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Searching for a tag name using a string that doesn't exist in any tag causes internal server error 500. Reproduce this way: Click Tags in the menu In the search box, type something that doesn'...
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, engaged p...
I'm not very familiar with this site but was pointed to it by a comment. That made me wonder, what exactly is the scope of this site when it comes to residential wiring? For example, Basic wiri...
This discussion was prompted by answers to this question. While the answers are good (basically, when designing for the medical field, either be or hire someone knowledgeable about the specific re...
In my effort to clean-up and organize tags on EE.CD I arrived at a point where there are a lot of old tags with wrong capitalization. How should I request the staff to change them? Should I post ...
Because of recent discussions regarding whether vague terms like voltage and ground should be valid tag names or not, it is clear that we have no consistent rules here. These terms are about on-top...
I've done a lot of work on tags lately and I'd like to share with the community some thoughts about the way tags should be named so that maybe it could become part of the FAQ and so hopefully lead ...
A while back someone suggested that we added a section for reviews to the site - How about a new section for code reviews? From that meta thread we gathered that: There seems to be community con...
I've just finished a first clean-up of the tags pages, where I consolidated tags, provided synonyms, wrote guidance text and defined some hierarchy. As a result there are quite a lot of "dead" tag...
I've noticed there are a lot of tags referring to general physical quantities (e.g. current, voltage, frequency) I'm not sure if they are useful. For example, what usage would have the tag voltage...
Has anyone else noticed a loss of reputation recently. I thought I checked yesterday and my reputation was a hundred points higher at 1889. Now it is at 1789. My vote summary doesn't indicate a los...
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, sorr...
I'm in the process of giving the tags page some structure, writing tag descriptions and creating synonyms and some hierarchy. I'd like to know the Community stance on a new tag I'd like to add: b...
Quite often, I find myself knowing the technical term of an electronic component in my native language, but not the proper English term. For example when translating a manual or other technical doc...
After reading various low quality questions Someplace Else today, it (once again) occurred to me that a whole lot of people, mostly hobbyists and engineering students, have no clue how to do the mo...
The question below was raised by a "new user". The identity of the "new user" was deleted because it was found to be an alias of an already suspended user: - So, why is the question still active...
At Somewhere Else, we started an initiative to make a community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering: What are abbreviations used in electrical engineering? I think it c...
Every time I visit Codicact I miss the comment voting feature. There is no way to know if some comment is rubbish or a gem because the opinions of others are hidden from future visitors. I wish t...
Easy way to convert over long comment into an answer. It would be great if while typing a quick comment to a question you realise that you are about to exceed the character count and it is a valid...
This question may be only for @Olin Lathrop but I would like to hear others opinion When I had asked the question he just said that "What's the question?"- 'This "question" is just lecturing on co...
I posted a post containing C code in the Papers category here, using the ```c formatting which works elsewhere on Codidact. The code does not get formatted with color coding, though it gets fixed ...
One of the aggrevations Elsewhere were all the vandal and retribution downvotes. They never took the problem seriously. Now it's happening here. Andy was the latest target, twice, recently. I'v...
It's still happening: - Can someone actually do anything about this? This has happened on stack exchange before but this is ridiculously more far fetched than what has ever happened there. Do y...
Looking at the "papers" category, I found that several papers do not fit the very purpose of this category (that's the reason I've not upvoted them). Nevertheless, they are relatively well written,...
Why am I getting these downvotes? It started last week (or the week before) and now it seems like it's getting contagious: - Seems like this site has some of the same outrageous inclinations as ...
Are reference material requests on-topic here? For example, I am looking for a textbook discussing hydrogen fuel cell design, preferably oriented towards something that could be made in a high sch...
This question here about the OSI model was closed as off-topic. How should we treat questions about data communication? What is definitely on-topic here: Embedded systems programming, including...
Someone just created the tags 208VAC and 230VAC. If think we need to create a policy about tag usage related to supply voltages. Clearly, stating the supply voltage is highly relevant information ...
I think we should try to come up with some consensus regarding how to use the new reactions feature, more specifically the "outdated" and "dangerous" options. Which kind of posts should these be us...
Let's take a look at the state of affairs for the past few weeks on this forum. For the past two weeks, some users has been posting a lot of questions, a lot of them self-answered. This is not a p...
I'm curious about the market trend of certain kind of components (specifically, 0603 ceramic capacitors) and if I should start worrying about these getting phased out. I started to write a question...
Although I joined Codidact from the beginning, I was never truly active and lost track of the development of the system and this site in particular. I've read the help and the "paper" category loo...
I've noticed that in the edit account section there is a (inactive) link to one's content on a StackExchange site. This made me wonder if it is appropriate to transfer some content from EE.SE manu...
I just felt like what if we have a separate section for code reviews. This section is strictly meant for code reviews in domains like DSP, VLSI( for instance "Verilog" programming) ,Embedded system...
This page: https://electrical.codidact.com/help/papers says: A paper is more than just a few paragraphs, and more in depth than most answers. The starting level for a paper is about a detailed a...
One of the most annoying things about stackexchange has always been the borderline fanatic post closing or duplicate marking. Another question in meta was posed some time ago about the added value ...
The Codidact team has recently informed us that it is now possible to have different rep bumps on different post types. See this new answer by Monica to the old meta discussion that created the Pa...
I recently realized something blindingly obvious that I'd overlooked for a few years - that I can generate a servicable PWM triangle wave from a micro by using two PWM outputs with timers set to sl...
It appears that a user's reputation score has disappeared from the top ribbon at the side of the user's login avatar/picture. Is this an intentional thing?
I can not upload pictures when I start a new answer to a question (I have no problem when I edit an old answer). When I click the "insert picture" button, nothing happens and I do not see the windo...
I've taken a part a broken roomba down to the PCB. I can connect the PCB directly to the battery and connect the charging cable & charger to the PCB. I'm wondering if I could post about asking...
Strange things occurring in the "papers" category: my paper entitled "the capacitance multiplier revisited" has disappeared, and my vote rating has been erased. Any insight ?
Would a question about cabling repair be on-topic? My main focus would be to learn about the proper workmanship to do a professional, not just makeshift, repair on an automotive sensor cable.
Our on-topic page currently lists homework questions as mostly off-topic, in the following manner: No interest in understanding or learning, "Just gimme da anser!" There has to be some element ...
I have not been present in the hard and very productive work performed by what must now be a pretty spectacular team for the last 10 months. Having returned and found my cherished Electrical Engin...
That may seem a pointless question, but life has taught me to be careful and to ask before any "somewhat unusual" steps. Also, despite it could be a Codidact question, I think it is also dependent...
Is it possible to add the name of the OP near each question inside the question list? Only the name of the "last activity" person appears there. For me, that would help. I would like to see somet...
I am planning to buy an oscilloscope and my applications can be some smps projects, microcontroller based projects,hobbyist projects but not heavy industrial applications.Can I ask questions like w...
For many years I have been working on unraveling the basic ideas behind famous circuit solutions. Thus I gradually managed to accumulate a collection of circuit principles and clever tricks. I have...
Are BOM/PCB assembly cost cost optimization questions on-topic here? I can see how chasing down specific parts, prices and vendors ought to be off-topic, so I don't mean outright shopping/second so...
