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Meta Minor typo in /help/how-to-ask

Look at the first paragraph of the /help/how-to-ask page, under the subheading "Make sure your question is in scope". The last line of the first paragraph has been quoted below for reference. Mark...

1 answer  ·  posted 21d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 21d ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Flags page returns 500 error when having a flag on a deleted post

For some reason, I can't access my flags page (https://writing.codidact.com/users/53196/flags). It just returns a 500 server error. It seems to only be only on this community for some reason; I ca...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Links in the Q&A banner text give a 404

The links in the banner text for the Q&A category all lead to 404s due to (I assume) outdated links. E.g. "fiction" leads to https://writing.codidact.com/questions/tagged/1/fiction instead of h...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Finishing link entry with enter sends the post instead

I just got caught by something I consider a bug: I wanted to link to a web site, and used the link button above the entry box to do so. After I finished entering (or rather, pasting) the link into ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Move old writing challenges to writing challenge category?

I've been away for some time (for personal reasons), and noticed that we now have a category “writing challenges”. Now there are some old challenges in Meta which predate that category, but IMHO wo...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Suggestion - Comment Sections

Feature Request/Suggestion: Comments It could just be me, but I've noticed that there's a lot of space between answers. More than once, I've looked at a question and thought it wasn't answered, onl...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Tags: regular/Meta, and tag wikis

Just checked: the tags for regular questions and for Meta are all available everywhere. I can ask a question tagged "feature-request" on the main page, for instance. Is it possible to have them sep...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Galastel‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Why can't I upvote this answer?

I tried to upvote this answer but my vote doesn't seem to register. Maybe it is because it is owned by System, but then, there are other answers owned by System that already have upvotes. Note that...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Header control moving cursor to end

I encountered a bug today while writing an answer. If I write my answer, and then put headers in the middle of it using the heading button, my cursor jumps to the end of my answer. So if I went bac...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Unable to select tags beyond the mid C's

I was writing a question today *applause occurs immediately*. When I went to tag it, I was able to select the 'characters' tag just fine. But then I tried to add 'creative-writing', and found that ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Is there a tags page?

Is there a way to see a list of tags? When I want to answer questions, it'd be helpful if I can zero in on areas of interest.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Neil‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Last activity data incorrect

The "last activity" data on posts appears to be inaccurate. I just answered a question, but while the answer count shows my answer, the last activity data still refers to the time the question was ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Sequence of Categories

I suggest having "Meta", being the least "real" on each Community, be the last Category in the (currently horizontal menu) list. If others disagree, then it can be as-is. But whether that gets cha...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta What happened to the Questions Tab?

What happened to the Questions Tab? We used to be able to see multiple pages of questions and view them in different ways, including "Lottery". Now there is just one page of questions with no navig...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Notifications for actually *new* questions

I recently subscribed to notifications for new questions posted on the site, but as a result I'm being spammed with a daily list of questions that have any change, including very old questions with...

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

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Meta Alert box when clicking "Delete" on an answer says "Are you sure you want to delete this *question*?"

Out of curiosity I clicked the "delete" link on one of my answers and the alert box that pops up asks whether I want to delete this "question", whereas it should ask whether I want to delete this "...

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

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Meta Suggestion - Direct links off of notifications

Today I got a notification that I had been mentioned in a comment. However, when I clicked on the notification, I went to the question the comment was on. On SE, you go straight to the comment, and...

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

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Meta Questionable Promotions!

I notice we have a dearth of activity on this site. With a relatively small number of active users, perhaps we can add a tab to the "Questions" Page. We have Activity, Age, Score as sorting algori...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Email subscription

This place is not exactly lively yet. That is not a surprise. But one quickly loses interest in visiting just to find nothing new day after day. Pretty soon you don't come back at all. What would...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Changing avatar issue

When trying to use here the same avatar I used to have on SE, I got the following error message: 413 Request Entity Too Large I can only assume that SE does an auto-resize, which we don't yet hav...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Galastel‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Suggestion - Tag section and suggestions

Feature Request/Suggestion: Tags Tags exist right now, ported over from SE, but we don't have any structure for new questions. I'd like to see tag suggestions, like we have on SE, where you start...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Suggestion - Answer Links

There's currently no way to link directly to answers. SE has a 'share' button which does this. I use this ability quite frequently to refer to certain relevant answers.

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

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Meta What are our plans for image uploading?

I needed to include screenshots in this question but didn't see a way to add them directly. I uploaded those to imgur so I could post, but that's not the ideal solution. (You'll see why if you lo...

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

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Meta Suggestion: Support edit comments

As far as I can tell, there is no way to explain the edit you do. There is no field to enter one. Also, in my latest edit, I tried to supply one as HTML comment in my post, but in the edit histor...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Bug - Imported images aren't scaled to fit the page

Take a look at my recently imported question: https://writing.codidact.com/questions/36723 The first answer contains a picture which is scaled on the SE site, but no scaling is applied to the post...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Troyen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Meta Bug - Not all Users are listed

Bug Report - Missing Users I've noticed that some users, like Thomo and Lauren Ipsum, who have made accounts here (because their profiles don't say they are ported over, just that they haven't wr...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Add "ask question" button to main page

It took me a second to see "Ask!" in the top right of the page. The way there is an "Ask Meta Question" button on the meta subpage is great; it's inline with the content and list of questions. Ea...

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

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Meta Interface for showing changes in the history is not very discoverable

It took me quite a while to discover how to see what was changed in an edit. Some visual clue on how to get it would be a good idea, I think.

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Could the question list show what the most recent activity was (and by whom), rather than the author of the question?

I've realized in using this site how dependent I am on the information on the SE question list about who and what bumped a post. "Answered by" + name is a valuable "hey, go read this!" clue, as do...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by System‭

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Meta I answered a question 2 hours ago, but the front page says the last activity was 8 hours ago.

According to the question list, this question was last active 8 hours ago as I write this: However, I answered it 2 hours ago as shown in the history on my answer: Is this list heavily cached...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by System‭

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Meta Bug - Unable to Import Content

I'm having trouble trying to claim my content. If I go to "Edit Profile", click "Authenticate", and sign in to SE, I get: redirect_uri is not under the registered domain for this application I ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  edited 4y ago by System‭

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Meta Suggestion - clearly mark Meta questions in the Hot Questions box

In the hot questions, it is not clear what are actual questions and what are Meta questions (well, if the title starts with Suggestion, it probably is meta). It would be nice if Meta questions woul...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