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Update to the right sidebar header
We have made an update to the right sidebar design. This update has made the right sidebar as well as all right sidebar widgets across the network to be more consistent, uniform and have easier ...
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Stack Exchange guidelines on image sharing
A question that often comes to my mind is whether/under what conditions can one use images found in the internet on Stack Exchange. Particularly the images from Wikipedia.
Whenever I use an image, I ...
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Twitter field on user profiles doesn't recognize new domain for service
While editing the profile and saving the Twitter link, we encountered an issue. The domain for Twitter has changed, and the current domain is now https://x.com/. However, the system still expects the ...
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Make SEDE queries automatically run after the captcha is completed [duplicate]
On the SE Data Explorer, anonymous visitors must complete a captcha. This isn’t unreasonable at all.
The captcha presents after “Run Query” is clicked/pressed. After the captcha is completed, visitors ...
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Cannot create new tag wiki [duplicate]
I was creating tag wikis for Physical Fitness SE today and suddenly it stopped working. When I click the "help us create it" link I get redirected to the tag info page. It's happening for ...
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"permission denied" error when running cross-site query
When attempting to run a cross-site SEDE query, I get this:
Line 1: CREATE TABLE permission denied in database 'tempdb'.
I can reproduce this with the provided examples.
While I realize it's around ...
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The Stacks Editor should open in Markdown with preview mode by default
I started a new question on Stack Overflow and the wizard form was shown for me, which uses the Stacks Editor.
The Stacks Editor showed edit text boxes, but did not show a view of the actual formatted ...
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The Stacks Editor messes up code formatting
I’ve started a new question on Stack Overflow and the Wizard form was shown to me. This uses the Stacks Editor.
When I use the code icon to format blocks of code, it adds single back-ticks instead of ...
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Short description of "trusted user" privilege lacks an Oxford comma, violating SE's own style guidelines
Company guidance says to "Use the oxford [sic] comma in sentences." However, the short description of the "trusted user" privilege says "Expanded editing, deletion and ...
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Issues with the “Question Wizard” [closed]
I’ve started a new question on StackOverflow and the wizard form was shown for me.(I never saw it before)
I’ve noticed 3 issues.
When I used code icon to format block on code, it added single back-...
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Getting "Comments on locked questions not eligible for voting" when deleting comment [duplicate]
If I click delete and then OK on a comment I made on a now deleted question, I get a strange message not related to the action I try to perform.
The usecase is this: I suggested a poster to visit help ...
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I keep getting errors while trying to add a tag description on MoviesSE
I was adding tag descriptions to those without description today on Movies&TV, and for every tag I got an error when I pressed Submit.
An error occurred submitting the post.
If I reload the page ...
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"No migration allowed after 60 days so we delete instead" policy [migrated]
It was requested that migration of questions to other StackExchange sites be forbidden after 60 days due to some issues it causes with regards to points/reputation, and it appears that this was then ...
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Stackexchange API to fetch saved posts across all stackexchange network
I want to fetch my saved posts from across stackexchange network that I have joined, is it possible? I have read the documentation on the api.stackexchange.com and it seems the api is intended for ...
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Stack Overflow Jobs is expanding to more countries
After more than 6 months of availability in the United States, Stack Overflow Jobs, powered by Indeed, is expanding to several new geographic regions in Europe. As part of the next iteration of this ...
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What moderator tools exist to control retaliatory close votes? [closed]
Several individuals with time on their hands can practically paralyze work of the whole meta.
Users should not allege close voters are mindless or malicious or otherwise not acting in good faith
What ...
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Why was my question closed for lack of context? [migrated]
I asked a probability question on the math site
Formula for Probability of rolling higher
The question was closed, saying I needed more context. I clarified a bit more, thinking that would be enough, ...
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What’s on your mind?
You. Yes, you: What’s on your mind?
When you think about the future of the network - years from now - what worries you? What makes you anxious? What do you look forward to? What might make you hopeful?...
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Put a note next to the 1 reputation when I am suspended
Many users will first learn of their suspension when they see their reputation score go down to 1. I disagree with the reasoning behind this (beyond "the reputation / privilege system forces this ...
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Why are there three ways to reach the dupe menu? [duplicate]
There are three different ways to flag/vote to close a question as a duplicate in the UI:
Flag -> A duplicate
Flag -> Needs improvement -> Duplicate
Close -> Duplicate
Admittedly, the ...
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Is reputation harder to earn today? [duplicate]
I recall seeing on another, non SE website:
Most reputation that will ever been earned on this website has already been earned. For new users, it's a slog to the top.
That is, older users with a few ...
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Uploading a WebP file ends up with error: "Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file." [duplicate]
On meta.stackexchange.com, like I'm posting this now, uploading a WebP file seems to work.
But on blender.stackexchange.com, posting the same WebP file results in an error with the following message.:
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Why is StackOverflow in Maintenenace mode but not in Maintenance Mode? [duplicate]
Nothing about on going Maintenance post here.
But on my main Browser (Firefox 103.0.3 on Windows 10) I get.
But in A private browser Window it is not Maintenance Mode or in a different Browser it is ...
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The "legitimate interests" section should to be removed or reworked to be one-click object/approve all
The current layout of the cookie setting currently allows selecting "necessary cookies only" with one click, however "legitimate interests" are not part of it. One has to click ...
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When a user is suspended, how about putting that fact underneath their icon so they're not shocked by their points suddenly being 1?
