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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Former(?) staff member still listed as moderator on Area 51
It seems Nicolas Chabanovsky left the company? I am not sure if there will be an announcement like this one – if not, спасибо Nicholas for all the work you've done!
Let me honor you with a bug report: ...
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Which Stack Exchange site would be appropriate for physical trading card games?
There are these:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/
For questions on physical/online trading card games like,
https://magic.wizards.com/en
http://tcg.pokemon.com/
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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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Why does Area 51 grant reputation upon verifying your email?
You get 50 reputation on Area 51 when you verify your email address.
Why is this only for Area 51, and not for other sites? I assume it is to let you gain the basic upvote/comment privileges, but I'm ...
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Chat is redirecting to Area 51 (2023 edition)
Any https://chat.stackexchange.com URL redirects to https://area51.stackexchange.com.
This started a few minutes ago (as of this posting).
This occurs for all three chat servers (chat.stackoverflow, ...
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Area 51 Discuss Link Goes to Old Chat Parent
If you go to Area 51 and click on the "chat" link, it redirects to a list of rooms that seems to be parented to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com, while the parent site that is used for new ...
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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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Who is it that suggests/starts a new Stack Exchange site in Area 51?
On Area 51’s FAQ page, it states “If your area of expertise doesn't already have a Stack Exchange site, propose it!”. I’m not entirely sure whether “expertise” means something similar to “professional”...
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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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Remove "Your Own" wording from a new site proposed in Area 51
At the end of Stack Exchange sites page it is mentioned:
I know there are many ways of interpreting "own" as like mentioned by Shadow The Kid Wizard over here:
Single user can propose a ...
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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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Change the created site category on Area 51 [duplicate]
I've just created a site on Area 51 and realized that I had set the wrong category, but realized that I couldn't change it with editing.
Is the only way to delete the site and create it again tomorrow?...
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Area 51 » Login Error [duplicate]
https://area51.stackexchange.com/categories/8/technology
At here,
If you press the button in the picture here
The error appears as shown in the picture. This error continues a few weeks ago
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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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Change "90 days" to "6 months" in public beta notice on Area 51, and change progress bar speed if possible
On proposals for sites in public beta, in the top right, Area 51 displays the following text regarding public beta sites
Sites remain in beta for at least 90 days to build up a critical mass of users,...
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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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I am a user but cannot register
Under Area 51 I am listed as an unregistered user - when I hit register it says 'unable to log in - no user found'.
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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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The top bar on Area 51 is malformed
The top bar on Area 51 seems to be malformed:
For a while now, Area 51 has been using an older version of the top bar on Stack Exchange sites, that better conforms with its 2011 design. However, it ...
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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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Could we add an "announcement" function to proposals?
I recently wanted to post an announcement on my proposal on Area 51, so anyone who enters the proposal can see it. But I didn't find a way to do that; should announcements go in the "discuss this ...
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Can't login to Area 51 on Safari
When trying to login to Area 51 on Safari (15.2, macOS Monterey 12.1), it asks me to login on Meta Stack Exchange (which is expected) but the browser gets stuck on a redirect page:
In the browser ...
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What search engine software does Area 51 use?
I was on the Area 51 Stack Exchange site and used the search bar. I was confused as to why it was working so quickly and that's when I realized it was using JavaScript.
Eventually I found that you can ...
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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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Error when trying to see a revision of a proposal of Area 51 [duplicate]
When I try to see a revision of a proposal of Area 51:
(I click on the "4 days ago")
It shows me the error page:
Here's a raw link for anyone who would like to try it:
https://area51....
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Area 51 avatars not displaying
For some reason, the Area 51 gravatars are just displaying as an error.
Example A:
Here we can see that for every single user the avatars are incorrect.
Example B: My profile on Area 51 vs my profile ...
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I got an email from someone soliciting support for an Area 51 proposal. How did they get my email address, and is this behavior allowed?
I received an email from someone telling me they noticed I was a backer on a Stack Exchange site, and asking if I would be willing to back a proposal for a related technology.
The email did not go ...
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What is the fastest Area 51 proposal to reach the Beta stage?
The site proposal Proof Assistants has gone from Definition to completing Commitment in just over three days. Has any proposal (whether it managed through Beta or not) achieved this in a shorter ...
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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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Most links to old, closed Stack Exchange sites don't redirect to their Area 51 proposals anymore
A while ago, old links to Stack Exchange beta sites that were closed would redirect back to their Area 51 proposal, which would serve to inform users that the site didn't have enough activity during ...
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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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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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Preventing cannibalism from sister sites
Many years ago, there were fewer Stack Exchange sites. Right now, Astronomy is in beta and attracts questions like this one about speed-of-light. Sure, I can see why somebody would associate this with ...
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Why isn't there a "SHARE YOUR OWN CODE" community or a "TOP IDEAS" community? [duplicate]
I sometimes tried to add the solution to a problem on Stack Overflow, so once I made code myself that I tried to share with the option "Answer your own question". It was CSS code, and ...
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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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Should we reconsider the requirements for making new cryptocurrency sites?
This post by Sara Chipps says that "Area 51 lifecycle" is one of the things that SE plans to work on in the next month (June 2021), but it's not clear what exactly is going to happen.
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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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How to gather or where to find statistics on different metrics of Stack Exchange sites?
I'm thinking about proposing a pharmacology site for Stack Exchange. However, pharmacology is a tag on Biology.SE, among other related tags, and psychopharmacology & pharmacopsychiatry are tags on ...
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Pondering a 'better' model of site creation - can we encourage more generalist sites?
While the most recent round of changes were meant to improve the chances of successful site proposals, I feel it's useful to revisit it.
We're past the point of rapid growth in site numbers - and a ...
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Area 51 uses insecure avatar generation
Area 51 uses a different system for avatars than the rest of the network. While on every other site Gravatar URIs are salted, on Area 51 they aren't because it hasn't been updated (Area 51 uses a 2011 ...
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Why isn't it possible to launch a non-English SE site? [duplicate]
I'd like to launch a site in French:
https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/125462/transition-ecologique, but my proposal got blocked by a rule I wasn't aware of (since there exist foreign ...
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How can an existing site join the network?
According to an answer on Which Stack Exchange sites weren't proposed in Area 51?, several of our current network sites were pre-existing sites that somehow "joined" the network and ...
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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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How can we preserve Area 51 sites that get closed during the beta?
This is the second time I've been hit by an Area 51 site I got really involved in (Productivity.SE), being closed due to "not enough activity" (the first was Startups).
Productivity.SE was ...
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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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Improve the vertical spacing of "People reached" in Area 51 Discussions profile
In my profile at Area 51 Discussions, the alignment of the "Estimated number of people reached" label is too close to the "Posts edited" and flagging/voting history labels:
It ...
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Are general "let's discuss this proposal" threads allowed on Area 51 Discussion Zone?
A recent proposal on Area 51 has yielded a corresponding question (About Islam medical science) on Area 51 Discussion Zone, with the "question" simply a statement of the proposal's merits ...
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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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