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Bolded number "1" next to chat room when visiting chat.stackexchange.com on mobile
When browsing https://chat.stackexchange.com/ on mobile (Safari in my particular case), I see a bolded "1" next to the Teacher's Lounge room:
The bold "1" does not appear when ...
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Multi line chat messages are now limited to 10k characters?
Since the beginning of chat, multi line chat messages enjoyed the freedom of not having limit, or more accurate, they could reach around 2 million (!) characters.
However, as of few days ago, I ...
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Chat rate limit appears to be gone
Right now, you can post things in chat without any rate limit.
Proof:
(Notice the timestamps. I use an userscript but it's unrelated)
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When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth, how do I use chat? [duplicate]
When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth (for more information from the OP), how do I use chat?
Do I:
create a new chat room specifically for that question, or
use a chat room ...
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How to move a chat under another stackexchange site?
I wanted to open this chat under mathoverflow but instead it got opened under stackoverflow. How can I move it under mathoverflow?
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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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Why is there an "Access level changed: Access now read-write" in my chat reply log?
I see on https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/44764/franck-dernoncourt?userId=44764&tab=replies&StartDate=2024-08-01&EndDate=2024-09-01:
Access level changed: Access now read-write
Why ...
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Can moderators chat in gallery chat rooms? [duplicate]
When reaching 1k reputation, user gains the create gallery chat rooms privilege, which states:
A gallery chat room allows anyone to enter, but only specific users may talk in the room, as determined ...
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If a comment URL is pasted to chat will the message be retained if the underlying comment is deleted?
Let's say I paste a comment URL such as:
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/100303/what-are-christian-responses-to-graham-oppys-argument-for-atheism-from-naturali#comment284517_100303
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Bot is unable to access site from GitHub Actions [duplicate]
Since a couple of weeks back, a chat bot I run is unable to access the site, specifically when run from GitHub Actions.
I sent a question about this using the "contact us" form a couple of ...
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The correct use of chat rooms, for new users (improve visibility and description)
This publication is not related to the chat rooms created or derived from the comments on question and/or answer posts.
Maybe this question is bad for old users who already know how to use the ...
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What is Stack Exchange doing to fundamentally fix the recent and ongoing chat disruption through serial starring of messages?
Many chatrooms right now have someone or something methodically starring every single recent message, disrupting the starboard messages and making stars effectively useless because they're on every ...
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Why is starring a post still allowed for read-only users in gallery mode chat rooms?
The recent mass star-trolling incident made me realize that any registered user can star any message in read-only gallery chat rooms they don't have any write permission on.
This doesn't really seem ...
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Debugging links that don't display correctly in chat (without making a big mess) [duplicate]
In Politics's Agora chat room I posted this text and the display was unsatisfactory because the links didn't show nicely.
I expected something like this (except with text dashes instead of the ...
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View chat mentions across Stack Exchange sites
Is it possible to view chat mentions across Stack Exchange sites?
Sometimes I'm doing something and I hear that sound that means somebody replied to me and it's in some tab of some window, where I ...
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What determines "last seen" time in chat?
My chat profile says
last seen 38m ago
What does that mean? I can think of many possibilities:
it's the last time I was in a room;
it's the last time I was in a room, open in a browser window;
it's ...
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Can one view who visited a chatroom, and if so, how?
One view the list of users who are currently in a chatroom. Can one view who visited a chatroom in the past (past = before they left the chatroom), and if so, how?
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Who is Dave and what is he doing in the chat?
As discovered here, there's an Easter Egg in chat, triggered when trying to set a negative timeout for a chat room. It shows a funny error message:
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
So, ...
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How can one search for some text in one's deleted chat messages?
I've had a few chat messages deleted by a mod and feeds in some chat room. I am looking for a few sentences I wrote in these chat messages. How can one search for some text in one's deleted chat ...
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How can one see who deleted a chat message?
Example:
How can one see who deleted a chat message?
I couldn't find the information in the history page (mirror, mirror with the entire history). I am interested to know how to do it for my own ...
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Why is the "Last version before deletion" much shorter than the message I see in the "Message history" right before the deletion?
I see on https://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/64322151/history (mirror, mirror with the entire history) that the "Last version before deletion" is much shorter than the message I see in ...
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What am I supposed to do when I get what is probably the "requires external JavaScript" error for the chat domains and SEDE?
I'm suddenly getting this error in my main sites (like SO and MSE)
Meta Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source....
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What're my options for 'data preservation' for SE chat?
Inspired by reddit deciding to purge their chat history with no warning(for the love of dog, don't!) and a current project of trying to back up the prompts of a defunct bot (and searching through chat'...
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Chat Ping Notifications seem to be missing from inbox [duplicate]
I was trying to get an unread notification on my spare account for some screenshots. I am logged into the network, and was on recently enough to @ autocomplete
I've tried pinging, superpinging, and ...
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According to chat, Meta Stack Exchange was born today!
I noticed today this chat room here on Meta Stack Exchange chat domain.
The room has been automatically created yesterday. This is the standard protocol for new sites, e.g. see this transcript, it's ...
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Why is there a pink line in the chat textbox?
Sometimes I notice this:
There is a pink line, in the top of the textbox. I don't remember if always in same position, I think it's always on top, but horizontal position changes.
It might be the ...
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Possible bug--why is a recently-frozen chat room not showing on front page of chat rooms, sorted by "activity" ("show frozen/deleted rooms" selected)? [closed]
Specific sub-site where I'm noticing this: Aviation Stack Exchange
Possible bug--why is a recently-frozen chat room not showing on front page of chat rooms, sorted by "activity", with the &...
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How can I invite someone to chat? [duplicate]
I've been using SE for years now (specifically mostly Aviation SE) and still have no idea how to "invite someone to chat".
(Edit: if it matters-- and I'm now realizing that it might-- these ...
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Why am I stuck at entering a chat room?
When I try to join a chat room in a web browser on a laptop running Linux, it is sometimes (and now often, or almost always) stuck with message "Loading [chatroom name]. Just a second". I ...
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Who can see "deleted" chat rooms? What is the difference between a "frozen" and a "deleted" room?
I have a series of questions about "deleted" chat rooms. Likely answers might include: a) Anyone, whether logged in or not. b) Anyone logged in as an Aviation (ASE) member. c) The creator ...
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What is the exact program logic so that a chat user is 'pinged' using "@joesmith" in a chatroom?
I would like a definitive program logic description that takes into account all factors below to determine whether or not a chat user is 'pinged' using if I posted a message using "@joesmith"...
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Why do I not have the Talkative badge with 47 messages and several have stars?
I noticed a badge (Talkative) and it seemed to me I should have been awarded it. Especially, since I had been awarded a similar Hat (Verified) during Winter/Summer Bash 2022.
The talkative badge is ...
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Error in reputation points from Stack Exchange and main site account deleted [duplicate]
A few months ago I deleted my main Stack Overflow en español (SO.es) account with around 4.5K reputation.
I have created an account again and when I see my reputation in SO.es I have 250 points.
And ...
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Can you appeal accidental chat suspensions?
I recently was accidentally suspended in the Winter Bash chat (about two weeks ago).
The reason for the suspension was that another user flagged my comment (I requested deletion as it had a spoiler ...
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Visibility of frozen and deleted rooms for users below 10k?
I have looked into the FAQ-proposed post: Is there a list of SE chat privileges, and the minimum reputation required for those privileges? (I will add a link to the current revision, too).
I was ...
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Using blockquote in chat doesn't work when it's part of a text block [duplicate]
In the chat, when using a blockquote markup after a line of text, the blockquote doesn't render.
For example, if I try:
text:
> quote
I get this:
What's the correct way to use it in this case?
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My chat profiles were not merged when my accounts were merged [duplicate]
I recently merged my multiple accounts. All my reputations, badges, chat ping notifications, privilege notifications, etc. from my duplicate account were moved to my primary (original) account. But my ...
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What's the reasoning behind the availability of edit history for a message in chat but not in posts (for regular user)?
In chat we (as a regular user) can see a complete history of edits to a message, even made a few seconds apart.
But for a regular user (non-mod/staff) there is no history of edits to a comment in ...
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Can I unstar a message if I'm the room owner? [duplicate]
Can I unstar a message if I'm the room owner (RO) by clearing the stars (assume that I only starred)?
Is that possible?
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How do I "undo" my mobile chat preference?
Although I am given notice that I can change this option in my profile preferences, I can't, for the life of me, figure how that is done, exactly. Can anyone tell me?
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In a chat room, what are the full mechanics of being "in the room"?
In a chat room, what are all the mechanics around being listed as "in the room" or not?
The various states of being "in a room"
I know of at least three states that a chat user can ...
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Is it possible to start a chat with a user? [duplicate]
I'd like to start something like a private chat room and invite a user to it to discuss possible research. Is this possible on Stack Exchange?
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Start a chat with OP before reaching the 10+ comment mark
I was trying to solve someone's question and due to a language gap, they were unable to describe it properly. I know that the "let's continue this on the chat" message and link auto adds to ...
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How to see the parent message of a reply in mobile chat
How can I see the parent message of a reply in mobile chat, like the grey highlight in the normal chat?
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How do chat cooldowns work? [duplicate]
If you type messages in chat rapidly enough, you'll start to get a cooldown:
I've been writing a chatbot library recently, and handling cooldowns is something that I've found a bit difficult. This ...
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Why is there no image pasting functionality in chat rooms yet?
I find it extremely cumbersome & slow to save images on my desktop or copy/paste screenshots into Paint to then save them, just to be able to send them to a user in chat.
It's particularly time-...
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Can't edit chat messages in the new - at least for 2016 - moblie interface [duplicate]
I can't edit chat messages as in the instruction menu (using the new interface; looks a little out-of-CSS but that's cool). I think they are not available. I know that Message response options symbols ...
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Why can't I star this chat message? [duplicate]
I tried to star this chat message but the star immediately goes away and I get a message "It is too late to undo this operation". Staring other messages works fine.
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I can get an already-logged-in window clicking on a post link in chat, but not in another post. I have to re-login a lot; by design? (Safari private)
I use private browsing if/when I use macOS + Safari.
When I right-click a link in one SE post to another SE post and open it in a new tab I must log in to SE in that tab all over again. If I don't ...
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How can I find an old frozen chat room, rather than create a new one each time?
Some time ago, upon mutual agreement, I created a chat with another user to ask for advice which would be off-topic in the Q&A page. Is there a way I can keep track of this chatroom? I tried to ...
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