https://writing.codidact.com/categories/2/tags/358.rssNew Posts Tagged 'discussion' - WritingWriting - Codidact2024-02-28T16:41:13Zhttps://writing.codidact.com/posts/285027How can we grow this community?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462021-12-02T01:17:46Z2024-02-28T16:41:13Z<p>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, engage...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/288721Should posting on Meta affect reputation?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462023-06-27T00:48:56Z2023-06-27T00:48:56Z<p>When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, s...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286106Why was this question about authors shortening their sentences closed as a duplicate?TextKithttps://writing.codidact.com/users/536962022-03-12T20:08:46Z2022-05-22T17:23:39Z<p>Why close <a href="https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286099">https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286099</a> as a duplicate of <a href="https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286098">https://writing....https://writing.codidact.com/posts/279891Would a category to publish works or to request feedback be helpful?Mithicalhttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80822020-12-16T19:42:58Z2021-08-01T19:16:15Z<p>Aside from the challenges category, it crossed my mind that it'd be nice to have a place where people can share works for feedback (or just to share). For instance, if I've put together a short ...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/278810How can we revitalize our community?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462020-10-26T03:31:58Z2021-03-29T02:27:36Z<p>We've had low activity on our community for a while. Low activity means people visit less often, which means lower activity because they're not here asking and answering... iterate. We have ad...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/279078Move old writing challenges to writing challenge category?celtschkhttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80562020-11-12T10:16:53Z2020-11-12T10:57:05Z<p>I've been away for some time (for personal reasons), and noticed that we now have a category “writing challenges”. Now there are some <a href="https://writing.codidact.com/categories/2/tags/368"...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/275894Would content at ebooks.se be in scope here?James Jenkinshttps://writing.codidact.com/users/363322020-06-09T16:12:51Z2020-06-09T16:58:22Z<p>Would content at <a href="https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/">https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/</a> be in scope here?</p>
<p>I happened by the ebooks.meta and saw this post</p>
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<p><a...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/74997What new data should we import from SE?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462020-05-20T00:49:53Z2020-05-20T13:07:31Z<p>When we set up this site we imported from SE as of the December data dump (the latest we had at the time). We didn't have a way to get the delta; the import code didn't use the API.</p>...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/74774Shall we showcase some of our fiction, poetry, and other work?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462020-04-26T03:48:37Z2020-04-30T01:57:51Z<p>You might have noticed the new "categories" feature on this site. I mean this:</p>
<p><img src="https://writing.codidact.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6Ik...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39494Should we improve the UI/UX and visual appearence of the main site?Vishwahttps://writing.codidact.com/users/81782020-02-27T08:02:47Z2020-03-16T16:58:48Z<p>Doesn't mean that I'm saying it looks bad. but certainly it could be better. On first look, I see raw twitter bootstrap styling. Although it looks little bit cleaner, but we can add some...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39509Ads for this communityMonica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462020-03-08T18:01:15Z2020-03-09T22:32:05Z<p>One of our community members, Paulster2, has created some ads and submitted them on SE sites where we've advertised in the past. These are "community promotion" ads, meaning the S...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39497Are worldbuilding questions on topic?Andonhttps://writing.codidact.com/users/81822020-02-29T00:15:57Z2020-03-05T01:12:33Z<p>On SE, Writing and Worldbuilding are separate, and it works pretty well. I, however, use the Worldbuilding SE significantly more than the Writing SE, and as I reduce my usage of SE I would like ...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39333How shall we handle our old (imported) content?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462020-01-13T01:32:27Z2020-02-10T14:30:05Z<p>When we created this site, I made the executive decision to import all our content from Stack Exchange instead of starting with a blank slate. I did that for a few reasons:</p>
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<li><p>We ...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39408Questionable Promotions - Writing ChallengesEvil Sparrowhttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80652020-01-29T00:35:18Z2020-02-01T12:45:49Z<p>I notice we aren't getting a lot of new questions on here yet.</p>
<p>Last summer we had a series of writing challenges in Meta, like this one: https://writing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2127...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39357What topics can I ask about here?becky82https://writing.codidact.com/users/81202020-01-16T03:52:44Z2020-01-28T10:30:22Z<p>I did not find a webpage that explains what's on-topic here (although I'm not hugely familiar with the site).</p>
<p><strong>Question</strong>: What topics can I ask about here?</p>
<p...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39360Bravo, and thank youaparente001https://writing.codidact.com/users/81232020-01-16T06:00:24Z2020-01-16T06:00:24Z<p>A very nice start. I'm psyched. Thank you.</p>
https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39283Rep for Meta questionsGalastelhttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80532019-12-21T19:44:13Z2019-12-21T19:44:30Z<p><strong>At the moment, it appears we're receiving rep for Meta questions and answers, same as for regular questions and answers. Is that how we want it?</strong></p>
<p>I can see arguments ...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39248What are our plans for image uploading?Monica Celliohttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80462019-12-15T05:23:15Z2019-12-17T12:41:27Z<p>I needed to include screenshots in <a href="https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39247">this question</a> but didn't see a way to add them directly. I uploaded those to imgur so I could p...https://writing.codidact.com/posts/39243Discussion: Edit history from Stack Exchange not imported - copyright problem?celtschkhttps://writing.codidact.com/users/80562019-12-14T21:37:10Z2019-12-15T08:23:37Z<p>I noticed that only the last edit from Stack Exchange is imported, and attributed as a whole to the original poster.</p>
<p>I think this is problematic from a copyright point of view, since if ...