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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #293338 |
Thank you for volunteering! We've appointed you as a moderator. Check the Help Center for a new moderators section, and look for a Discord ping. (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293312 |
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— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293312 |
@#63480 thanks for the Wikipedia info. Their RfA process is the kind of lightweight approach I'd like us to take here. Basically: propose candidates, give the community a chance to weigh in with support or concerns, and then proceed. Unlike on SO, Codidact mods do not have access to any PII, so th... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293312 |
Post edited: clarification about selection |
— | 30 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293312 |
This is a good point: we failed to say anything about selection. This decision belongs to the community, not the staff, as much as possible. If we get one nomination and all the votes are upvotes, we'd just appoint that person (uncontroversial). If there are a bunch of nominations or some have neg... (more) |
— | 30 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293312 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Call for moderators (2025) The Software Development community on Codidact recently reached an important milestone. Thank you to everyone who invests in building this community. We'd like to ask for a little more help. Alexei has been doing an outstanding job as a (currently solo) moderator, but it's better to have more th... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293302 |
Yes, it's too difficult to earn the higher abilities as things are implemented now, and we've wanted to rework this for a while. [This Meta question](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288363) has a lot of discussion of how we might address this -- more input welcome! With the system we have now, we c... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293210 |
Post edited: this is now live |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293210 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
A milestone for Software Development - congratulations! When we launch a community on our network, it starts in "new community" mode to ease bootstrapping. This means that all users start with the Participate Everywhere ability, which lifts new-user restrictions (mostly rate limits). The Software Development community is doing well -- you have a lot o... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293072 |
Post edited: It looks like the question is about one specific case, and the general answer would be "it depends" (based on comments). Since there's a good answer to the specific question, editing the title to match. |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292978 |
@#64656 yes, tag hierarchies exist. There might be some ontological problems building out the hierarchies you want, because we don't support multiple inheritance (a tag cannot have more than one parent). Suppose you have a question about designing a Java API. You'd want to tag it `java` and `api`,... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292978 |
I wonder about separate categories versus tagging. I can see arguments both ways. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292978 |
I strongly agree that program design is an important part of programming, especially for beginners but really for everybody because the things we learned when we were beginners might have since been superseded. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292974 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Comparing our site scope to Stack Overflow Some relevant history for consideration (not an answer about specific scope boundaries): When we started to discuss a programming or software community, we were concerned about premature fragmentation. We had a lot of discussion, which we ultimately resolved as a single community open to spin-off... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #281121 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #279915 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #279928 |
Post edited: fixed variable that crept in |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291434 |
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— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291458 |
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— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288594 |
Post edited: moving the contact link out of the footer (doesn't apply on other networks) and putting it here |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292546 |
It looks like the naming convention is currently, err, "mixed". I hope others will weigh in. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292546 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: I created a tag, now it need edit. Is `stream` the right name, or should it be more specific? If you came across that tag in the wild, would it be obvious that it's Java streams? We also have `filestream`, `node:stream`, `QTxtStream`, `vfs-stream`, and the more general `data-streaming`. A moderator can both rename the tag (if tha... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292151 |
Or, I suspect, the asker's thinking is: I'm writing my novel, saving "v37" etc isn't really a good way to manage checkpoints, also I want to be able to easily jump back to a good state from before I added that doomed plotline... how would I use source control to make my life easier?
In other words... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292151 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Where should I ask git questions? (Speaking personally, not for the team.) People using `git` are usually using it in a software context, and Software Development's scope is intentionally broad, so they definitely fit here. This is where most of them end up. That's fine. Questions about `git` can be on-topic elsewhere too. C... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290488 | Nominated for promotion | — | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292046 |
Post edited: fixed formatting problem that interfered with image example |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292026 |
Post edited: fixed duplicate title... |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292026 |
Post edited: replace generic slug with our network's policy |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #282870 |
That's a good point. It would be better to default to the current category (by adding it to the query shown on the results page), and then if you meant to search the whole community you could just delete that part.
We wanted to be able to specify categories by name rather than number, like with p... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291479 |
Thanks for this feedback. One related idea we want to pursue (haven't gotten very far yet unfortunately) is to make it easier for people to organically add "similar questions" and "possible duplicates" alongside a question ([Meta discussion](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/284169/284517#answer-284517... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291434 |
Err, we do have that now; see my answer. Yeah, I missed it too, oops. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291458 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: RSS feeds for tags There are RSS feeds for tags already, linked at the bottom of the tag page. (Yeah, I missed it too; I'll see if we can make that more obvious.) For example, here's the RSS feed for the feature-request tag. screenshot: bottom of tags page with link circled Update 2024-10-02: We've now added th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291434 |
We don't have that now, but since we do have other RSS feeds, I'm trying to find out what it would take to add this one. Thanks for the suggestion. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290885 |
That's a subscription for new posts, I think specifically new top-level posts, but it won't tell you about new responses you've received (comments, I think answers, suggested edits). (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #277136 |
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— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290379 |
Post edited: added info from a comment |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290379 |
Oops! Thank you, and I apologize -- we should have tested that scenario. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290379 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Enabling 2FA should include some recovery codes Setting up 2FA now produces a recovery code (with instructions to save it). If you later sign in using that recovery code, it disables 2FA until you re-enable it, getting a new code in the process. If you were already using 2FA before we added recovery codes, you'll need to disable and re-enable ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #277158 |
Post edited: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/1164 |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288728 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290281 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Allow tagging answers with tools and version numbers I asked a question on Meta about allowing tags for answers a while back. You might find the discussion there helpful. I'd still like to do something to support these use cases; it's not clear what we should do. If we did the smaller thing of supporting `[tag:name]` syntax in posts, so you'd get ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289928 |
Oh, I see -- sorry for misunderstanding! Looks good to me. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |