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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.

Posts by Mithical‭

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Meta Is it OK to use abusive content on code?

"Brainfuck" is the name of a programming language; using the full name of the language is perfectly fine. We don't need to bowlderize proper names. As for your other example - foul language in cod...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Autocompleting usernames in comments does not seem to work

Update: With the rollout of threaded comments, autocomplete has now been implemented. :) This feature doesn't currently exist. We're planning on revamping comments entirely at some point in the...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta how to mention user in comment?

Right now, just type out the username, preceded by an @ sign. There is not currently any auto complete. Good news, though; a total rework of the comment system is in the works right now, including...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Strategy to migrate meaningful content from Stack Overflow

Note: This is not an official Codidact staff answer; this is my personal opinion. Let's try to build up a bit of an original base before we work on imports. Based on other sites where content was ...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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

We rolled out a fairly major update this morning - implementing our new Abilities system. However, it... didn't go as smoothly as planned; the database apparently didn't update properly with new co...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta reaction isn't available

The reaction feature doesn't quite exist yet. That post is a suggestion for a future feature. It was positively received, which means we'll give it a try at some point in the future, but building ...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Participate Everywhere ability without meeting the requirements?

Software Development Codidact is currently set to "New Site Mode". When we first launch a community, we've been launching with adjusted settings that make it easier to earn certain Abilities. On...

posted 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Give actionable feedback when closing questions

To expand on my comment somewhat... In a question and answer format, personal questions like "What do you personally think?" don't tell to fare too well. There's not really any way to identify righ...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Resolving "fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'" and a warning about templates

On a live boot of Ubuntu 20.04, I was trying to clone into a private GitHub repository. I went through the hassle of installing git, and then gh, and making sure I was signed in through the termina...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Mithical‭

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