I, a logged in user, have to solve a captcha to post?

You should know I am not a bot by now ;-)

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by meriton‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Border-bottom of inline code is (sometimes) not displayed when it's in the last line of a paragraph

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How will you balance demanding high quality questions with maximising the number of users?

There is a well know trade-off between a site aiming for questions/answers that are of a high quality and useful for people who arrive from Google and a site being nice to new users who often only ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Ringi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Ayxan Haqverdili‭

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Cannot close a question as a duplicate due to "Invalid input for other post" error

Enable text-area for comments to be resized is a duplicate of Can comment input fields be vertically scalable?. I am trying to close it as a duplicate and provide the older question link, but I re...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Posts list shows luap42 instead of actual author

The current two top questions at https://software.codidact.com/ ( https://software.codidact.com/q/279699 and https://software.codidact.com/q/278674) are marked as coming from luap42: However, wh...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Someone‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Do we need the fullstack tag?

Edit: I have removed the tag. Thanks for the feedback. I am inclined to add a "do not use" request in fullstack tag's description because it is quite vague. What do you think about it?

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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I subscribed every 7 day but I got email every day

I created subscription to new questions that should emailed every 7 days but I receieved every day. here is my setting: here is my mail inbox: and unfortunately, I got emails with same quest...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Yaskur‭

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how to mention user in comment?

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

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Are Linux-related questions on-topic?

I'm trying to learn Linux, and I've got plenty of questions to ask on the subject, especially when it comes to differences between Linux's command line and Apple's. Would such questions be accepted...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by klutt‭

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Error 500 when trying to comment

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 4y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Phantom answer in my notification list

My notification list includes the following entry: New answer to your question 'How many votes are required for special actions...' However, there is no answer for that question. I imagine that ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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I answered a question that was deleted, then undeleted, and my answer disappeared

Yesterday I answered this question. This morning, when I visited site, the question has disappeared, so my guess is that it was deleted. But now I saw that it was undeleted (I initially thought t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Add link dialog should capture enter

I think we have a UI problem with the "add link" dialog box in the editor: it doesn't capture enter keystrokes which then fall through to the submit button. I'm merrily typing a post when I real...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by dmckee‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Multiple code blocks have the code in different colors

On this question https://software.codidact.com/questions/279097 there are two code blocks, but the color of the text is different. I directly copied and pasted the code so I don't see why some o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Do we really need the [tools] tag?

During my review of the posts and tags, I have seen the tools tags. It is very generic and I am sure if it is helpful. What do you think?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

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What is the point of tagging a question with both a parent and a child tag?

On the old sites, if you wanted to tag something with [sql] and [mysql] that required two tags. However, because we have hierarchal tags where [mysql] is a child of [sql] you only need to tag it wi...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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I object to [stl]

Currently the tag [stl] is marked as a sub-tag of c++, implying a meaning of "standard-template-library". However I see both of the questions currently using the tag mean the 3D object description ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dmckee‭  ·  edited 4y ago by dmckee‭

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Growing software.codidact

I've been thinking about how the community might bring more contributors to software.codidact. One of the ways is to simply pitch codidact in questions, answers, and comments in stackoverflow. I'm ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by President James K. Polk‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Is there a way to add expiration for questions tags?

Comments from this question reveal that there is some aggressive caching related to question tags (what tags are used for a question). Unfortunately, after changing tags for several questions I ha...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Are reference requests welcome here?

On that other site that shall not be named, reference request questions are outlawed as "asking for an off-site resource". What do you guys think about such questions? Should they be welcome here?...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by meriton‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dmckee‭

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What is our policy on tags?

I've come to realize that tags began changing pretty rapidly recently. In the past 3 days alone, these happened: [urlrewrite] was changed to a more generic [url-rewriting] tag and the tag wiki for...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Should we get rid of [formula] tag and use more meaningful tags like [excel-formula] or [google-sheets-formula]?

We currently have quite a few questions tagged with formula. However, [formula] seems so general that I am inclined to replace it to a more specific formula based on the context. Examples: [excel-...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Schrödinger's tag - appears in view mode, but not in edit

After removing two tags and adding another one for this question I have noticed that the tag list is not the same between view mode and edit: View mode: stack-memory + heap-memory + ram + memory-m...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Renaming sheets to the more specific google-sheets?

sheets tag sounds a little bit too generic and I feel that it should be replaced with the more specific [google-sheets]. I know that we should avoid using company names as much as possible, but in ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Should we rename urlrewrite tag to url-rewriting?

How do I get IIS UrlRewrite to handle CSS-delivered woff files appropriately? is the only question currently using urlrewrite tag. However, for future questions I would like to have a more general ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Code Reviews: ‘it's fine’

(Elsewhere...) You look over a post on Code Reviews, and you don't find any problems. Should you post an ‘it's fine’ answer, stay silent, or do something else? Seems to me there's some value in hav...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by r~~‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Should we have a Code Review Section / category?

As discussed on Meta, should Software.codidact allow reviewing working code as a question? Traffic is probably not high enough to warrant it's own Codereview community. The existing communities out...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dustytrash‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