Activity for Monica Cellio
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Comment | Post #290519 |
Our problem was that we didn't want those non-breaking spaces _at all_, not that we wanted to enter them a different way. The hyphenation approach is one we hadn't found, thanks -- do you have a link for that? We've since moved off of Flare for its many annoyances, so I'm no longer in a position to... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
Comment | Post #10919 |
Thanks for the pointer. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
Comment | Post #283582 |
This is what we ended up doing, and I used the points in this answer to make the case. (I'd been *saying* semantics is better than mere formatting, but it sounded like just a philosophical argument without the points about accessibility and agent behavior.) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #286107 |
@#8176 that sounds like a good topic for a meta discussion. Would you like to start it? (I might not get to it for a couple days.) At current activity levels I don't think we'd need to spin off a separate community for it; whether it should be part of main Q&A or a separate category is something t... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #283746 |
What I meant is that instead of nuking the post without a trace, we could leave a "gravestone" behind to attach history to, like flags, if we wanted to. I haven't given this much thought. It just feels off that the reward for flagging spam is to lose "credit" for your flag in abilities calculations... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #283746 |
Yeah, sorry about that. I think when posts get completely obliterated, their associated stats go too. But flag count feeds into abilities, so we should see if we can do something about that. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #281759 |
https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/648 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #281759 |
@#53196 could you flag something that won't be deleted (like this post), to see if your flags page then shows up for you? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #283582 |
We actually are concerned about accessibility in our technical documentation, so thank you especially for pointing out the issue with screen readers and with CSS failing to load. The browser natively knows that the code tag is special and can do something with that absent any other inputs. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #283576 |
We apparently have that CSS already. My point is that we have two different ways of producing the same formatting in the output, the code *tag* and the code *CSS class*, and I'd like to know if there are reasons to prefer one over the other. I want us to have one consistent way of doing it, not two... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #282597 |
Even if we (optionally) collect an email address so that further interaction is possible, we'd still need a public ticketing system of some sort to manage it. (I mean "public" not just in the sense of where it lives but in the sense of "anybody can view tickets".) What tools should we consider for ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #282596 |
Thanks for suggesting the "how can we improve this page?" framing; I agree that's much better. The context here (which I wasn't clear about) is technical documentation, not marketing fluff. One type of useful comment we get is requests for specific examples. Too many of our pages show only the bas... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
Comment | Post #281759 |
I don't know, but I've forwarded this to someone who can take a closer look. (Gotta look the error code up in the database, which I can't do myself.) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #281759 |
Huh, weird. I see it too, for you here. (But not for me here. I haven't checked you elsewhere but I assume it's fine for me since it is for you.) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #281002 |
I beat my head against this for a while so when I finally found it I decided to ask and answer here. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #280721 |
File shares become write-only kitchen junk drawers, in my experience -- it's easy to add stuff but harder to find and organize it, and actually *maintaining* it is even harder. Jira would be an improvement for you because of the integration with Confluence, which you're already using. For example, ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #280651 |
@Olin thanks for the debugging tip! I hadn't thought of that. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #280477 |
Hello and welcome to Writing Codidact! This question is very broad so I'm putting it on hold for now. Can you edit to describe what problems you're running into? We're much better at solving specific problems than disseminating general hints. Every situation is a little different, so please tell ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #279891 |
For feedback before submitting elsewhere for publication, need to consider that some publishers won't accept anything that's been "previously published". We can restrict visibility of a category to people with accounts to keep stuff out of Google, but it'd mean you wouldn't be able to usefully share... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #279085 |
Oh right; there's a separate feature request about keyboard shortcuts for editing, not yet implemented. Sorry for my confusion. Could you file a bug report on any meta about the category issue @celtschk? Thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #279085 |
Oh whoops -- I thought we had a help topic about that, but I guess not. @celtschk see https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276697. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #279085 |
True, and what I do normally anyway (just type the Markdown links) -- for me that's faster than going through a GUI, because I'm almost always inserting the links as I compose. But if somebody is using keyboard shortcuts to navigate the GUI, and that works in general but not in this specific case, t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #279078 |
Welcome back! It's good to see you here again. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #279079 |
Ooh, looking to the time *before* ubiquitous mice for hints -- nice! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #278987 |
