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Specific feed is being automatically removed when added to a specific chatroom
In Code Golf's main chatroom, The Nineteenth Byte, we used to have a feed posting new challenges from our sister site Code Golf Codidact, specifically the RSS feed https://codegolf.codidact.com/...
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Feeds do not seem to post updates in chat
The last feed activity in The Meta Room on Stack Overflow is from 2024-06-14. The bot has not posted about new questions in the room since then, even though there have been at least 13 more. Some from ...
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Chat RSS feed for tagged/xxx broken
When you use the tagged/ prefix for a search term in chat, you (are supposed to) get all messages with a specific tag. 1
However, the generated RSS link in the lower right corner of the results is ...
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A number of things seem to have broken simultaneously
Things that appear to have suddenly stopped working:
Posts not appearing on the front page of Meta Stack Overflow or the "Active" tab for the post's tags + RSS feeds not updating.
(As of ...
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RSS feed for starred chats does not include starred chat posts
As an example, this chatroom displays the following list of starred chat posts on the right column:
However the RSS does not include links to the starred chat posts:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Oneboxed feed post has HTML entities in the title
This post from a chat feed has HTML entities in the title:
(note that the quotation marks which are in the question body seem to work just fine)
A previous post from the same feed does not have the ...
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The chat feed reader doesn't post an entry present in an RSS feed
I bountied in 2019 these questions: a support request and a bug
Why do some feed entries not post in chat?
Missing item in chat RSS feed
and nothing happened. I guess 2019 was a bad year ...
Today ...
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Feed items in ticker feeds can get duplicated
For regular chat feeds, if a question has more than one tag for which a subscription has been made for a feed, the question still only gets one-boxed once.
However for ticker feeds the question seems ...
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Why was the feeds user renamed to "Check for incoherent ramblings and crackpotism"?
I came across something rather bizarre today, when I noticed this:
The cause being:
Upon further investigation, the Feeds user (ID -2) appears to have been renamed:
Was this intentional? Why has ...
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How can I get the RSS-feed to post from YouTube into a chatroom?
Timothy Gowers YouTube channel is releasing weekly lectures which I'm trying to get the RSS-feed to post into my chatroom here. I've tried to post from his channel and from the playlist, neither work.
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The URL for feeds in chat gets mangled when it contains spaces and special characters
I'm trying to set up a feed in a chat room. The URL has a query parameter, and I tried to stay close to what is allowed in the OData specification.
It turns out that SE chat is a bit more restrictive. ...
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Comments from user feed link to the parent post instead; confusing onebox in the chat room
Recently, we (moderators on Android.SE) started adding some users' feed to our mod's chat room for moderation purposes. After a while, the users' posts were onebox-ed as expected, but then seemingly ...
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How do I add a feed for a chatroom?
Suppose I want every starred message in a specified chatroom to be posted in my chatroom. How should I add the feed in my chatroom?
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How can I tell when a question was posted on the Recent Questions chat ticker feed?
I'm pretty sure I saw a question on our ticker feed today and I would like to check at what time it was published by the feed.
The closest I got to an answer was by checking the Feeds chat user's ...
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Chat feed posts into one room, but not another
I've been trying to get a feed up for new HNQ posts on my site, using the implementation from here.
The feed URL is https://lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me/hnq/interpersonal.stackexchange.com
It's ...
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When feeds post an instant deleted question in chat the formatting is off
In the SEDE Chatroom I have two feeds, one is the Twitter StackStatus, the other is a networkwide filter on questions tagged data-explorer.
Today I noticed these feed items:
The second item clearly ...
reneMod
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Feeds are no longer posted in chat
As far as I can tell, at some point today today chat feeds posted in various rooms stopped being posted as chat messages into rooms. What is actually the problem? Can this be fixed?
Some examples ...
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Could "News Feed Items" in chat auto dismiss when you click them?
The scenario:
You're in chat. Someone posts a question in the stack to which your chat belongs. A little box pops up in the top left with the question, stacking up to several times if more than one ...
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We need Captain Obvious back
Almost one month ago the new-question-feed of our main chat-room The 2nd Monitor posted by the special user named Captain Obvious stopped working.
There had been a short discussion
Room owner ...
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Character escaping issue kills site feed
Somebody posted a question on Stack Apps that took out the feed bot in the Stack Apps chat room with no apparent cause (discovered by Brock Adams). The feed bot is pretty important, and so are many ...
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Feeds in chat room throw error
I am trying to add feeds to this chatroom. I want feeds to update about new questions on Worldbuilding Meta with one or more of the tags I have specified. When I try to add the link below, I get an ...
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List of chat rooms that subscribed on tag
I can see which tags particular room is subscribed on. For example, Stack Overflow на русском is subscribed on russian-stackoverflow.
But on the tag page there is no information about subscribed ...
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Full-form links to answers are no longer oneboxed in chat [duplicate]
I have noticed that a link to an answer is no longer oneboxed when used in the format https://site/questions/question-id#answer-id. They are still oneboxed in the format https://site/a/answer-id. You ...
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How can I add Hot Network Questions (HNQ) to a chat room feed?
I would like to MYOH (Make Your Own HNQ) by posting hot network questions (HNQ) as a chat feed to a chat room. This offers the following benefits:
Filter out HNQ from specific sites, or equivalently, ...
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What format do chat feeds require?
I'm trying to create an Atom feed that can be added to chat. To do so, I've followed the format used by https://stackoverflow.com/feeds - I've excluded the re and creativeCommons XMLNS declarations ...
