All Questions
96,748
questions
1
vote
0
answers
3
views
The "Unfollow" tooltip is barely visible for deleted followed posts
There have been some new design changes regarding the Following and Bookmarks tabs. In light of this, for questions/answers which have not been deleted, the "Unfollow" tooltip shows just ...
6
votes
0
answers
20
views
Diff doesn't take stripped HTML tags into account
Yesterday I edited this question to correct the display of something in angle brackets, <root_music_folder>. The Markdown parser thinks it's an HTML tag, it's not on the allow list so it strips ...
-13
votes
2
answers
78
views
Making a constructive workflow for new users who post "me too" [non-]answers
I've noticed (particularly on 3D Printing SE but AIUI this happens across many sites) a number of instances of new users wrongly posting an answer to and old question to bump it asking if the OP ever ...
-7
votes
1
answer
73
views
It should be possible to make edits after casting a reopen vote not count toward the reopen review
When submitting an edit after casting a reopen vote, the checkbox "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be considered for reopening" can't be unchecked:
...
16
votes
1
answer
104
views
The Overflow's content is difficult to read in dark mode
The most recent "The Overflow" edition is very difficult to read in dark mode. Here's a screenshot to showcase what I mean:
The new format looks great, it's just that the content isn't ...
8
votes
0
answers
52
views
The search bar, by default, places the cursor at the beginning of the text on small viewports
When searching for something on a small viewport, selecting the search icon places the cursor at the beginning of the text in the search bar instead of the end:
This is especially prevalent when ...
0
votes
0
answers
70
views
Why do images in questions and answers open by navigating to another URL?
It happens in all of them, but to give a concrete example, if you go to see this answer and click on the image to take a closer look, we are automatically redirected to a new URL, specifically to the ...
11
votes
1
answer
181
views
Why has there been such a huge drop in "new visits" since May 9th, 2022, across multiple sites?
The Data:
The following graphs are from today, starting from when the public beta started, and with data points plotted "weekly" rather than "daily".
Quantum Computing:
Matter ...
3
votes
0
answers
20
views
Should the [migrated-questions] tag be merged with the [migration] tag?
Right now, there are two tags on MSE that are broadly about migration (i.e. migrating a question from one site to another):
The migration tag is currently on 1,265 questions (not including this one). ...
8
votes
0
answers
39
views
Upvoting your own comments is possible in site-migrated posts [duplicate]
I know this might be a trifle, but I wanted to mention this in case this is unexpected behaviour. I recently got a question migrated from Server Fault to Super User. I didn't have a user created in ...
2
votes
0
answers
29
views
How are badges ordered on the profile page? [duplicate]
I wonder how badges ordered on the profile page:
Is it random? I couldn't see any non-random pattern.
18
votes
2
answers
135
views
New stacks editor discards all contents
The new stacks editor destroys content in the most drastic way possible. It seems that if HTML tags are used the whole content is discarded.
It happens when stacks editor is enabled and you have ...
10
votes
1
answer
105
views
Is there any way we can experiment with site design locally, or in some kind of sandbox?
There's been movement at the station with regards to site design for beta sites, and Stack Exchange staff are asking for feedback in meta posts, like this one at Spanish.SE. I'm just wondering if ...
8
votes
2
answers
137
views
How can I find posts with particularly large code blocks in a non-code-based site?
From time to time in Space SE a question or answer about a calculation will need to share a significant amount of tabular data, say 100 or 1000 lines. It needs to be forever available to future ...
0
votes
0
answers
56
views
Badge progress broken? [duplicate]
When opening the 'Next badge to track' dialog in my profile, the badges are roughly sorted by my progress so far.
However, the badge progress of Marshal on one of my accounts is currently at 4/500, ...
12
votes
0
answers
61
views
Banners clutter search engine results
I am not sure under which exact circumstances this happens, but when doing a Google search this morning for "Warning: use -cacerts option to access cacerts keystore" I noticed that banners, ...
4
votes
0
answers
24
views
Questions migrated to other sites incorrectly show as "closed" instead of "migrated" in search results
When a question is migrated to a different site, the copy on the original site (the migration stub) has "[migrated]" appended to the title. Here's an example.
On the question page itself:
...
5
votes
0
answers
46
views
Can the "Add Another Answer" button have its own draggable pop-up too?
If I recall correctly, there used to be a browser pop-up after clicking/pressing the "Answer Your Question" button. Now it has been changed to an in-site draggable pop-up:
Can the same be ...
1
vote
0
answers
157
views
Is there interest in adding a "visual glossary" to the glossary wiki (so we can better know the names of things when we discuss them) [duplicate]
I have been in several discussions/exchanges about SE that have been severely impeded because we spent much time and energy trying to figure out what literally each other was talking about.
We didn't ...
-14
votes
1
answer
93
views
Suggestion: exclude the author from the pool of edit review candidates to limit bias? [duplicate]
Sometimes I suggest an edit even on an SE site on which I have few reputation points, just to improve readability. In such cases the edit awaits review by a user with more reputation.
But here's the ...
6
votes
1
answer
124
views
Is the post body of the Stack Exchange data dump sanitized?
I am building a project based on the Stack Overflow data dump.
As per Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE the Body of Posts / PostsWithDeleted is given as rendered HTML and ...
2
votes
1
answer
73
views
Remove Introductory banner for signed in accounts over a certain age?
I noticed today that this banner appeared again on my front-page:
I recall having removed the banner several times after I understood how the site works many moons ago, yet it keeps on reappearing ...
8
votes
0
answers
34
views
Reputation gains for Teams not vertically aligned in daily summary in achievements dialog
In the achievements dialog, the reputation gains/losses per site per day are aligned vertically, but for Stack Overflow for Teams the icon is too large, which pushes the '+12' in the screenshot below ...
15
votes
1
answer
93
views
The ability to unfollow all
Looking at the occasional new post to an old question that I've followed, I realise that most of the posts I'm getting pings from I'm no longer interested in.
Having been over-enthusiastic at pressing ...
4
votes
0
answers
92
views
Where would the question "Roughly how many people are typically on the seas at one time?" be on-topic?
Is there a Stack Exchange site where the following question would be on-topic?
I was thinking about the reasons why NASA launches rockets by the coast, and one of them is that the ocean has less ...
24
votes
0
answers
163
views
The Bridge chatroom is struggling with reopening after the browser has been closed
In The Bridge chatroom, me and a number of other users have the problem that when we close our browser (for me it's Edge 101) and reopen it (for example, when rebooting our computers or signing out of ...
7
votes
0
answers
52
views
Markdown formatting problems in the Help Center article "How do I search?"
In the Help Center article How do I search?, there seem to be a few Markdown formatting problems:
In the section "Boolean Operators", the subheading "OR operator" is not rendered ...
23
votes
1
answer
212
views
Many API requests to /questions with filter parameters are failing with status code 400 errors
For some questions, using a filter parameter appears to break the API, causing it to return a "400 Bad Request" status code with the following payload:
{"error_id":404,"...
11
votes
1
answer
139
views
Improving migration quality
We have usually the same statements against more/simplified migration paths like stated in this question:
the question is low quality and should rather be closed
the question doesn't belong on the ...
85
votes
6
answers
3k
views
Improvements to site status and incident communication
TL;DR:
Starting on the 8th of June, 2022, our status page will be updated automatically, bringing us closer to our goal of better communicating outage statuses with our community. The URL https://...
-14
votes
3
answers
219
views
Is it ok for a moderator to join a private WhatsApp or Telegram group with users from the same site they moderate?
All SE sites already have chat rooms and meta sites to discuss things related to the main site. However, some like-minded users can sometimes create parallel groups on WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, ...
-33
votes
2
answers
177
views
Introduce a rule: When questions are closed as "off-topic", the moderator who closes must not do so without also proposing a better place to ask [duplicate]
Back in 2011 and 2012, SE was different. These days it feels as if more than half my questions get shut down as off topic, and of those, only half are done so politely and helpfully. Here's the latest ...
-12
votes
0
answers
98
views
How do we reach out to users for an academic study? [duplicate]
For an academic study, a team of researchers is looking forward to reach out to Stack Exchange users. The purpose of our research is to understand how personal and professional background of ...
