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839 questions linked to/from Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
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Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less "hotness"!
Some of you may have noticed that we've been making some changes to the Hot Network Questions on the back end over the last week or so. I'm here announcing our first round of changes to how the HNQ ...
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Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns
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We have done a bunch of work following your feedback - just look at all those status-completed tags on the different answers here!
The top suggestion was to do something about the badge ...
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Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?
Stack Overflow has been wildly successful. And maybe in some ways too successful.
I am concerned that Stack Overflow is being inundated by a stream of low-quality questions from users who are ...
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Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]
Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges
We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out ...
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New Feature: Community Review Tasks - Now in Beta
Please post new bug reports, feature requests or discussions as individual questions tagged with at least review in addition to the requisite
And thanks for all the great feedback so far!
We are ...
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Support for OpenID ended on July 25, 2018
TL;DR: Signing up or logging in via OpenID is no longer officially supported from any of our sites.
Stack Overflow was an early and strong supporter of OpenID. We built our sign-up/log-in flow around ...
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Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate
My feature request (or anti-feature-request perhaps) is the following:
Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate.
For those of you who know "Fawlty Towers", the whole issue of a visible accept rate ...
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Congratulations to our 29 oldest beta sites - They're now no longer beta!
If you're a user on a long-toiling beta site that's been waiting 7-8 years to get out of beta, this may be the post you've been waiting for.
The 29 Beta sites that are 7+ years old no longer have the ...
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Custom Filters release announcement
After an extended alpha period, we are pleased to announce the release of Custom Filters (formerly known as Custom Question Lists).
Custom Filters provide a rich UI for building more tailored views ...
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Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments
Ask yourself how many times you typed the following in a comment:
[meta](https://meta.stackexchange.com)
Me, personally, I'm sick of it. Can we have some data.stackexchange.com-style "magic links" ...
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Stack Overflow technology makes me write bad answers
Update: After all those years I came up with the idea, how to make Stack Overflow a friendly and helpful place.
Today I had some time and felt like writing a relatively good answer on Stack Overflow; ...
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Question title that doesn't describe the problem
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Pointing out that thread's popularity is a direct result of programming community interest in said subject, and that someone likely stands to become rich and/or famous by solving the ...
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Now live: A fully responsive profile
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As of 2021-10-21T18:05:38+00:00 this is now live across the network. If you find any issues, you can post them as answers on this question. Try to give some details about your browser and ...
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Operation 'Split, All The Metas!' Shall Commence On April 16, 2014
Update 2014-04-17 04:47 UTC: Stable, with some odds and ends to clean up
The main MSO/MSE sites are stable, but there are plenty of corners left to sweep. For details, see: The Status Of The ...
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What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?
Right now the front page Popular tab is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said in podcast #18, it is "a self-fulfilling prophecy." But this is not intentional, ...