Linked Questions
15 questions linked to/from Which links and sites are handled specially in chat?
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What sites should have hyperlinking (onebox) support in chat?
Some sites are integrated to chat . What additional sites should the chat support?
One suggestion per answer.
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Replace links with page titles when referring to most linked sources (MSDN, Wikipedia, …)
Both MSDN and Wikipedia are very referenced documentation resources.
Would be possible to automatically replace not formated links, like:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text....
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FAQ for Stack Exchange sites
Community FAQ
For sites in the Stack Exchange 2.0 network
To see a list of commonly used words and phrases, see the glossary.
For official guidance from Stack Exchange, visit the Help Center.
Asking ...
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1answer
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One-box repositories, issue tickets and such on GitHub in the chat
GitHub links are posted in chat quite frequently, but the support of the appearance is somewhat poor:
<html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/css/...
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Chat room image instead of link
How can you post an image in the chat rooms instead of providing its link?
There should be a "How to Format" within the chat rooms as well.
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1answer
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Stackoverflow.blog posts not oneboxing
Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow blog posts are supposed to onebox, as per this meta post but it looks like anything with the .blog TLD doesn't onebox anymore. (See this chat message for an example).
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1answer
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How do moderators permanently add Site Chat Room to main page sidebar?
I noticed in some StackExchange sites that the Chatroom regularly appears in the sidebar.. but in others it does not and though it is on the help menu many users are not even aware it exists as the ...
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1answer
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Twitter oneboxing - not immediately evident where to click
First, let me state I don't use twitter, so perhaps to an every day twitter user this would have made sense.
The following is a screenshot of a onebox'ed twitter link:
Where do I click to see that ...
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Can we have “onebox” links like chat on the meta sites?
It'd be nice to have onebox or "magic" links when on meta sites. If we post a question about another question on the parent site, the onebox preview like on chat would be helpful.
For example, when ...
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2answers
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One Boxing Not Occurring in Chat
I just posted a link to a question in a StackExchange chatroom, and the abbreviated text ( superuser.com/questions/... ) was distinctly unhelpful.
And actually, that's exactly what I posted:
( How ...
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Onebox for Trello Boards
There is currently a onebox for Trello Cards. Cards look kind of like this:
It would be nice if links to Trello Boards were oneboxed also, to tell you the board's name, show its icon, and what ...
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Setup starred feed to replace oneboxing link's display text with onebox text content
Right now if you have oneboxable links, if starred, the feed panel will display this, usually, mangled and hard to read link without any indication of content. (So we lose the benefit of oneboxing ...
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0answers
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Sandboxing the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites to make it international
The content was taken from the rev. 233 of FAQ for Stack Exchange sites to test an idea shared on a comment to my answer to Help develop the site and community knowledge base in your language.
The ...
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Automatically detect the title of question from link in chat
We know the SE has a useful feature of automatically showing the title of question when a link of question is written in the body of question.
For example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/288002 ...
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Expand Amazon Smile links in chat
If I copy and paste a regular Amazon link (http://www.amazon.com/) into chat, the system will expand the link and create a preview of the product.
Many people, myself included, shop using Amazon ...