Normal people make correct inferences about the actions of others, but when I was suspended, I saw the 1 point, and was very confused. I hadn't yet read the mod message, I thought maybe my points were ...
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How to report malicious voting? [closed]
I was tried flag post, but all the flags was be denied, how can i report malicious voting? What need i to tell to moderator on flag description? I need some help.
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Why are users allowed to upvote their own Community Bot comments?
When doing my daily reviews across the network, I the often leave a pre-written, generic Community Bot comment on questions/answers.
But once, I accidentally upvoted my own Bot comment. And obviously, ...
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Feature request: author should to be allowed to see who voted his post [duplicate]
Author should to be allowed to see who voted his post to prevent malicious voting.
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Replies with SVG + JavaScript and DOM: Comment (and Request) [duplicate]
In some of my replies to questions at Stack Exchange sites I would like to add SVG images with related JavaScript codes because the replies were meant to be interactive. In lieu of this lack of ...
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Add users' deleted questions in search results [duplicate]
It's not a duplicate of Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users because I'm not only asking for the less than 1% of users with >10k rep who have the 'Access to Moderator Tools' privilege.
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Proposal to award the gold Copy Editor badge multiple times
Nearly four years ago during major updates to how the review queues worked and following discussion on the matter, we decided to award the gold Steward badge multiple times for any given review queue ...
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"Newest Questions" tab showing last active user instead of the asker
Since recently (7 Dec 2024?), the "Newest Questions" tab (/questions?tab=Newest) now showing the last active user instead of the asker.
This applies to every site.
I'm not sure if this is ...
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I am unable to upload images with size around 1MB or larger in chat rooms
I guess the official limit is 3MB. But I can't upload them unless they are less than around 1MB. I tested multiple images in different browsers. Same result.
There is no error message in the UI (it ...
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Bolded number "1" next to chat room when visiting chat.stackexchange.com on mobile
When browsing https://chat.stackexchange.com/ on mobile (Safari in my particular case), I see a bolded "1" next to the Teacher's Lounge room:
The bold "1" does not appear when ...
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Why Stack Exchange doesn't seem to care about multilingual spam? [closed]
Sometimes SE receives spam in foreign languages like this (scroll down to see). Why they don't care?
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We have a bad case of socks on ELL, please help [migrated]
I suspect there are at least eight sockpuppets operating on ELL. I've downvoted, I've flagged, I've commented but to no avail. After 18 hours of abuse, their accounts are still working, and "...
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Would it be a good idea for Stack Overflow to have Stack Overflow Fridays?
Recently on Stack Overflow's official Twitter account, there was a tweet:
What's on every developer's dream holiday wish list? 🎁✨ Stack Overflow Fridays to spend dedicated time giving back to the ...
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One-line private comment when downvoting [duplicate]
I got a few downvoted questions, and would love to know why. I think it would be really good if it were possible for downvoters to write even a few words as to why they did so.
This is not because I ...
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When is the company planning to suspend the genAI policy on the network?
The company embraces the AI hype and that's great. Together with the ethicalest and socially responsiblest AI providers1 the company is ensuring the internet is in the right hands. Naysayers will ...
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What is "Answer Bot" and what is it doing?
I found a user on Webapps SE named Answer Bot with an "AI" badge (site profile ID of -2). Here's the profile[1]:
Hi, I'm not really a person.
I'm an AI that's powered by LLM partners of ...
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Extra whitespace in Help Center titles
The titles in the Help Center articles have both leading and trailing whitespace. For example, here's the HTML from How to Ask:
<h1 class="s-page-title--header">
How do ...
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Right-column "featured on Meta" section formatting is broken [duplicate]
Here's what it looks like (Brave latest, Ubuntu 22.04) for me:
And on MSE (so this isn't SO-only problem):
The section headers look obviously misplaced vertically, almost overlapping with section ...
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The December 2024 Community Asks Sprint has been moved to to March 2025 (and lengthened to 2 weeks to compensate)
TL;DR We will not hold a Community Ask Sprint this quarter, but instead, will try using a two week sprint in March 2025.
In the previous two quarters, we have held Community Asks Sprints where all ...
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What is the reason for gaining 2 reputation points on accepting someone else's answer? [duplicate]
This question has been bothering my mind for quite some days now. When a user accepts an answer to their question, they gain 2 reputation points unless it is a self-answer. What is the reason for this?...
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How can I close my own question with reference to another post?
I’ve asked a question on Stack Overflow. But somehow I found an answer from some other post. What should I do now?
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How do I view the category to which a post was saved without visiting the saves list? [duplicate]
Whenever I come across a question while browsing the site and discover that it had already been saved and I want to know to what category I had saved it, how do I do this without checking all my saves ...
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The whois feature in TL is currently broken
There's a feature that lists and summons mods for a specific site on the teacher's lounge. Currently, it also lists staff with diamonds, which breaks inter site moderator collaboration. Here's an ...
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Right sidebar box missing padding under headers
There should probably be padding under the headers - can it be re-added? I'm using Firefox on Windows 11, and I can reproduce this both signed in and when signed out (with userscripts & uBlock ...
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Notifications are either not marked read soon or at all [closed]
I've been seeing this on Firefox Floorp & Zen Browser (all Firefox-based) for months. I just tried this: either get a new notification, mark it as unread, right > open link in new tab, then ...
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Help merging accounts [duplicate]
I am an infrequent user with two login, one tied to my private email address the other tied to my Google/gmail account. From my profile I see I have 6 or 7 accounts as shown in first attachment.
I ...
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