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Welcome to Writing on Codidact!
Welcome to a new home for the Writing community. Please use it, report problems and make requests on Meta, and collect your thoughts about what we need to support our community.
This site is running on beta software that will eventually become Codidact. We started with a Q&A platform that already existed, and over the coming weeks, we will be evolving this software toward the feature set we've identified for the first official release of Codidact. This means some things will change (mostly things will be added), but the core -- a community built around questions and answers -- will not change. You can read more about the vision for the platform and the features for the first release.
All questions and answers from SE have been imported. Votes have not; this site is a clean start, and anyway, we don't know who voted so we can't tell you whether you've already voted on something. You can claim ownership for your imported content: log in to SE, go to your profile page on this site (link in the header), click on "edit profile", and go down to the bottom where you'll see an import button. Results might take some time; lots of stuff is going on in the background.
There is a reputation system here for now, but there are no some rep-based privileges yet (see Art's answer). It's kind of like a private beta at SE; everybody can do most things, so be careful. I believe deletion requires only one vote and I don't know what auditing is available. We don't have many moderation tools yet, but we do have flags. Be nice and be careful please. If you run into problems or have questions, post here on meta.
Welcome aboard! We have a great community; let's build a great site together.
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So: a little bit of background, and a little bit of information about the site.
Background
QPixel is a project I started a few years ago to be a clone of SE. It got to a decent stage, and then I mostly abandoned it as I moved onto other things. With the recent events on Stack Exchange and the advent of Codidact, I remembered QPixel existed, and spent some time bringing it up to date and up to scratch with enough features to be viable.
As Monica said, QPixel is not Codidact. QPixel is still based on the idea of being a clone of SE; Codidact intends to be "community focused Q&A", which is likely to mean some feature and philosophy changes along the way, and being fundamentally based around a different idea will introduce some differences. Whether it'll be better or worse... who knows - it's mostly irrelevant, in any case, as the question should be more "what works best for our use case?"
Content Import & Claiming Your Stuff
I've imported everything that was in the Writers database as of the 2nd December 2019 (that's when Stack Exchange last released a data dump). I have imported the scores, but haven't applied them to the post - you can see the score each post had on SE by following the "history" link under each post, and the score will be under an "Imported from external source" event.
You can, as Monica alluded to, claim the stuff you created on SE here too. Get yourself signed up here, then edit your profile, and you'll find the buttons for it down the bottom of the page. When you claim your content, all of your content is claimed - your profile will only show up to 5 questions and 5 answers, but you do own all of it. Showing more than that is on the TODO list for version 1.1 - more on that in a moment.
Moderation & Moderators
The moderation tools available here are limited, but there are some essentials in place. You can flag posts: you'll be asked to specify a reason why you're flagging, and it'll get put into a queue for moderators to look at - it's much like a "needs moderator attention" flag on SE.
Moderators, as with SE, are able to take just about any action here regardless of reputation: primarily, they can close questions and delete posts. It's completely up to y'all how you want to use that; I'm not intending to stand in the way of making this work for you.
As of 2020-01-16, the moderators are currently myself and the current and former moderation staff from Stack Exchange. Beyond that, how you pick your moderators is up to you.
Privileges
A limited number of rep-based privileges exist here. They are Edit, Close, and Delete/ViewDeleted; the reputation required for them is currently 250, 500, and 1000 respectively. Those thresholds are configurable: as with the rest, it's up to you where they're set, and you may want to change them as folks get more reputation.
Feedback
If you've got feedback, you can post here on Meta. If you're more comfortable with GitHub, you can also leave bug reports and feature requests in the issue tracker. You can see the version of the software that's currently running in the site footer.
There's some things that still need doing, and a bunch that have now been done and added in. I have a TODO list, but it keeps changing as things get added or completed, so I won't post it here too - you can see the full thing over here.
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