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Why community bot is a moderator on the Area 51, but a bot in Area 51 discussion zone and other sites?
Per the tag wiki of area-51 and this official staff post, questions about Area 51 are explicitly on-topic here and should not be closed as "only applicable to one specific site".
Simple ...
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Area 51-- Can't receive Email Verifications [duplicate]
I can't receive email for verification in Area 51 after repeated attempts of clicking.
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Why there is no link to Area 51 discussion in all sites in Stack Exchange?
Why is there no link to Area 51 discussion in all sites ?
Are there any other sites that are not included in all sites ?
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Area 51 login/signup links broken again
The login/signup links redirect to:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=https%3a%2f%2farea51.stackexchange.com%2fusers%2flogin-or-signup%2fdelegated%3freturnurl%3dhttps%253a%252f%...
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Is an Area 51 replacement in the works?
In Starting the Prompt Design Site: A New Home in our Stack Exchange Neighborhood, there were two announcements: one of a new SE site (namely GenAI.SE) and one of a new site launch process...
We have ...
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How can I completely log out of Area 51? [duplicate]
I've accidentally logged in with the wrong account and I wanted to log out. I've succeed to log out from Stack Exchange, but when I came to Area 51 I see that I'm still logged in.
Is there a way to ...
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A forum to discuss old computers: Where could I ask if anyone else would be interested? [closed]
My computer will reach the end of its official support in five days. It's a 32 bits architecture, so I can't upgrade it. I have others, including an Apple II which belonged to my dad: 5 1/4 inch ...
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Can't register for Area 51, nor use my existing SE account (doesn't match any existing meta.SE question I can find)
I just clicked to follow a proposal on Area 51, and then confirmed my email (the usual one I use for Stack Exchange), and then refreshed my area51.SE tab. I expected that somewhere along the line here,...
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Closed Area 51 proposals show more to anonymous users than when logged in [closed]
This is what the What If proposal looks like when logged in:
That's fine, I can live with that.
However, this is when not logged in:
Same page, same browser (Firefox 107 x64). One in a normal window,...
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How do I see when an SE site was closed? [duplicate]
It was announced today that the Windows Phone SE site had been closed. The Area 51 page lists that the site was closed after 3857 days, but is there a way to see what date an SE site was closed?
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How should a new site with a good userbase *outside* the Stack Exchange mainstream get itself bootstrapped?
I recently became aware of the troubles a new site in beta was facing - they had a enthusiastic community that didn't really have much overlap with the existing SE community. They put in a lot of work ...
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Area 51: Unable to log in: No user found [duplicate]
When I click the (tiny) button to log in to Area 51, it gives an error:
I obviously have to have a user account to ask a question here, so this is definitely a bug. Could this be fixed so I can ...
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Can't sign up into Area 51
I wanted to propose a new site, so I went to https://area51.stackexchange.com/
If I click on the link "Propose a new technology site" then it shows:
Area 51 >> Login Error
Unable to ...
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Does Meta Stack Exchange reputation count for a commitment in Area 51?
As far as I understood from an old question from 2010, the Meta reputation doesn't count for the "200+ reputation" criteria in the Commitment stage of a site proposal. Is it still in this ...
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Unable to join Area 51 community [closed]
I tried to join the "Area 51" community to support a proposal, but I have problems connecting to my other profiles. I commit before joining the community and this might have been the problem....
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Area 51 reps and badge counts are still being updated for sites that graduated in 2019 or 2021
I have just noticed that the reputation statistics and the badge counts for users of sites that graduated in 2019 or December 2021 are still being updated, even though the other data are frozen. My ...
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Why is Area 51 not logging in?
I am not able to log in to Area 51, it says
“Completing log in to Area 51. You will be redirected automatically.”
When that error occurs this is my url:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/signup?...
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How can I change email address on Area 51? [duplicate]
It tells me to verify my old email and does not let me verify my new one. What do I do?
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How can I delete my Area 51 account? [duplicate]
I joined Area 51 to propose a site for identify-my-rock questions (banned at Earth Sciences). The proposal was rejected and I edited my profile with "Please delete me".
That was three months ...
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How to reopen a closed proposal, really?
We get quite a few questions requesting that Area 51 proposals be reopened. Essentially all of these turn into discussions of the merits of specific proposals that have recently been closed rather ...
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Why do negative scores of example questions on Area 51 get reset to 0 whenever someone votes to close them?
I just cast the final close vote to close some example questions on an Area 51 proposal. Those questions had very low scores, around -3 and -5.
However, as soon as the questions got closed, their vote ...
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Robert Cartaino's profile is linked with "moderator on 3 other sites" on the Area 51 page
On the Bioinformatics Area 51 page, I saw Robert Cartaino's profile in the "edited by" section. In his profile I saw that he is "moderator on 3 other sites", so I have searched on ...
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Would a Stack Exchange site devoted to military-related matters be off-topic? [duplicate]
On Area 51, there were at least two proposals. Both were deleted.
Proposals with insufficient activity are subject to removal. Occasionally, proposals may also be removed for reasons of moderation: ...
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Why is the Area 51 site no longer showing up on the More Stack Exchange Communities list?
Why is the Area 51 site no longer showing up on the More Stack Exchange Communities list?
Prior to today, the More Stack Exchange Communities list in the top bar contained a link to Area 51.
However, ...
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Are there any subjects on Area 51 for which proposals are not allowed?
