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How can I get a list of all of my profiles?

Changing my profile's location and clicking "Save and copy changes to all public communities" does not copy my location to all public communities. It only updates the current community. ...
Captain Man's user avatar
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How do I change my Stack Exchange/Overflow account email and use it to sign in? I expect my new email to be my signin email after email verification

I changed my Stack Overflow account email under profile/email settings and verified my new email address from my email account. However, I am unable to sign in with the new email. The old email still ...
nacho's user avatar
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Personalize your profile pop-up won't go away

This annoying pop-up won't go away, even after I personalize my profile. It can be removed with the "x" but shows up again whenever I refresh or open a new page. Is there any way I can get ...
Jasper C.'s user avatar
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"Last seen more than x ago" is sometimes inaccurate

"Last seen more than x ago" is sometimes inaccurate. Example (mirror): "Last seen more than 1 month ago", even though they posted a question 22h ago.
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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Only five communities appear in the displayed list in my profile where there should be 7 (I have 10, of which 3 are hidden)

I have joined 10 communities, but only five appear in the displayed list in my profile. If I edit the list of five, I am shown all seven. So why the restriction? The communities icon at the top right ...
Lee-xp's user avatar
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Long loading time on reputation page

When I open my Stack Overflow profile page (when logged in) it takes a long time for the page to load. The first request takes at least 7 seconds. This is easily reproducible. It happens in all ...
aioobe's user avatar
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3 votes
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StackExchange won't let me update my profile

no matter what I do, whenever I try to save an update to my profile, I get the following message: Oops! There was a problem updating your profile: This email address is already registered. If it ...
polaatx's user avatar
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Can I see other user's badge progress and/or tag progress short of doing SEDE query?

I can see my own badge/tag progress in the "Select your next badge" dialog box from the User Activity screen. For example, I can see that I'm 455/500 for a gold Copy Editor badge in ...
GratefulDisciple's user avatar
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2 answers
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What is meant by "n/m score" and "p/q answers" in profile activity page in Summary box?

In my profile activity page I see What is the meaning of those (fractional) numbers at bottom centre (and how do the progress bars under them relate to the values)
RedGrittyBrick's user avatar
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1 answer
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What is the rep bubble next to my top tag?

In the "Summary" box on my profile on Server Fault, I see a rep bubble with +20 next to my top tag: What does this number signify? I tried to search across MSE and MSO but I could not find ...
tripleee's user avatar
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Change only 'Location' in my profile and apply to all communities while not changing 'About me' section

I want to change the "Location" in my profile for all my Stack Exchange community sites, but I do not want to change the 'About me' section on each site. If I choose 'Save change just for ...
user67275's user avatar
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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 ...
quiet flyer's user avatar
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What are the additional paragraphs on the delete profile page that appear for suspended users?

Post on ruSO.meta Не переведена часть текста на странице удаления учётной записи заблокированного участника claims that in case of vising the delete profile page during user suspension there are some ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
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Only some badges showing available on Stack Overflow profile page [duplicate]

I recently noticed that on the 'select your next badge' SO popup, only very few badges are available in the dialog. I know quite a few SO users have many, many badges, definitely more than what shows ...
Ben the Coder's user avatar
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Why is my "You've earned a new privilege!" panel dimmed / somewhat greyed out?

I just earned a new privilege on SO while my privilege / tag-badge progress panel was set to show tag-badge progress. I then switched it to the privilege progress to see my shiny congratulatory panel (...
starball's user avatar
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What's the order of posts in bounty offered tab?

The order of posts in my offered bounties look like this: I don't get it, what's the sorting criteria used here? Post position Offered time first 2023-01-20 10:04:25Z middle 2021-03-15 13:55:51Z ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
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2 answers
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Can I view Saves from multiple SE Q&A sites in one place?

