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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment | Post #291692 |
I like the painting suggestion, with a roller to keep all the paint on one face. The dice are also used for rolling, but I think a thin layer of paint will have a sufficiently small effect on the fairness to be acceptable for playtesting.
I'd expect markers to work well for most types of game, but... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291688 |
My estimate for custom dice with a blank image was based on my own research before asking the question. I've just checked your link and in sufficient bulk the cost plus shipping to the UK could be reduced down to USD$0.75 per dice. This is still more than I want to pay for a free game but significant... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291688 |
Yes you're right - this is definitely a substitute for asking directly for what I want - a supplier of blank 6th face dice. I thought a recommendation question might be off topic (although I suppose asking one might have been a good way of judging community opinion on that). I tried to ask a question... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291688 |
In the meantime I've ordered some dice that have different colour pips on each face, so the 6th face is distinguishable as the only face with purple pips.
For comparison, these cost USD\\$0.06 each (thanks to buying in bulk as a set of 500). (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291688 |
Thanks for the info. Yes using a blank image for custom dice is going to cost more than I want to spend (around USD\\$0.90 each). Your 200 was a good guess - I have a board size that uses 199 dice. However, I'd also like to playtest with larger board sizes, and also have the potential for more than 1... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291685 |
I'd still like to know how to find dice with the 6th face blank, but in the meantime I've found another type of dice that will work well (for my game that has each face belong to a different player). These dice have the pips on each face a different colour depending on how many pips on that face. So ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291685 |
I like that. Even hundreds of dice could be painted at once that way. Thank you! (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291685 |
Thank you - I've now added a section explaining the purpose. Your suggestion certainly works, and is my back up option if I can't find a way to get blank 6th face dice. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291685 |
Post edited: Describe purpose of blank 6th face dice |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291685 |
Post edited: Add extra search term |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291388 |
It would be useful if anyone with an opinion (whether a downvoter or not) could indicate whether they object to recommendation questions in general (in which case we can have a Meta discussion to find community consensus) or object to this particular recommendation question. For example, if you think... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291685 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Question | — |
How do I search for d6 dice with a blank 6th face? I haven't found what I'm looking for online, so I'm wondering if there is a specialist term for this type of dice that would give me better luck. What I'm seeking I'm looking for dice that are identical to standard d6 dice (pips representing the numbers) except with only the faces 1 to 5 having p... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
There have been previous suggestions that we could have a place to ask questions that are not on topic anywhere else:
- [Is there any disadvantages of getting Quora-like community which might affect Codidact](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/283083)
- [Incubator (takes all questions that aren't on-t... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290126 |
Yes it's probably worth implementing a check at migration stage. Ideally the migration of all of the questions for a given community tag should leave none remaining with only that community's tag.
A question with more than one community tag would presumably be copied to the new site rather than mi... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290127 |
I agree. The difference needs to be immediately obvious to everyone.
The only problem I see is that if one community wants a tag that happens to be the name of another community, then it would need to be displayed differently when it is the tag for a community called "shopping" than when it is a s... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290126 |
Even so, we would probably need to make sure mandatory tags are deleted as their proposed communities migrate, so the list doesn't get *too* long. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290126 |
For the UI problem, dealing with that might also help if there are other instances in future that have other reasons for larger numbers of mandatory tags. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290126 |
I wonder if there's a way to reduce the admin burden without introducing too much chaos.
What if anyone could add a proposed community tag, but only admins could delete/downgrade them? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290127 |
The tags for proposed communities are already visually distinguished by having a dark outline, but if this wasn't obvious then maybe the distinction needs to be clearer, perhaps with a different interior colour as you suggest. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290121 |
I've raised on Meta a feature request to [Make proposed community tags mandatory](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290126) to avoid this problem. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290126 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Make proposed community tags mandatory Every question in the Incubator Q&A category should have 1 or more tags for a proposed community, so that it is clear which community or communities the question is intended for. Currently it is possible to add a question without adding a proposed community tag. Could the presence of such a tag be... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289195 |
I like this idea of sorting the proposals list by last activity in the proposal tag. It seems a good compromise between freezing and staying at the top of the list when inactive. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289219 |
The field does not seek to create life, but to study the natural emergence of life in contexts other than that of existing known life. This then helps improve our understanding of natural life on Earth.
