luap42‭

Welcome to Codidact! This is mostly a Q&A community, as you likely know from Stack Exchange already. However, I only said "mostly", because there are some differences you should know: Codidac...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by jbaber‭

One of our longstanding design goals is to grant privileges based on people's activity and not just based on a reputation number. We think it's better if you gain abilities based on your track rec...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 5y ago by luap42‭

Update (2020-12-29): I've sent emails to everyone who is eligible to get a t-shirt or stickers. I'm sorry that it took a while, but you know, life happens. It's been an interesting year so far and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Currently, it is possible to upvote and downvote answers. That's likely enough in most situations, but there are some cases where you might want to have more than one way to react to a post. For ex...

9 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

tl,dr: No. I'm sorry, but this just isn't possible. First of all, we all are people with a real life. We all have full-time responsibilities in real life. These responsibilities are unquestionable...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭

So... as promised, here's a post on how Abilites are designed. If you haven't already, read the official announcement for them, before continuing to read this post to get a high-level understanding...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 4y ago by sau226‭

We have added a summary of votes received (i.e. votes on own posts) to user profiles. You can access it by going to the Vote Summary tab. The summary is available publicly: The votes are aggrega...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

A bit over a year ago, I proposed to add a “reactions” like feature on Codidact, which would allow marking answers as “accepted”, “outdated” or “dangerous”, providing more detailed feedback to user...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

tl;dr: Codidact is contracted from "co" (together; Latin) and "didact" (to learn; Greek) There has been a forum discussion for that question, too, I'm summarizing the important aspects from ther...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 5y ago by luap42‭

Since Codidact was founded, we have had one rule leading our path every step of the way. It's the rule that community comes first. That the Codidact "staff" shouldn’t overrule the community, but co...

9 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  closed as duplicate 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

For obvious reasons, we do not allow you to use any tag or attribute you want. All tags, that aren't on a special inclusion list are stripped from the input. There are two lists, one for posts and...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

Looking at the site settings, it appears, that there are these privileges currently: 250 reputation grant you the privilege to close and reopen questions. 500 reputation will allow you to edit po...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 5y ago by luap42‭

The level of activity of the communities vary. Some are more active than others, which isn't exactly a problem. However, I'm a bit worried when a community becomes significantly less active than ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Andreas‭

I'm sorry, but to my best knowledge, the Codidact core team has no millionaires. We don't even have a common "Codidact bank account", because a certain pandemic has made it much harder to open one...

posted 5y ago by luap42‭

The reason Discord was chosen is disappointingly simple: It's just the chat software I used and knew best when I invited some people over from Stack Exchange to start this project. The Discord serv...

posted 1y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