I have some questions saved in multiple sites ("Ask Ubuntu", "Unix & Linux", "Super User", etc.), in the "Saves" section. I've also created some Saves Lists,...
Boolean_Type's user avatar
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What *are* the restrictions to the scripts one can use on one's username?

I was intending to test out how to ping someone with a non-ASCII username - as part of the response to this post. Since it specifically spoke about non-English languages, and frankly, it amused me, I ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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1 answer
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How do I find my list of "Save this answer" bookmarks? [duplicate]

I see the ability to Save an Answer -- somewhere. Now, where are the bookmarks of Saved Answers displayed or listed for my account? I don't see them in Answers, nor anywhere else:
james_t's user avatar
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How can I post an image as a link in the 'About me' section of the profile on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]

I am changing the About me section in my Stack Overflow profile. I want to post an image as a link in it, so that when the user clicks on it, it should be redirected to my link. I’m looking for ...
Vivek Nuna's user avatar
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1 answer
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What does the "reached" property mean on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]

If you go on my profile you will see that I have "reached" 703k: First I thought it was the number of persons who: saw an answer of me saw a question of me or an edit I made on a question ...
Lenny4's user avatar
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Why is my new account on an SE site only sort of attached? [duplicate]

I started a new biology SE account and used my Google information to log in. Now, I haven't used any SE site in perhaps two years, so I wouldn't be surprised if my old account from a deactivated email ...
Jim's user avatar
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All (or some) of my bookmarks or saved posts seem to have disappeared! What happened?

Something seems to have happened with my bookmarked questions or saved posts! I just loaded my list of bookmarked questions today, and saw that the list is empty! When I go to a question I know I've ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
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How do we get a perma-link to a user profile which does not change when they change their profile name? [duplicate]

Suppose that a user of stackexchange changes their username from PurpleKiwi to FuchsiaCucumber How do we get a permanent link to their user-profile which is still valid after the name change?
Toothpick Anemone's user avatar
2 votes
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Are yearly user ranking percentages being calculated correctly? [duplicate]

According to the reputation league ranking, my account has a year rank of 3,103 on Stack Overflow: The top of the reputation league page states that Stack Overflow has a total of 18,113,362 users: A ...
Stevoisiak's user avatar
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How are badges ordered on the profile page? [duplicate]

I wonder how badges ordered on the profile page: Is it random? I couldn't see any non-random pattern.
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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0 answers
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Why was this upvote marked as `+50` in the profile page? [duplicate]

From this profile page (mirror 1, mirror 2) : Why was this upvote marked as +50 in the profile page?
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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What's the tiebreaker for top tags?

My profile on Science Fiction & Fantasy shows [tolkien-languages] as my top tag. It's one of the tags on my highest scoring question there, but I'm wondering why this tag is chosen instead of the ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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Is there any official guidance on the usage of imagery containing the Russian military marking Z?

Has SE staff issued any official guidance in regards to the usage of images with the Z on profile pictures and about me sections of profiles?
Cesar M's user avatar
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3 answers
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Is it allowed to have non-English text in the "About" section of the user profile page?

Are profile pages (about section) required to be written in English? For example, this Stack Overflow profile that I found is entirely in Italian. Stack Overflow is an English-only site, and that ...
0stone0's user avatar
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11 votes
2 answers
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If your rep drops below 10, images in your profile will continue to show, but you can't edit any part of your profile without removing the images

I used to have over 10 rep, so I was able to display images in my profile. Now my rep has dropped below the threshold, and my images are still there. But if I want to make any edits to my profile (...
Red's user avatar
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14 votes
0 answers
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Why is the Community user listed on two brand-new sites as having been a member for 3 years and 11 months?

Two new sites (Proof Assistants and Substrate) came out today, and as of now they're 0 days into their private beta. Checking on our good robot friend Community on the Proof Assistants site, I noticed ...
Henry WH Hack v3.0's user avatar
41 votes
1 answer
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Where did the "helpful flags" go?

