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As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Usually some people stand out from the proposal process and early activity. Ultimately, of c...
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...
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I have recently posted this question on Web Application SE and I am wondering if such a question would be on-topic here. The questions deals with understanding a feature of Google Chrome Developer ...
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...
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...
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...
EDIT: This discussion thread is mostly obsolete now that a new draft has been posted on the site. Please take further discussion & proposals to this meta post instead: Community feedback: What ...
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...
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...
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 ...
In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So it appears that we've gotten our first "company tag", Apple. We know from SO that company name tags were always problematic since: Questions are about products, not companies. Given that the pr...
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?...
As we start on building a new community here together, we're bound to find some sticking points. Those might be bugs, new features you need, things you need support with... whatever they are, the C...
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...
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).
(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...
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...
As far as I can tell, there are no tags yet for the main Q&A. I suggest setting an initial group of tags which help organize questions. Two groups I think would be particularly helpful are lang...
After enabling two factor authentication (2FA) for my account I'm only notified It is successfully turned On. I think it should include some recovery codes as well (to be used in case I can't acce...
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...
Welcome to the Codidact site for Software Development! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A fr...
The problem described below occurs in Windows 10 and Chrome 87.0.4280.66 (64 bits, JavaScript enabled). I could post this question only in mobile (Chrome/iOS 14.2), where the problem doesn't occur....
Cross posted to Meta: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278198 If I try to provide a parent to a tag, it crashes with 500. Error Id = 6bd06f30-539d-4b88-8743-eca32a8465cd Tag to edit = htt...
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?
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?
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 ...
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...
I tried to reply comment but no autocomplete, so if I want to reply, how to notice a user?
How does the community feel about resource requests? For example: I have been working on a project recently. By which I mean: mostly stumbling through by trial-and-error. The particular open source...
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...
I was thinking about meaningful content that can be migrated (+ improved) from Stack Overflow. These categories pop into my mind: closed questions: we know Stack Overflow is very picky when it co...
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...
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...
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...
Some new tag "software practices" just popped up, no wiki. What's the purpose of this tag and how is it useful? What exactly in software development is not "software practices"? Seems quite superfl...
This is a small bug (cosmetic) that I have noticed while adding some code in a post: I have artificially added some whitespace here and there, otherwise the line would have been way longer.
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...
Context Over the years I had a hard time addressing questions about software architecture like these ones . Soon after posting them, they receive a couple of downvotes and close votes which set the...
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 ...
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-...
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...
Checking the list of tags, I noticed that all of the tag wikis are empty, like this: I also noticed that I can't edit those info. Will it be possible for regular users to add tag wikis?1 And if th...
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