@MarkBaker I agree with that assessment, but had previously perceived you to oppose deleting imported content. Thanks for clearing that up. Speaking for myself, I do have a few imported posts that I went on to *improve*, and I want to give them a new life here, but since I've claimed them they no l... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #278987 |
@MarkBaker, are you suggesting we delete the imports (if we haven't improved them; I know some have been edited)? Not opposed, just asking for clarification. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #278891 |
We use italics for variables. In my first example, schema and table-name are variables and would be italicized, but "if not exists" is literal text that is optional. (We do try to include examples on all our reference pages too. We're trying to support both the "just show me the formal syntax" re... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #277206 |
I found this to be really well-done and touching. I haven't had dogs as an adult but I grew up with pet dogs and now I have cats. I've had to make that painful decision. We had a dog who had been previously abused, though obviously we didn't get the dog's POV, just saw the effects (trust, fear, et... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #277082 |
@aCVn `<pre>` is what we're using now (actually inside a `<div class="example">` for some other styling; don't know why). It doesn't have to be that specifically; I don't know whether this was intentional or an artifact of porting from a prior tool, but either way it was ten years ago and we can cer... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #277083 |
I might be misunderstanding, but how does this account for the different line lengths needed on different devices? This looks like a way to style wrap, but how do you get automatic wrapping inside a pre? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #276843 |
This is excellent. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #276643 |
Also, I'm pretty sure the "writing" tag is a data-import bug; that doesn't make sense. I've pinged the developers. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #276643 |
I did some structuring in some of the tech-writing and tools tags. I made software a child of tools since tools is broad, and the put Word and Scriviner under software. As we come across more we can add them in. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
Comment | Post #276129 |
@MarkBaker with the poor records we have it's hard to tell, but people also didn't used to be as mobile as they are now, so that probably led to more pressure to conform too (you're stuck with these people or, alternatively, the consequences of being expelled are severe). Plus you need something to ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #275876 |
Oh, that's bold? It's a small-enough difference that, on its own, I didn't realize. Thanks. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #275876 |
Nice! Did you mean for the first line to also be inside the blockquote? Or is it a title and not part of the poem itself? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #275819 |
Confirmed. It happens if you use the controls, but not if you type markdown (which is what I tried first, before realizing what you meant). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #75027 |
@aCVn agreed on all points, including using sparingly. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #75003 |
Good point about burying the original content, which we need more of (and to be more findable). And we should continue to prune stuff from the original import that is not helping us -- downvotes and flags are helpful there. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74979 |
@Canina agreed. The goal is to design with both in mind. In fact, most developers are using desktop, so we have to actively think about mobile -- but we want to do that *early*, not *later*. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74906 |
@aCVn yes, it's the aggregation that makes the idea attractive to me. You can see at a glance what the overall reaction is, and if you want to read the comments you might learn more but you don't have to. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74958 |
Other things that can cause activity are edits and closing/reopening. But yes, there's a bug here and we're trying to characterize it. Sometimes it's right and sometimes it's not. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74906 |
@Mark that's an idea worth exploring. Better to not count them and then decide to (if it's compatible with how they're being used) than do it and then take it away (which could frustrate people). Once we get there at all, I could see experimenting with ways to use that data. Since it would already... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74877 |
This is a question about the site, not about writing, so we've moved it to Meta. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74876 |
Obligatory reminder: I'm a *technical* writer; creative writing is more of a stretch for me, unlike most folks here. :-) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74875 |
Issue created: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/73 (a priority or sequence number is what I suggested too). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74875 |
Ooh yes, we want the sequence to be controllable somehow. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #74843 |
I saw a question I wanted to answer, so I imported it here the old-fashioned way. This is an experiment. I don't plan to make a habit of this or anything, but it's in keeping with the license. If I could disassociate the question I would, sorry. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #38868 |
I just closed https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39190 as a duplicate of this one. There are more answers there. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
Comment | Post #34630 |
@Liquid, sorry for the off-topic comment but I don't have another way to contact you. You were running writing challenges (opening line, word, theme...) over on SE; would you be interested in restarting them here? If so, could you leave me a comment at https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39558#an... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |