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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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Who should the moderators be?

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...

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

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Site scope - draft proposal [duplicate]

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 ...

6 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  closed as duplicate 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Are questions about web browsers on topic on Software Applications?

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 ...

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

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Give actionable feedback when closing questions

Having had the dubious honor of experiencing the closing process from the perspective of a question author, it seems to me that closing does not adequately communicate why the question was closed, ...

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

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Long code lines are not wrapped

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.

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

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Strategy to migrate meaningful content from Stack Overflow

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Getting rid of "company tags" early on

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...

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

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Meaning of the tag software practices?

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...

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

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How does the community feel about resource requests?

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...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by QuietEnigma‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Asking software architecture related questions on Software Development community

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by shagie‭

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Initial List of Tags

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...

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

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Can regular users add tag wikis? And what are the guidelines for creating them?

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...

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

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Importing Selected Q&A?

I personally have several (10s) of Q&A where I posted the question and\or answer, on related SE sites. These Q&A are ones I go back to for reference for myself and others. I know and under...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meet the Codidact Team!

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...

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

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Welcome to Software Development!

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