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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: "Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly While reviewing older bug reports we discovered that the first problem is now working; the code fences show up in the diff. The second one still shows as one line without a clear diff, but I don't think we've seen a recent case so it's possible that's a one-off data error of some sort. I'm going to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286984 |
As Mithical said, the community definitely has a voice; we don't want to push you around. If you (plural) think you're approaching the point where we should turn this off, please raise it on meta and we'll work out the logistics with the mods. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286948 |
Right, articles are intended for jumping straight to "I have information to share", for cases where it doesn't work as well to use an answer (question doesn't exist, question would be too broad, whatever). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286948 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Asking and answering FAQ style questions As other answers have said, we have some of these, they're helpful, and they can be hard to write. On Codidact there's another option, should the community want to enable it: articles. An article is another type of top-level post. They're being used in a few different ways around the network: lo... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286863 |
I don't know enough to have an opinion on the specific cases you raise, but are tag hierarchies helpful for any of this? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286768 |
Thank you! That "click again to dismiss the pop-up" thing you mentioned with reactions applies to all the other cases of that, too -- inbox, flag dialogue, search, etc. That's been a little confusing for people used to sites where those elements are more transient, so it's great to hear that it wor... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286685 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Reaction comment doesn't appear if previous comment for retracted reaction was deleted I wrote this in a comment on the GitHub issue and would be interested in input: > I can think of two fixes, both in the reaction-handling code: > > 1. Check for an existing thread (as it does now) and then, if it's deleted, undelete it. Problem: this can resurrect something that a moderator deci... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286411 |
@#53629 would the question benefit from a tag that captures the CAD aspect? If so, could you suggest one? (I don't know this space so I wouldn't want to guess.) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278868 |
You posted this a long time ago and I thought we were tracking it on GitHub, but if so I can't find it. I conclude that I failed to create the ticket, for which I apologize. I've done so now here: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/777. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285999 |
I guess it depends what the 400 lines contain. :-) I would personally skip boilerplate stuff to help readers focus on the important parts, but that might be a matter of formatting. It sounds like the asker might have run into an overall limit on post size; I'm not sure what that is, but I think 30,... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285999 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Should I post a link to the Github repo for code reviews? Welcome! It's best if the code being reviewed is here on the site, for ease of reference and defense against link rot. That sounds like a sizable program; are there key parts you'd like review on, as opposed to the whole thing? You could include the GitHub link for anybody who wants to run it as... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278625 |
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— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285894 |
Thanks for this feedback, and I'm sorry for the confusion with the buttons. I guess them being outside the bounding box for the thread isn't clear enough because they're also pretty close to that box. We are planning to make improvements to comments, including being able to fully expand a thread in... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285829 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Should we allow questions about software quality assurance? My personal opinion (I am not speaking for Codidact) is that we named the community "Software Development", not "Programming". Testing, both unit testing done by the developer and functional/performance/integration testing done (usually) by testers, is part of the software-development process writ l... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285035 |
@#54648 sorry, we haven't gotten self-serve deletion in place yet. There's a "contact us" link at the bottom of the page; could you send us a request that way, either the support portal or email, and we'll route it to the right person? Thanks, and sorry to see you go. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285035 |
The primary challenge with any new community is attracting people. We're not trying to clone SO; rather, we're trying to learn from our experiences there and elsewhere as we build something new -- new both in terms of software and in terms of the community mindset. We have the opportunity to do thi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285485 |
Nice! Also, today I learned about `-ip` -- that sounds really useful. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285455 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Tracking what users are searching in a content management system Every URL served by your web site is recorded in your web server logs. You could brute-force your way through it by grepping for whatever the prefix is for your search URLs (for example, `/search?query=`), but if you're using a tool or package to build and run your web site (the question title refer... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285399 |
You could mention categories as a way of separating related content and, in particular, that Software Dev has one for code reviews. Software Dev isn't currently using other post types (like a blog with articles), so that's probably not something to bring up for promoting this community.
Maybe men... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285398 |
Also, the foundation account is happy to post or share stuff, so please let us know if you do post things on LinkedIn that we can amplify. Thanks! (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
I wonder if a pre-commit hook can test whether a file is already in the repo. If so, then you could write one to block new additions -- at the cost of some hassle when you actually do want to add a new PDF image to your source. Hmm. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
@#36377 actually, on further thought, a git commit hook doesn't seem right. Those files shouldn't be in your repo to begin with (that's your goal), so is something auto-adding them to the commit? If you never say `git add unwanted.pdf` then it shouldn't get there, but some git clients (like Tortois... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
I agree that last option is not great. It's fragile and will bloat .gitignore over time, since the script can never safely *remove* things, only *add* them. Segregated build output is best; git hook to prevent committing unwanted PDFs would be second-best I think. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285366 |
Do you have to build the LaTeX output into the source directory? Or can you segregate it and then ignore the build directory? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285222 |
Post edited: fixed title damaged in otherwise-good edit |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281229 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281229 |
Good catch, thanks. Status-overcome-by-events, I guess. :-) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285035 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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How can we grow this community? 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 participants. The folks already here are doing good work; our challenge is to find more people like you ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284872 |
That's a good point; we should have a way of letting mods know that we've modified base help topics, so they can review and apply changes if they like. We do this so rarely that I never think of it. :-) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284872 |
In case this helps with findability (or linkability) in the future:
As a moderator you should be able to edit the "how to ask a great question" topic in the help. The cost of editing is that if we update the central copy in the future you won't get the updates (we do not attempt merges), but tha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284904 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Specify framework / library version in the answer When I first saw this I thought this would be a use case for being able to apply tags to answers (which I've brought up before on Meta, IIRC). But version ranges are a little different, and I don't think you want to necessarily create tags for every version of something just so people can tag answer... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284587 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Are general questions (hopefully resulting in comprehensive, 'canonical' answers) in scope This sounds like useful content to me. I defer to the community on how best to achieve that; I'm here to offer another option from the platform side, in case it's useful. Codidact support articles in addition to questions and answers. An article is a top-level post type that doesn't have childre... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283861 |
Thanks @#53078. If things change in the future please do let us know. And either way, I appreciate your participation here. Your answers have helped me and, I assume, many others. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283671 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283667 |
@#53196 I don't think +0/-0 and +3/-3 have the same score. Well, they're not supposed to; I just checked that post and they all say 0.5. **Edit:** I was wrong; according to our help +N/-N is a score of 0.5. I thought the controversy had an impact. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283667 |
[This post on Meta](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279573) has, at this writing, a +3/-3 sandwiched between two +0/-0s, but they're not in age order either. Hmm. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283198 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283198 |
We think this is fixed now. Can you try again? Sorry for the inconvenience. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283001 |
This is a tangent I know, but why `.dup` on the second case (the char[])? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282870 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279713 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282870 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |