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On the 20th September 2025, Codidact communities experienced a period of slow response or complete unavailability which took several hours to resolve. This is what happened. Incident The culminat...
We've had some issues with site availability and odd bugs like some people not being able to vote or being signed out unexpectedly. This is an update on what we know so far. Summary We've been...
Our current Terms of Service have been in place, with very minimal changes, since we started hosting Codidact communities back in 2020. Five years later, we’re due for a few updates and clarificati...
The Codidact Foundation was founded on the principles of community-first and freely available knowledge for all. Those are the values that we continue to uphold today. The principles of community-f...
Incident At 00:49 UTC on the 4th October 2024, Codidact communities unexpectedly became unavailable from the web. This outage lasted for 15 hours and 30 minutes - most of that time was waiting for...
Our articles of incorporation state the following objectives for our foundation: The objects of the Company are to carry on activities which benefit the community of people throughout the world ...
We've recently been having some trouble with the uptime of the Codidact Network, with the entire network going down and becoming unavailable for stretches of time. The most egregious case was from ...
A few weeks ago we asked for feedback on a new way of developing community proposals for our network. Thanks to your feedback we made some adjustments (and also a couple small code changes we real...
We recently deployed the Abilities system, replacing our old and rusty reputation-based privileges system with a shiny new granular, activity-based system for granting abilities. We spent months wo...
Given recent controversies on various platforms involving AI-generated content, which have resulted in some attention being directed towards our platform, we wanted to clarify where we stand when i...
We've seen many requests over time for some way to customize what you see on the list of questions in a category – finding unanswered questions, hiding closed or low-scoring questions, or building ...
We've made a small update to our privacy policy related to a third-party library. While editing, we also restored a link that had been accidentally left out of the original document, causing some c...
It's time for the next edition of our Contributor Spotlight series, in which we highlight community members who contribute to various aspects of our project, as a way of showing appreciation and re...
Happy new year from the Codidact team! We have a bunch of updates to share about the server migration, platform changes, and new contributors – and we'll check in on the roadmap we laid out to see...
This is the next installment of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting ...
Ever since we got set up with bank accounts, one of our priorities for our new funding has been to migrate our servers. For context, all Codidact communities are currently running on a single serve...
This is the next installment of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting ...
This is the second of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and say...
A while ago, we mentioned that Codidact has been improving its own infrastructure. However, the post only mentioned infrastructure in very broad terms and did not really go into details about plann...
This newsletter was sent to our email subscribers and is being reposted here. Hello from the Codidact team! It's been a while since we sent out a newsletter (sorry!). We want to share some updat...
As a way of highlighting contributions made by our community members, this is the first of a hopefully ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as ...
Something we've been lacking on the Codidact project thus far is a clear development roadmap. Various people have goals in our heads, and some of our GitHub issues have priorities set, but that's ...
Thank you to everyone who has made donations to support Codidact already! We are grateful for your help and your confidence in us. We'll be reporting on how we're putting those donations to use -...
Ever since we formed the Codidact Foundation almost a year ago, we’ve been trying to get our financial situation sorted. As a community run non-profit, our intention has always been to avoid the sh...
Hello from the Codidact team! We're here with another update from our corner of the Internet. Platform We've made a lot of improvements large and small since our last newsletter. First, we fini...
Code Golf is not a typical Q&A community. Code golf is a form of competitive programming -- somebody poses a coding challenge, and people try to solve the problem using as few bytes of code as ...
Hello again from the Codidact team! We're here with another progress report. Communities Our communities continue to grow, some more slowly and some more quickly. On many of them we're seeing q...
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...
Hello from Codidact! We're here with another batch of recent news. Platform Since our last newsletter, the team has been focusing on bugs and smaller features, including: Search is now inli...
Hello from Codidact! We have lots of news about our organization, our communities, software updates, and some award nominations. Organization We are delighted to announce that The Codidact Found...
We are delighted to announce that The Codidact Foundation is now incorporated as a non-profit organization! We've incorporated in the UK as a Community Interest Company (CIC), a type of corporation...
Hello from Codidact! This past Friday was Codidact's first birthday! We're counting that from the day that luap42 set up a Discord server to discuss building a new Q&A platform. One thing led...
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...
The following announcement was sent to subscribers of the Codidact announcements mailing list on August 10, 2020. It has been reformatted here. Hello from Codidact! We have a number of updates to ...
Our network now has eight sites (plus Meta), and we hope to see many more as we continue to develop both our platform and our communities. As we've worked with communities to build the sites we hav...
This was previously posted on the forum and then the project wiki on 2020-02-02. Now that we have this blog, I'm reposting here for more, err, visibility. Codidact's goal is to enable communities ...
The following announcement was sent to subscribers of the Codidact announcements mailing list on June 17, 2020. It has been reformatted here. Hello! Thank you for following our project to build a ...
The following announcement was sent to subscribers of the Codidact announcements mailing list on May 4, 2020. It has been reformatted here. Codidact, the open-source Q&A platform: by the commun...
