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The fourth highest voted CGCC Meta question asks that SE increases reputation for questions. This is now status completed across the entirety of the Stack Exchange network. However, I notice that i...
Welcome to the Codidact site for Code Golf (and other coding challenges)! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without i...
Code golf, being about exploiting things, often brings about many questions about edge cases. Since we don't want each challenge to have to deal with all problems again and again, it makes sense to...
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...
What sort of loopholes are assumed to be disallowed in any challenge on this site? One loophole per answer, please. Vote up answers if you want them disallowed, and down otherwise.
I feel it'd be a good idea to require, or at least heavily encourage, that challenges include an example, ungolfed, readable solution in a non-golf language like Javascript, C, Rust, or Python. Th...
Currently, the posting guidelines for Code Golf are the defaults on Codidact. The pre existing guidelines on SE are the following: The main points of discussion are: What would we like to ...
Should sandbox posts give rep? On one hand, keeping this feature motivates more people to use the sandbox. On the other hand, allowing people to gain rep twice for the same content seems wrong in s...
What input/output methods do you think should be allowed/disallowed while code golfing on this site? What guidelines for input/output methods do you think should be in place? One method per answer...
Currently, the leaderboard is useless on alternative-scoring challenges. In order to make the leaderboard more flexible, I propose the creation of two new tags: "lowest-score" and "highest-score"....
As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...
As we start on building a new community here together, we're bound to find some sticking points. Those might be bugs, new features you need, things you need support with... whatever they are, the C...
Since there have been some discussions about the use of GCC extensions, I decided to make a default-rules post about it. How should we deal with compiler extensions to languages?
You might have noticed that challenges now show a leaderboard in addition to the table of contents. This is something this community has wanted for a while, and now, thanks to user contributions a...
Over on codegolf.stackexchange.com, we have numerous meta posts outlining loopholes answers can't break, validity of output/input methods and other rule-type posts. Some examples: https://cod...
How should we deal with golfing libraries when scoring entries? Continuation of Is my extension-like library allowed to be used in answers?, the answer to that question seems to be a "yes", now we...
Reactions were just released! See the main meta post here for the details. Currently, the default reactions look like this: Now, I would argue that none of these fit for Code Golf - so what rea...
A while ago I wrote an answer in C (gcc) to the FizzBuzz challenge. Now I've found a shorter solution for the same compiler, which however uses a completely different strategy. Now I wonder if I s...
What are our rules for function submission? What constitutes a function, and what makes a submission valid? Language agnostic answers are allowed.
I have proposed that we shouldn't use nonfree languages to compete in cops-and-robbers challenges, but this proposal needs some demarcation. Matlab, Stata, LabVIEW all have finite free trials. Bat...
I'd like to make a challenge that involves the use of a microcontroller, specifically, a challenge to read any 4-bit Gray Code from 4 IO pins, and convert it to binary. Simple introductory type cha...
How should we deal with flags / command line options when scoring entries?
Code Golf seems like a fun idea to me, since I'm a programmer by trade and "language lawyer" nerd as a hobby. But every time I checked the code golf site on SE, I dismissed it as nonsense, because...
Here is what the top of the feed for the Code Golf Challenges category looks like currently: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <i...
Codidact allows you to define three special types of tags: topic tags: these are treated as ordinary tags in all respects except that they're styled differently so they stand out. You can see...
We seem to ask a lot of questions in Meta, which sort of defeats the purpose of the Q&A category. Is it intended for subjective quesitons (of which this site gets few), or requests for tips, or...
Today, I have posted my first challenge in Code Golf. I have made the Job in 202 byte. Someone in comments, have changed variables name. e.g: From rot to o, and this renaming have saved 2 bytes. ...
Somewhere Else, there was a long-standing rule that to answer a challenge, you couldn't use languages, language versions, or features that were created or introduced after the challenge was posted....
Instead of the code-golf-tips tag, could we tag "Tips for golfing" questions with tips and code-golf instead? They can still be searched for, so I don't see a reason to make a special tag to repres...
I see the Sandbox as a vital part of challenge design. When I visit the Sandbox I'd like to be able to show only proposals that are not finalized, so I can focus feedback where it is needed. In th...
When editing my profile, I see: Link with Stack Exchange You can't link a Stack Exchange account to your account on this site because there is no associated Stack Exchange site from which to ...
In this request (not really a feature-request but still tagged so anyway), I'd like to have detailed wikis on tags and maybe usage information on them too. Currently, these tags have usage info in...
I have this challenge in Code Golf and I wonder if I can repost it here for more users to come, and also continue making these since I actually like them. Can I post this challenge to Codidact?
This is a feature-request post consisting of 2 actions for a reason... There's this thing that's been bugging me for a while in Code Golf CD. If you go to the tag page of the Challenges catego...
Recently a flag came to my attention on this post: https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/280372/281943#answer-281943 It is a well-intentioned answer to the challenge, but unfortunately it is wrong, ...
On most Codidact communities the posts list has a "Random" button among the sorting buttons: The only exceptions are the Codidact Proposals community, and Code Golf: This suggests that it is ...
I'm raising this on our local Meta first, rather than the main Codidact Meta, because I don't yet have the Edit Posts ability so I can't tell what problems may exist. Hopefully some of you who have...
What is random defined as on this site? How are answers allowed to handle random chance?
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 not a golfer, I know, but I do have wanted to make a programming language back then. The name is BMPL (Builder's Multi-Purpose Language) and is currently a library I made in C (clang). It's not...
On my challenge Looping Counter there are several entries like this which contains a function which needs to be called with the right parameters to give the correct output. In this particular case,...
Just curious, but this might help other users, so I'm placing at Meta. A popularity-contest is a non-object winning criteria challenge that is based on having the highest scored answer of the chal...
Lundin just suggested in a comment under another question that I tag the challenge Looping Counter as kolmogorov-complexity. Now I'm not sure if it actually qualifies for that tag, for the followi...
There's a small problem with the leaderboard: It seems to be recognizing the first <code> block in the answer rather than the first <pre><code> block in the answer. The byte co...
I've now posted on Codidact Meta How should a Codidact public API work? I'll still be taking into account any discussion here if you have Code Golf specific thoughts, but for general API discussio...
I've recently started experimenting with hiding some of the sections in a challenge, using an expandable <details> tag. This seems to have some advantages, but I'm interested to hear how peop...
Over on the Code Golf StackExchange site, there is a meta consensus that answers can be scored in fractional bytes if there exists such an encoding method. So, to quote the linked consensus questi...
I suggest we have some status tags for Sandbox. In particular, one like "status-finalized" instead of manually (and therefore inconsistently and not searchable) changing the title to say "[FINALIZE...
I think there should be a standard set of tabs to use in Sandbox to indicate that a post has been turned into a Challenge, and possibly for other Sandbox-specific status issues as well.
For challenges that require a input, what is the maximum a solution has to support, if not further specified by the challenge author? Lets say the input is a string, how long can of a string has t...
