Linked Questions
69 questions linked to/from New Post Notices are live network-wide
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Question closed as duplicate with <empty link> and also shown as "Possible duplicate" [duplicate]
When Community marks a question as "Possible Duplicate" and at the same time the Question is closed as exact duplicate, the link is missing from the 1st notice.
Examples:
Where are my starred ...
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"Highly active question" banner text has a couple of stray asterisks [duplicate]
The banner text for protected questions currently reads:
Highly active question.** You have enough reputation to answer this question. The reputation requirement helps protect this question from ...
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Request to move hold, close, and lock notices to the top of posts [duplicate]
TL;DR
I am requesting that historical lock, closed, and on hold notices be moved to the top of questions, just below the title.
Background
There are a lot of locked questions on Stack Overflow, and ...
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Specify again which Community bot process deleted a question [duplicate]
In the days of yore (i.e. before last Monday or so), on questions deleted automatically deleted by Community, one could see which process caused it to be deleted, e.g. RemoveDeadAbandonedQuestions. ...
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"This question was migrated" seems placed much more prominently than is warranted [duplicate]
See this question on Unix
The first things each visitor reads when seeing this question are:
The title
A message that the question was migrated 8 years ago
The actual question
This seems really off ...
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Odd duplicates link for questions that were closed as duplicates a long time ago [duplicate]
I occasionally notice this odd duplicate notice, but only for questions that were closed a long time ago. Apparently there was an update that changed the interface, changed how closing questions as ...
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Question flagged as duplicate, but links to duplicated questions not shown [duplicate]
The question in question: SQL Server and connection loss in the middle of a transaction
Maybe a bug?
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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The "loop" has arrived. What does the community think about it?
According to plan, SE Inc. has released a lengthy blog post about "the loop", and their vision of a new "community feedback" system. Or something:
TLDR; We’re going to be sharing our product ...
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New Post Notices rollout on Stack Overflow
New Post Notices have been launched network-wide. Please post all new feedback, bugs and feature requests to the new announcement post.
As has been previously announced, we have been working for some ...
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Distinguish close votes by reason
Even though a question may be closed by receiving 5 close votes, the votes do not necessarily need to agree. I think this is a good behavior, but recently I voted to close a question for being an ...
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New onboarding for review queues
The Public Platform team is continuing to work towards improving the review queues and we’re here today to announce a new onboarding experience for the review queues.
In the product discovery phase (...
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How could we improve our planned post notice improvements?
Megan has written a post on the Stack Overflow blog about changes that are planned/upcoming on the Stack Exchange platform.
I've seen a bunch of discussion about it on chat - but it feels like having ...
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How does duplicate closing work? When is a question a duplicate, and how should duplicate questions be handled?
Questions can be closed as duplicates.
When are two questions considered duplicates?
Which question is the duplicate?
It's a duplicate. What do I do?
Should I edit the question?
Should I answer it?
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Question Close Updates
This week we rolled out a series of changes to improve parts of the question close workflow. You can read more about the details of these changes here.
For context, the overall effort to improve ...
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