Questions tagged [area-51]
Area 51 is the Stack Exchange Network staging zone. It's where groups of experts come together to build new Q&A sites that work just like Stack Overflow. Area 51 has its own discussion site, Area 51 Discussions. If a question is only related to Area 51, then you may ask it either here on MSE or on Area 51 Discussions (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/323571).
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No association bonus for Area51?
My Area51 account crossed 200 rep today, but still other accounts don't reflect the change in reputation. When will the changes be applied? or is there no association bonus for Area51 account?
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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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Deletion flags on Area51 questions can be cleared by deleting your own question and then undeleting it
If you post a question, and one or two other users flag the question for deletion, you can clear the delete flags on the question by deleting the question yourself, and then undeleting it.
This ...
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Verification emails don't seem to be sending from Area 51
It looks like a similar issue to Not getting any email confirmation mail from Area 51.
I hit "re-send email verification to my_email_address" for a couple of times, but I didn't receive ...
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Is Area 51 experiencing issues or are there actually no new proposals?
I visited Area 51 and, insofar as I can tell, there are no "proposals." Everything listed has been promoted to public beta.
Honestly, I'm assuming this after a half dozen spot checks (the ...
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The “Get more details” links and “Password recovery page” for the “I lost my password” option on Area 51 contact form leads to error page
This question is not the same like my recent question.
In the contact form for Area 51, we click “Account Issue—> I lost my password” option, a pop-up will be shown:
Click “Get more details” or “...
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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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"Helpful Links" should be more visible in Ask Question page, Area 51 Discussions
The text color of the links to How to ask a good question, and The help center on Area 51 Discussions Ask Question page are way too dark:
Dark enough, in fact, to be mistaken for regular text and not ...
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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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Stack Exchange site for other sports
We have Stack Exchange sites for chess and board and card games but not for other sports like tennis and cricket. Why is that?
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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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Area 51 showing wrong score/old name for Stack Overflow account
I have 2042 reputation on Stack Overflow, but when I visit Area 51, it's showing the wrong score.
(adding 162 of Area51 score)
My Area 51 page
Please see the attached image:
Edit 2: The name/...
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Where on SE to ask about computer science
What is the right site on the Stack Exchange network for computer science questions?
None of the answers I can think of are remotely satisfying:
Stack Overflow: Even if CS questions are acceptable (...
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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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Which Stack Exchange sites weren't proposed in Area 51?
Recently I found some sites that are a part of the Stack Exchange network but were not proposed. In other words, I'm talking about sites that are not established through Area51, like Super User.
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Is there a way to see deleted Area 51 proposals, to learn from what went wrong?
I asked if there was an SE site where I could ask driving questions, and I was told in a comment that someone tried to start an Area 51 proposal called "On the road", which covered what I wanted, ...
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Help Center for Area 51
Is area 51 going to have the help center? The content would be different, but I like the idea of the help center and I think we should be consistent across all of the sites.
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Flag as duplicate option on Area51
When browsing Area51, I came across a proposal which was an exact duplicate of another proposal. (this and this).
When I went to flag it, I saw there was no option for flagging as a duplicate.
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In Area51, it says I have used all five off-topic votes when I have only used four
I am following the Game Development proposal, and I have only used four of my five off-topic votes, but when I try to use my last one, it says I have already used all my votes. Why?
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confirmation mails from area51 sent with invalid envelope sender [closed]
The confirmation mail for commitments has an invalid envelope sender set. This causes it to fail sender callout verifications. If you do not want to receive bounces, just use an empty envelope sender.
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Not Receiving Email Confirmation for Proposal Creation on Area 51 [duplicate]
I'm experiencing an issue where I'm not receiving the email confirmation required to create a proposal on Area 51.
The goal is a register a Stack Exchange site for an open source community.
This is ...
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Area 51 account disappeared
I tried to login to Area 51 after a long hiatus and got:
Unable to log in:
No user found
I also notice it's now missing from my list of Stack Exchange accounts.
Instead, my Area 51 account is linked ...
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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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Why was Apocalyptic Defense closed?
That was really disappointing.
If this whole Stack Exchange thing is going to be community-driven, then one and only one rule should apply to site proposals: if one of them can fulfill the ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange site to discuss and identify possible scam websites?
