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Will Stack Exchange be running something for April Fools in 2024?
Earlier this year, Philippe created a post on MSO stating that SE wouldn't be running an April Fools joke this year.
Admittedly, that post did end with
We hope to continue celebrating April Fools' ...
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Could we get a version of The Key for our favorite site?
The Key looks really great and all, but I noticed that it is Stack Overflow-specific - it's logo is that of Stack Overflow rather than Stack Exchange or any of our other specific sites.
I'm working on ...
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Does The Key use regular 'ctrl' keys on the keyboard?
I just realized that there seems to be a confusion about the Key.
Get this:
Normal computers use 'ctrl + c' (or 'cmd + c') and 'ctrl + v' (or 'cmd + v') for copying and pasting respectively.
On the ...
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What is this dialog about? STOP! You have one(1) copy/paste remaining
STOP! You have one (1) free copy/paste remaining.
Get unlimited copy/pasting with The Key by Stack Overflow today.
Have you checked it?
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Questions before ordering The Key
I love The Key and would like to order it but I have some questions:
The product shown has light keys. Does it come with dark keys to match the dark mode on Stack Overflow?
Can I use the light ...
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What sort of switch does the Key have?
The description of the key is described as
Our click’s volume and tone were crafted by sampling the natural wonder of song bird chirps. We run that audio data through cutting edge deep learning ...
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Does not work on Netscape Navigator 3.0
FROM: tigerjieer <[email protected]>
SUBJECT: Does not work on Netscape Navigator 3.0
NEWSGROUPS: alt.stackexchange.meta
Finally, after 20 years of suffering, StackOverflow now claims
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Is it safe to use the rubber duck? [closed]
Four days ago, I read an alarming article in Nature. It claims that
Fungi were identified in 58% of all real bath toys
and rubber ducks are explicitly mentioned in the article as a potential ...
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Could there be an option to turn the duck into a pot plant? [closed]
In my culture, the preferred metaphor for something whose function is simply to be a passive recipient of your utterances is a 'pot plant'. I am uncomfortable talking to the duck.
Could there be an ...
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Quack Overflow should also accept keyboard input [closed]
I love the new Quack Overflow. My coworkers noticed the yellow friend in the corner of their screen, explained their problems and got their solution. Or, well, at least found the source of their ...
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Stack Exchange has been taken over by a rubber duck!
I couldn't miss this now, on all SE sites:
What are the duck powers? Was anyone able to make it do or say anything other than "Quack"?
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Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?
I received a really nice SO mug as swag for the choose your own swag contest this year. Everything was working fine until this morning. Was there a patch or update or something?
Here's the relevant ...
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When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun [closed]
StackEgg! What a great invention. Probably the best thing to hit Stack Exchange since the invention of unicoins!
Very entertaining game, very fun to play. Many users have probably spent several hours ...
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Where did unicoins and unicorn powers has gone? [duplicate]
yesterday when I visited http://stackoverflow.com and http://meta.stackoverflow.com there was a banner of unicoins in right sidebar
after mining and collecting unicoins I purchased “No downvotes, ...
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What is the ratio of Schrute Bucks to Unicoins? [closed]
I have a ton of these things just lying around.
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Change Twitter followers for reputation
I have some twitter followers that i don't want any longer.
I have been using them for a while but at this point i dont feel like feeding them up with silly twits, so im considering getting rid of ...
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Unicorns and cruelty to animals [closed]
I am really concerned about the unicorns i see in the site.
Considering those extra shiny eyes or the hanging tongue, it seems that maybe some dope or drugs have been administrated to them, probably ...
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Unicorns vs ponies
The unicorn tag wiki says that unicorn are way better than ponies.
I think this is heavily opinion based and it is against the rules of the site.
My rank would be:
Pegasus, that can fly so is way ...
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Somebody to buy unicoins with bacon? [closed]
I don't understand who could even think about spending bacon in unicoins rather than eating it. But in the opposite way it looks perfect to me, i mean, spend my unicoins to get some bacon.
So, having ...
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My dog ate my unicoins [closed]
I had a lot of unicoins, but i left them unattended and my dog ate most of them.
I wonder if SE would accept a dog full of unicoins as a payment.
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How to mine Unicoins faster? [closed]
I want to earn Unicoins for free but I can't seem to find the best way mine coins faster.
There are also sometimes when I get 20-30 Unicoins at one time, and I think that there is some clue so that we ...
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What to do with Unicoin scams? [closed]
I recently was approached by a trader saying they had Unicoins for sale at nearly 1/4 of the normal retail price.
How could I resist such a bargain?
I made the trade but upon delivery of said ...
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What are Stack Overflow unicoins? [closed]
Recently I saw a widget on the Stack Overflow website which says Stack Overflow now has its own currency called "unicoins". According to this widget, a user can earn reputation, customize Stack ...
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Why can't I change my name to Jon Skeet?
I had the best April Fools' joke idea. I've been brewing it for months. And it flopped.
It involved changing my name and picture to Jon Skeet. (No, that was not the prank itself.) I did that last ...
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Disabling the April Fools chat box doesn't work
There are two options in the April Fools "chat with an expert" window:
Not now
Never
I've clicked on Never many times, but it keeps popping up. How can I hide this box permanently?
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What is "chat with an expert"? [closed]
A box just comes out of nowhere which says "chat with an expert". It happened once on Stack Overflow and once on Meta. Is this an ad? Isn't Meta supposed to have no ads?
Here's the HTML for that ...
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We're all Rebecca Chernoff \o/ [closed]
On this frabjous day, our community manager Rebecca Chernoff has graciously allowed all of us *1 to be her for one day, and one day only. And so, ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you:
We're ...
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Someone's going to have to clean this up
Wow, that was one heck of an April Unicorn's Day party. But now that it's April 2nd in UTC land, look at this place. It's trashed. There is unicorn crap everywhere. I don't know how many people OD'd ...
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The Fancy and Amazing April Fools question [closed]
I like simplicity. I like clear designs.
I like Stack Overflow.
But today, SO was offline and returned with this brand new, ugly... definitely new logo.
So what's this logo all about? That's no real ...