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Can a chat bot feed be made for questions tagged with [anime] tag but not if they're also tagged [identification]?
Stuff has happened, and anime identification requests have flooded the Anime, Movies and SciFi. Anime banned all anime IDs completely, but SciFi and Movies still accept them. Sometimes they get ...
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Feed for new posts in chat [duplicate]
How can I get a RSS feed for new posts in a chat room? I would like to connect my RSS reader to chat rooms that I like.
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The Feeds bot’s translate command is no longer working for moderators
Up till a few days ago, moderators in a chatroom were able to get the Feeds chatbot to translate things for us using the translate: blah or translate xx: unblah commands. This was disabled for regular ...
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Encoding issue for message feed title
Message feeds block has encoding issue with non-Latin title:
Text inside the circle should be rendered as Последние вопросы - Stack Overflow на русском Meta, as you could see after clicking on link.
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Chat feed bots seem unusually slow recently
In my experience, chat feed bots — the ones that post feed messages into the chat directly — are usually pretty fast. Our bot on RPG Stack Exchange reliably has posted new Meta posts to the chat after ...
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What determines whether a feed item becomes a post onebox in chat?
I am testing a feed that consists of comments posted by selected users. When the feed is used in a chatroom, some items get posted as intended, with the author and text of the comment:
Others ...
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Customizing user feeds in chat
Currently, if I add a user feed to a chat room, I get a onebox that pops up every time there is a user action. The onebox contains either the question or the answer referenced in the feed entry.
But ...
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Chat rooms are not receiving question feeds
There seems to be something preventing question feeds from appearing in chat.
For one example, the Code Review chat room's feed subscriptions include Recent Questions - Code Review Stack Exchange and ...
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Missing item in chat RSS feed
A bounty was set on this question on 2016-02-21 17:40:10. The bounty appears in the RSS feed. We have a chat feed that posts items from that feed, but it's missing this question (transcript for that ...
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Feeds not getting updated in ticker in chat room
We have added feeds in ticker in our chat room, as we add feeds after removing, it gets displayed. but after dismiss of ticker, we are not getting back when feeds get updated.
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Regular users can indirectly delete feed bot messages
Once more, The Nineteenth Byte has uncovered an exceptionally obscure chat bug. We noticed that, apparently, a regular user managed to delete one of the feed messages in our chatroom. I think that ...
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Why can't we add this blog feed into our chat?
After various attempts (and even once just now) to add the feeds of Lichess blog (here), which is in ATOM and should be supported, it seems to self-destruct and disappear from the feeds tab of the ...
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An RSS feed has mysteriously disappeared in a chat room I own
The Board and Card Games chat room feeds info indicates that there are 3 feeds (the tab title is "(3) feeds"), but it only lists two. I added a third feed a while ago, but it has failed to ...
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Trying to give too long a name to a dummy chat user for feeds causes an unspecified error
Today I tried to change this dummy user’s name to Undergraduate-Education Questions on Math Educators in accordance with the other dummy chat users posting feeds into Academia’s chatroom. This ...
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Our beloved Movie Reel Bot seems to have ceased posting [closed]
I saw this question from April and I wonder if something similar has occurred:
Feed bots not working?
The Movie Reel bot in The Screening Room hasn't posted anything for over 8 hours, despite having ...
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What are the limitations on adding multi-tag chat feeds?
Thanks to this feature-request and the ability to use the OR operator, we can have multiple tags and can include wildcards in tags to make broad filters in RSS feeds. In the main Sci-fi & Fantasy....
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Ticker feeds in Chat
The ticker feeds in chat are interesting, but also annoying. One feature that would make them very nice is a fade feature, where they fade away after displaying for N seconds (perhaps even user ...
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Ticker feeds list doesn't support Unicode
While looking at Japanese SO's Python chatroom feeds, I realized that the ticker feeds doesn't display the feed's title correctly.
Ticker feeds
New items from these feeds will be shown via a slide-...
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Why does my chat room report more feeds than are actually there?
According to the feeds page for V'dibarta Bam we have five feeds.
Or four. It depends on what part of the page you believe:
I wondered if the extra were an inactive or deleted feed, but I don't see ...
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Please can ticker overlays be moved to the right?
Ticker overlay feeds are useful for high-volume feeds because they don't get in the way of the conversation so much, but I think they'd do so even less if they were positioned differently:
This is ...
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Chat feed that posts links to new questions/answers by users **in the room**
I'd like to see the option to add a feed to a room that posts questions and answers by users in the room at the time of the post.
"in the room" could mean one of several things, I don't mind ...
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Chat doesn't load my feed
I have created a feed which I want to add to a room, but for some reason it doesn't work ™.
I have added the feed to a test room, but it doesn't load the messages. I have validated the feed and ...
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Bring back the chat feed autocomplete!
It's just.. cultural. This might be only affecting the morale of the folks in The 2nd Monitor chatroom, but before that chat system update that somehow changed how autocomplete works, we used to be ...
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Chat feed overlay allows question title to cover the "dismiss" link
The "new feed items" chat overlay feature doesn't play very nicely with very long question titles, as they can overlay the "dismiss" action link. This makes dismissing the message harder than it needs ...
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Do messages from feeds prevent freezing/deleting a chat room?
According to the SE chat faq:
Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. ... Rooms not worth retaining which are inactive for 7 days will be ...
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