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Welcome to Electrical Engineering!

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Welcome to the Codidact site for Electrical Engineering! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A from other sites, so your community can set its own direction. Please ask questions about electrical engineering in the Q&A category and use this Meta category to discuss site policies, scope, customizations, and other matters. You can report bugs and ask for support here, too.

If you already have an account on another Codidact site, click "sign in" and use the same email address and password -- you're already in the system and don't need to create a new account. If you're new to Codidact, click "sign up" to create an account for yourself.

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 people working together to ask and answer questions -- will not change. You can read more about the vision for the platform and the features for the first release.

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Welcome and thanks, Monica. It might be good to set some basic expectations in terms of schematic diagram rather than word salad, sharp photos in case of identification questions, and inclusion of any and all relevant code in the case of firmware questions. In particular LTspice simulation questions should include the .asc file and any models that are not in the standard distribution (these are all human-readable ASCII).

Can the short list of "posting tips" be customized to the site?

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luap42‭ wrote over 4 years ago

The posting tips can be configured per-site and per-category. Unfortunately, though, there is no mod/admin interface for it yet, so we'd need to enter it manually into the database.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Yes, I'm working on documentation about the site. Even though the site framework has been set up, I don't consider it ready yet. This is mostly about lacking documentation. You can see where I started this with "Intro to this site" under HELP. I don't want to advertise the site until all this is in place. This may take a few days to a week. My day job is heating up.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

It sounds like we'll want customized posting tips that link to more-detailed help. Moderators can create the help and, as luap42 said, we can edit the posting tips for you when you're ready.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@Monica: Maybe a fourth posting tip that links to https://electrical.codidact.com/help/asking "for more detail" or something like that?