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Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.
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What is the tag hierarchy vision for Power User? I see nested OS versions under a main tag, but I was curious whether any of these made sense to nest as well: web-browsers firefox, microsof...
I have found three posts from one user having the same statement: I'm a computer illiterate One of these posts derived on-topic question in this site, which have two answers; the top answer m...
A frustrating situation is when a mod decides that a question is "unclear" and closes it, and yet the question is not actually unclear. Unfortunately, the close prevents anyone else from posting an...
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...
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 searched computer illiterate because I think I have seen some posts including these words and would like to copy the link to them to ask a question. Later I will provide more details on the quest...
At the moment it is not yet possible to gain the "Edits Tags Ability" naturally (making suggested edits, which is a requirement to gain this ability, has not yet been implemented, see https://meta....
A site for office suites was proposed here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277548. This proposal is still in early stages and unlikely to get enough support to emerge as a site of its own in the n...
This is a follow-up to Should we use more specific version tags for software? The referred question is about tagging software, more specifically software versions and presents the case of windows-...
I wonder if adding [windows-11] as a child of [windows] might be possible as [windows] already has [windows-10] as a child. Also, considering that the term "windows" in the context of personal com...
A term that describes frontend redirects has the following tags: web-browsers web-servers While both tags are related, they don't look appropriate as the question is not about a web browser ...
Clicking on Tags, among other tags, I see [microsoft-excel] x 7, but clicking on [microsoft-excel], I don't see any questions. What does that number seven next to [microsoft-excel] mean on the Tag...
On the original proposal for Power User, there was talk about allowing software recommendations on the site. Now that the site is up and running, I'd like to bring that request over to this Meta. ...
The URL of the site shows "powerusers", matching the drop down list of sites at the top right of the page, and the list of sites in the page footer, which both say "Power Users" (plural). However, ...
Are questions about web application such as Google Docs on topic? What about Overleaf? GitHub? Where do we draw the line between a webapp and just a website?
It seems like all my attempts to get an upvote to Q or A for this post is failed Why can't I play a YouTube video embedded on a website, in YouTube itself? Initially I thought it is something on ...
"Why an update?" you might ask. The current logo looks nice, but there are a couple of problems which could be solved with an updated logo: Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? Is th...
I noticed when arriving on the Power User site that my mouse cursor looks very similar in size, shape, and colour to the one in the logo: This doesn't present a problem for me personally (apart ...
I have rewritten this post in response to samcarter's answer. I posted, and wrote myself, https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/287106. At the time of posting, I was unaware of any cross post. sa...
On main meta, someone suggested to look into the possibility to merge our Power Users community with the community for Linux Systems to increase activity. (see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/28512...
When I tried to comment on this answer, this message popped up. {"status":"failed","message":"New users can only comment on their own posts and on answers to them."} Am I still new? My comment wa...
I just want to respond to comments like this. That cross posting wasn't mine. I had never heard of solveforum.com before! Reply to samcarter I agree completely with your paras. 3 and 4. Henceforw...
Dr. Olin Lathrop alleged Both the pictures in your question are links into Microsoft's domain, and are therefore used here without attribution. This post needs to be deleted due to gross intelle...
A moderator unilaterally deleted https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/285718, but isn't deletion overkill? Can't it be saved? A moderator can simply add the necessary citations. I don't think "a...
Just checking before posting the following. Thanks. Title Can I await Mozilla or Firefox to unearth the awry Add On(s)awry, before attempting myself? How long needs Firefox? Body Does Firef...
How do we want to handle cross-posts, e.g. posts which are completely copied verbatim from other sites? A couple of approaches I could think of: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...
Questions that specifically seek software recommendations (as opposed to asking how to accomplish a specified task) come with their own challenges that are to some extent different from those of ot...
At the bottom of my profile page, there's a section labeled "Link with Stack Exchange," but it says You can't link a Stack Exchange account to your account on this site because there is no assoc...
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 ...
I was visiting some sites recently but, that site is looking inactive but, I can't be sure cause, earlier lots of people were withdrawing lots of money from that site. I had mailed at support. But,...
Hi Power Users! The "Code of Conduct" link in the tour leads to this URL, which produces a 500 error for me. The issue is 100% repeatable. I'm currently using Firefox 88 if that helps.
Some questions, like my own In Windows 10 21H1, how do I remove the weather report in the task bar?, are specific to a given version of a product. Other questions are more generic, or apply to prod...
Recently, most of questions got lot of downvotes(Even, this didn't happen to any other Codidact sub-site). In Q&A site's questions have 12 upvotes and 17 downvotes. I think most of people con...
Hacking tools are execute from terminal. While Powerusers is for OS's Q&A. Some sample of Linux system's question is included below : How to turn on night light in terminal? How to create u...
A user suggested that Why most hosting providers support ticket systems allow text only (no formatting)? might be on-topic here. It is quite clear that it is offtopic on Software Development. It i...
Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact, where computer enthusiasts (power users) ask and answer questions about software and hardware usage! We're glad you're here and we're excited to s...
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...
