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Reference to the Codidactyl in non-Codidact instances #1396

Open trichoplax opened 2 months ago

trichoplax commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug When viewing the user page for a deleted user, the following message is displayed, which may be confusing for a user of an instance other than Codidact:

User accounts make an excellent snack for the Codidactyl.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a user account in a development environment.
  2. Delete the user, making a note of their user id.
  3. View your own user page.
  4. Change the URL to use the deleted user's user id instead of your own.
  5. See a deleted user message, including the message mentioning the Codidactyl.

Expected behavior Hardcoded messages should be suitable for all instances, not just Codidact. Anything that only applies to Codidact should be conditional, so that it only appears when viewed from the Codidact instance.

Personally, I would also question whether we should have in-jokes at all in the user interface as the Codidact communities grow, as new users will have no context.

cellio commented 2 months ago

Agreed this should be configuration or generic. It's fine to have a "mascot" that shows up in passing, and maybe we should have a "what is the Codidactyl?" help page that we can link to from such mentions, but if it gets in the way of comprehension, we should adjust. I love the Codidactyl, but we want it to be friendly, not befuddling.

Changing this particular string is easy, but I tagged it as complexity:unassessed because I don't know about other hard-coded strings. If we focus this issue on just the user page, this should be a one-liner.