I'm currently facing a lot of possible scam websites in the area of cryptocurrency investments. But there are other areas on the Internet where a lot of scams happens, too. I would love to have a ...
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Clicking the edit button on my Area 51 profile gives a server error page
I click the edit button, and a request is made for https://area51.stackexchange.com/users/edit/<my-user-id>, and the server returns with an HTTP 302 redirect to https://area51.stackexchange.com/...
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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 Area 51 login broken?
Is Area 51 login broken? I tried to sign up today and this happened:
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
An unexpected error occurred while logging in. It's not you, it's us. This is our ...
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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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Could there be a Wikipedia Stack Exchange site?
Sometimes I'm editing on Wikipedia. Since I'm very new, I still have a lot of problems. It's hard for my to find information about editing on Wikipedia.
I would like a Wikipedia Stack Exchange site, ...
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Why are so many Stack Exchange websites focused on programming?
I went through the list of SE sites and counted every one which seems to be related to programming. By my count, 40 of the 125 sites - 32 percent - relate to programming or some sort of computing ...
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Wrong Area 51 meta site URL linked in blog post
In the recent blog post Celebrating the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old, end of the post there is a link for Area 51 meta site.
The URL is wrongly mapped and it throws a security error.
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How can I propose a non-English site?
I want to propose for a Persian version of Super User (I will explain why later) so I want to create a proposal in Area 51, but this means non-English question and answers, Is this OK?
P.S: This may ...
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Is it possible to start a niche site / community in Area 51?
I suffer from a rare chronic health condition (CSF leaks) and it has two major groups in Facebook with over 7000 members, over 100 posts/comments per day. It's a very helpful community, but the ...
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Attempting to ask a question on Area 51 Meta changes my profile picture
Every time I click the "Ask Question" button on Area 51 Meta, it changes any profile picture I have to a default gravatar. Further clicks of the "Ask Question" button just generate ...
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Here is a site for "WordPress answers". Why not for Joomla?
There is a site for "WordPress answers", and it's very useful for developers.
Is there any for Joomla, Magento, Zend Framework, Smarty, etc.?
It would be very useful if they existed.
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Why don't we add a question with the same tag on multiple Stack Exchange sites?
At first I thought my question might be a duplicate of View questions with the same tag across multiple SE sites, but it's different. In fact it's the reverse.
Most of the time users encounter with ...
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Area 51: automatically detect the word 'for' in the proposal description
In Area 51, the description automatically begins with the word "For", and sometimes users, when writing the description of the proposal, do not realize this and write "for" again, ...
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Add a description to site proposals?
Currently, Area 51 site proposals can only contain their title and the "Proposed Q&A site for ..." section.
How about adding a description field where the proposal author can detail a ...
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The Area 51 lookup link redirects to the wrong site proposal page for sites that have been proposed more than once
Currently if you go to the newly launched beta site for AI.SE you'll see the:
To log in, you must have commited to the Area 51 site proposal and received the invitation email. Click the invitation ...
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Should the wording "Want to start your own Stack Exchange Q&A site?" be changed?
From the bottom of the sites page:
It feels like Want to start your own Stack Exchange Q&A site? is the wrong phrase: people cannot create their own Stack Exchange Q&A site through Area ...
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Area 51 Group Development Syntax
During the defining phase of a new proposed group, is it preferable to post questions with a specific topic, or to generalize them to show the type of question you're implying?
Example 1 (for a ...
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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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Followers on Area 51 proposal ad is different from actual followers
This is my area 51 proposal ad.
(source: stackexchange.com)
It shows 3 followers, but there are 5 followers.
What is the reason for the inconsistency?
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Interior design Stack Exchange site [duplicate]
I am wondering if there are any people out there also wondering why there isn't any Stack Exchange website for interior designers. The DIY is more DIY contracting-based and is for technical-driven ...
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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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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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Merge "area51-discussion" with "area51"
Considering that Area 51 has its own discussion place, which is also its meta site, having area51-discussion and area51 is useless. A discussion about Area 51, is still a discussion, and those ...
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Do it already, Stack Overflow in Ukrainian (uaSO)! [duplicate]
Do it already, uaSO!, it's already unrealistic for Ukrainian programmers to be in Stack Overflow in Russian.
As Ukrainian developers, we actively utilize the Russian-speaking Stack Overflow and ...
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