I know of the following rules for creating a proposal on Area 51:
The scope must be reasonably well-defined, not too unclear (e.g. "cool stuff"), too opinion-based (e.g. "car reviews&...
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When will Stack Exchange begin accepting proposals for non-English sites again?
A proposal for a Stack Overflow in Arabic was just closed with a message referring the creator to a five year old post which refers the reader to another post mentioning (from Tim Post ♦) that the ...
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General recommendations to increase the number of questions of a site
Our site is Earth Science.
I have asked this too at our meta, but maybe you can give us some
recommendations applicable to other Stack Exchange sites and so a helpfull question here on main meta.
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Bug in Area 51 Proposal? [I follow a proposal but am not shown as follower]
I just followed the proposal for an Arabic language in Area 51, but am not shown in the followers list. This might be a bug.
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How do I check my flagging record on Area 51? [duplicate]
As of late, I have been flagging proposals on Area 51, primarily to alert moderators to proposals that have failed to meet minimum activity requirements but have not yet been closed or removed as ...
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Shog9 and Robert Cartaino are still listed as moderators in Area 51 Discussion
Based on the posts Thank you, Shog9 and Thank You, Robert Cartaino, they no longer work for Stack Exchange, and their moderator access was revoked from all the Stack Exchange sites.
However, when I ...
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Moderators on Area51 sites
I know that Stack Exchange sites need moderators.
It takes quite a long time to get 10k reputation and because of this, I want to know if this limit is the same on Area51 sites. It seems, that public ...
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What do I do with a very low quality Area 51 proposal?
Once every few weeks, I encounter a proposal on Area 51 that is obviously DOA. The proposal's scope is often nonsensical, overly broad, horrendously narrow, and/or covered well by existing sites on ...
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Does the question reputation increase apply to Area 51?
Recently, the reputation for question upvotes to the asker increased from 5 to 10 reputation per question.
On Area 51, I still seem to have 5 Internet points per question. Area 51 doesn't have ...
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Can I access Area 51 from the Stack Exchange app? [duplicate]
I'm trying to access Area 51 from my Stack Exchange app. But it is not showing any options to go.
Is Area 51 accessible from the app?
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How do I view the pre-existing community for a current Area 51 proposal?
A proposal on Area 51 was recently closed by a staff member with a comment that contained
Please do not disregard the community requirement when submitting a proposal. When you submit this proposal ...
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Why do some Area 51 profiles not have a network profile? [duplicate]
I was stalking searching some user profiles under new proposals on Area 51. I found some accounts do not have a network profile page. If we click on Network profile in the profile page in Area 51, we ...
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Unable to login Area51 for more than a year
Earlier I faced a similar issue which was solved but this time I have been facing another error.
Following screen is shown when I press on log in link:
Following screen is shown when I press on ...
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Login Issues at Area51
I don't seem to be able to login to Area51. I tried many times but get the same issue:
The URL I am getting redirected to is: https://area51.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/users/login-or-...
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Where do I get a community for a proposal? [duplicate]
For a proposal I need 200 people. My Question is simple: Where do I find them?
Is there any site, or other social network for proposing stack sites or similar to this use?
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Exact dates of stages before launch of a website [duplicate]
Is it possible to know the exact dates at which Stack Exchange websites have passed each of the development stages before being launched officially? I refer to date of proposal, date of commitment, ...
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Why aren't "minimum requirements not met" asterisks on Area 51 shown to logged-out users?
Today, I noticed that there were a large amount of proposals which did not meet the 3-day minimum requirements. Ordinarily, there is an asterisk shown next to each one that does not meet them:
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Not able to log in to Area 51
Tried on Safari and Chrome, getting same issue.
I can login to other sites like SO and this one.
Tried on a different machine and still having same issue.
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How do I sign up for Area 51 when I get a completing redirect page?
I want to sign up for Area 51 however, I always get stuck with this page, is their something that can be done about this? Is there something I am missing?
I want to propose a new site but ...
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Why was the main criterion for graduation specifically chosen as 10 questions per day?
Prior to July 2015, site graduation was basically decided subjectively by the SE team, based on the site's Area 51 statistics and the capacity of the design team. From what I recall, it was basically ...
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Can’t login to Area 51 ( Unable to log in with your OpenID provider: No user found)
I think I originally signed up with a Launchpad account, but looking at “My Logins” I see two accounts: a StackExchange one (used yesterday) and Launchpad (used Jun 28 ’18) so I suppose I created a ...
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Why is Writing SE displayed as 'Writers' on Area 51, but not on the actual site?
When you look at the Area 51 proposal for Writing StackExchange, it displays as Writers. But, when you head to the actual site, it gives its name as Writing. Is this because the name has been edited ...
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Area 51 - Where's Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Where is Stack Overflow on Area 51?
Usually, when you head to search and type something like EL&U (I wanted to check the stats), it pops up. But when I search Stack Overflow, nothing comes up. ...
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How do I log out of an account in Area 51?
How do I log out of the Area 51 site? I clicked log-in and it automatically logged me in using the account that I was using on Meta Stack Exchange.
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"No login found" error trying to log in at Area 51
I just signed up for an Stack Exchange account. I am trying to log in on Area 51, but I get a No login found error.
Specifically,
I go to https://area51.stackexchange.com/
I click on log in which is ...
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Area51 SE is not available on the DE iOS app [duplicate]
Is there a reason for the fact that Area 51 is not available on mobile? Will Area 51 be available on the mobile version of the SE app soon?
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