6
votes
0
answers
108
views
Long site names shown in the visible communities in the Profile tab are not truncated, resulting in inconsistent left-column widths
When users have accounts on sites with long names (for example, History of Science and Mathematics) and have them displayed in the visible communities list in the Profile tab, the width of the left ...
3
votes
0
answers
63
views
Link to candidate you voted for on election page not completely working
In the "Your final votes" section of election pages, when you hover over the name of a candidate you voted for, the mouse pointer seems to suggest you can click on it, but nothing happens. ...
6
votes
0
answers
91
views
Moderator missing on election overview page
We have three moderators on Spanish Language Stack Exchange. Yet if you look at the election page, you only see two of us:
Why isn't Charlie shown in the results of the first election? That election ...
-7
votes
1
answer
107
views
A moved question lost tags [duplicate]
I wrote a question on a Stack Exchange site, only to find out that a few hours later, it was moved to another site in the Stack Exchange network.
It's OK, but when the question was moved, the tags I ...
3
votes
1
answer
48
views
Same First Answer reappears in queue after being deleted
I just opened a First Answer in the review queue on English Language Learning. I switched tabs to read the question and gloss over the other answers. When getting back to the answer, it had been ...
2
votes
0
answers
62
views
When going back in the browser to where you've added a comment - the comment is missing [duplicate]
If I'm on an SE question page, and:
Add a comment to the question or to an answer
Visit another URL on the same browser tab
Press back
the comment I added is missing.
This is not a new issue, I've ...
5
votes
1
answer
112
views
Why does the URL to an answer include the question ID?
On Stack Overflow the link to an answer looks like this
https://stackoverflow.com/a/<answer-id>/<question-id>
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/69119825/819887
Out of curiosity:
Why was ...
6
votes
0
answers
49
views
Disable "First Questions" Queue for those who have spent all their Close Votes
When a reviewer has used up their daily close vote quota (50 on SO), the "Close Votes" review queue is no longer available to them and does not show up in the "Review queues" ...
3
votes
0
answers
44
views
Are all undesigned graduated sites getting their design? [duplicate]
As of recently SE has hired new developers to make site designs it appears:
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Others?
There are many more sites that have lost their beta labels, and graduated since SE stopped ...
18
votes
1
answer
269
views
With new designs planned for some sites, are there plans to tackle the backlog?
I recently became aware that Ethereum and some other sites are getting new designs, comprising of a logo, background colors, and textures. This seems an excellent start to things, especially with ...
8
votes
0
answers
67
views
Markdown reformatting is broken if a list item starts with a block element
The new/stacks editor, when switching from source mode to Markdown mode, breaks alignment of list items <li> if it begins with a block-level element (<blockquote> or <pre>).
For ...
-2
votes
0
answers
108
views
Is there a good reason the various Stack Exchanges are not alphabetized in the grid view on the "all sites" main page? [duplicate]
The order of icons on the https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=grid page appears quite random, and makes searching difficult. Why are they not organized in some useful manner?
ADDENDUM:
Several ...
5
votes
0
answers
60
views
Suggested edits on answers show the author of the parent question instead of the answer's author as they used to [duplicate]
In this suggested edit on an answer it shows the user that asked the question above the revision and the user that proposed the edit below it. The answer was posted by a different user and that is not ...
5
votes
2
answers
82
views
SO Dataset query to retrieve questions, related answers and comments with a specific question tag
For a small part of my master thesis I need to retrieve a dataset from SEDE that contains all questions as well as the related multiple answers (and if possible also comments) with the tag "text-...
66
votes
3
answers
7k
views
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #1214: Dalmarus
We have been on a journey to revamp and improve the /contact support experience - it has moved back to the Community Team, we hired dedicated folks to do it, and switched systems more than once by now....
11
votes
1
answer
142
views
Is the accept/bounty reminder still shown after the Activity page revamp in 2021?
Back in 2019-2020, there was still an accept/bounty reminder that was shown on the user's profile page (despite the possible layout bug): Alignment issue with the accept reminder message in Activity -&...
21
votes
0
answers
127
views
"You don't have the permission to use this type of flag" when casting a spam flag
Today I attempted to flag a question as spam on Stack Overflow; however, it was deleted the same moment as I cast the flag. The UI shows a popup
You don't have the permission to use this type of flag
...