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 importing Q&A from other sites, so your community can set its own direction.^[1] We've set up the following categories:

• Challenges: post actual challenges here -- golf, bowling, KotH, etc, whatever y'all decide is in scope.

• Sandbox: you can post your draft challenges here to work out any kinks before you post them as challenges. Answers are disabled in the sandbox; use comments and edits to refine the challenge, and when you're ready, copy the challenge to a new post in Challenges. (An easy way to do this is to edit, select the body markdown, copy, and then paste there.)

• Q&A: post questions about golfing and bowling and so on here -- things that are on-topic but are not actual challenges.

• Meta (this category): discuss site policies, scope, customizations, and other matters here. You can report bugs and ask for support here, too. Some initial scope discussion happened in the community proposal on Codidact Meta; please use this meta category to continue and refine those discussions.

Some things can be customized; please tell us what you want:

• Category descriptions (what you see at the top of the list of posts). I took a stab at this for Challenges and Sandbox, but you can probably make it better. Markdown is permitted.

• Community description, for use on codidact.com. See the others there for models.

• Posting guidance, for each category. What should show up in that box of tips at the top when someone clicks "post" in challenges? Markdown is permitted.

About that logo: that's temporary. We didn't want to block the launch for lack of art, but something better will be coming. Sorry about the inconvenience, but we thought you'd prefer to have something now.

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.

We are still developing the platform on which this site runs. We'll continue to add features, fix bugs, and respond to user feedback. 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.

If you see something that needs attention, please flag it. If you run into problems or have questions, post here on meta. Reputation will eventually be replaced by more specific stats (like how many answers you've posted and roughly their total score), and a system of abilities (coming soon) will grant privileges based on your activity on the site.

We don't have on-site chat yet, but there is a Discord server for Codidact communities. Pop into the "access-management" channel and check off the communities you want to see chat rooms for. (This is so you don't have to wade through rooms for sites you're not interested in every time you visit.)

Welcome aboard!

posted about 4 years ago

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4y ago

Monica Cellio‭ staff

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