Having a list of open problems does not stop something being a field of research. Mathematics, ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289219 |
Artificial Life is already a recognised interdisciplinary research field. See the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life). It already has a [journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Life_(journal)) and [a number of conferences](https://alife.org/conference/).
Th... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289372 |
I agree with Olin that unexplained acronyms can leave some people alienated.
Rather than downvoting or telling post authors that they have to explain acronyms, we could simply suggest edits where an acronym appears to be less widely understood than the post author realised.
If the post is other... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289609 |
Also, the same question on Codidact Meta for Collab: [Codidact Collab - should it be listed?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287378) (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289609 |
[Discoverability for the new Proposals site](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289600) (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
I'd also want to consider readers who do not have an account (or just don't happen to be logged in). They would either need to be opted in, and have slow page loads, or be opted out, and have to manually activate rendering for every MathJax post. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
If I was participating in a community that had MathJax enabled for only some users then I would want to avoid using it in my posts.
If I was a user with MathJax disabled then I would see posts that are very difficult to read, but where the post authors assume there is no problem because they see r... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
This is useful to know - thank you.
That's a good point about only enabling MathJax on communities that choose it. It's worth bearing in mind that when a proposed community migrates to its own subdomain, it will take all its incubator posts with it. So if we give MathJax by default to all proposed... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
Great news! Maybe we can get it changed on Codidact Proposals and pilot it before offering it to more communities. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
I don't know how easy it is to reconfigure MathJax to use `$$` and `$$$` but if it can be done that sounds like a big improvement.
We'd still need to check if there are any other objections from communities that don't want MathJax. That was just the example I was personally aware of.
Another po... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289195 |
Thanks for expanding the idea. I've added an answer there with an alternative idea that it made me think of, but maybe parts of both could be used in parallel. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289191 |
That's good to know. I confirmed in my local development environment that the order is not applied to the displayed reactions, only to the menu. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289191 |
Currently the reactions are displayed in the order they were added. This means that if one proposal has a casual user react first, the count of casual users shows before the count of active users. For another proposal, the count of active users may show before the count of casual users.
The wordin... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289195 |
I understand this is a burden to keep applying reactions, but it seems like a more up to date measure of how strongly people feel about getting the community going, and how enduring that feeling is. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289195 |
That's an interesting point you raise about people who were interested a year ago not necessarily still being engaged. This makes me wonder if it might be useful for reactions to have different behaviour here than on other communities.
For example, a "casual user" reaction could disappear a month ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289134 |
I tried recreating this with an answer on the development server and pressing back gave me an empty text box rather than the content of the answer I had just created. Not sure if it depends on saving before/after a draft is automatically saved. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289134 |
Sounds plausible. If you press back after creating a post you will be back on the create post page, with the content you just saved still present. If you don't realise that the post has already been created you could then add more content and save a duplicate. Maybe we should prevent the content bein... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289134 |
Sounds plausible. If you press back after creating a post you will be back on the create post page, with the content you just saved still present. If you don't realise that the post has already been created you could then add more content and save a duplicate. Maybe we should prevent the content bein... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289099 |
Post edited: Fix for dollar amounts being interpreted as MathJax |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289099 |
Although the diff for the suggested edit still looks like it has a MathJax problem, my testing on the dev server suggests that if you accept it the post will be rendered correctly.
Working out how to suppress MathJax when 2 or more dollar signs are used in a single paragraph is non-trivial, so I h... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289268 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289268 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289268 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Should proposals all have MathJax or none have MathJax? Some Codidact communities have MathJax enabled, while others do not. Each community decides whether they want MathJax based on weighing up the advantages and disadvantages. However, Codidact Proposals has to make this decision once for all proposed communities. Currently MathJax is switched on for... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289099 |
Suggested edit: Fix for dollar amounts being interpreted as MathJax (more) |
helpful | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289126 |
Are you interested in a particular type of book? I imagine answers may vary depending on whether the book is a novel, a reference manual, a biography, a textbook. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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