I just noticed that I can no longer see the number of helpful flags on other users' profiles. They used to be shown for all users (only clickable when someone is viewing their own profile). However, ...
41686d6564's user avatar
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11 votes
2 answers
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Why can't I see a list of all my communities in the profile area?

In my Stack Overflow profile there is a window on the left that shows some of the other communities I'm active on. When I click 'edit', a new menu appears that contains an option called 'hide ...
Maurice's user avatar
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9 votes
1 answer
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How do I view my calendar of days visited?

I recall being able to hover over my days visited/consecutive days to reveal a little calendar of which days I was deemed to have visited the site. It looks like the profile page got a redesign ...
Cloud's user avatar
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8 votes
1 answer
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Tooltip for "Application" page

As far as I see only the "Application" item has tooltip in Settings section of profile page: Should it be removed? Or add tooltips for the rest items?
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
8 votes
0 answers
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Why is a not-hidden community hidden on a user profile page?

A user recently asked on the main Meta chat-board why the community section of this user profile does not display their Stack Overflow account. I initially just assumed that the user added the Stack ...
ꓢPArcheon's user avatar
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Spam (tobacco related) multiple accounts [duplicate]

Looks like all of https://stackexchange.com/users/23136292/tobacco-king?tab=accounts accounts are spam. E.g. multiple users found on ruSO: https://ru.meta.stackoverflow.com/a/11819/176217
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
10 votes
2 answers
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If you answer your own question will you be credited once or twice for the "people reached" statistics in your profile?

I found an answer explaining how the "people reached" statistics is populated in the Stats box in the Profile tab. Basically, if your answer qualifies, you will be credited the # of views ...
GratefulDisciple's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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How are users' tags determined?

I've looked at this question, but it's still not clear to me. Searching https://stackoverflow.com/users/ my user tags are HTML, JavaScript and jQuery. This is the case for all filters (week, month, ...
Jon's user avatar
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The user page's daily reputation calculation appears to be incorrectly counting an unupvote [duplicate]

I have now had suggestions from at least five people that this is a duplicate of one of three other posts. I read and re-read all three of those posts carefully, and they are all discussing different ...
cjs's user avatar
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6 votes
0 answers
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"View all settings pages" on the profile settings page for a narrow screen

What does it mean in the profile settings page? Tapping on this block does nothing.
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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Why the "There were no net reputation changes on this day" despite no question/answer deleted and no votes received [duplicate]

I ran across on one of my SE profile pages (mirror): There were no net reputation changes on this day No question/answer were deleted (including by roomba), I received no votes this day, I didn't ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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0 answers
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Why aren't the Community user's accounts linked? [duplicate]

When visiting the Community user's profile on any site, it doesn't have any other linked accounts. This makes navigating to Community's other profiles a bit difficult. It looks like each profile is a ...
41686d6564's user avatar
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3 votes
2 answers
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Number of questions and answers written by a user across all sites

How do I find the total number of questions and answers written by a user across all Stack Exchange sites? A user's stackexchange.com profile page's "account" tab lists the number of ...
Flux's user avatar
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15 votes
1 answer
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What are the empty posts from the Community user on the activity tab?

There are some empty posts from the Community user in its activity history: What are those? If it's something deleted should it be marked appropriately instead of leaving the rows blank?
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
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Change/edit my user icon link location?

Can I alter which page I am sent when I click my user button (the customizable icon for me in the upper right of most Stack Exchange pages)? The page I use the most is the 'network' page that shows ...
Mark Ripley's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
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How do I add education and company logo to my profile? [closed]

I am a very new user (< 1 hour). As I was filling out information on this site, I believe that I saw a section in profile about education and a place to insert a 60x60 pixel company logo in the ...
Bruce in Carrollton's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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How can I quickly jump to a specific answer when I've posted multiple answers to the same question?

It's easy to find a question of mine in my user profile by reading the titles of the questions in the Questions tab. It's similar for answers when I've only posted one answer to a question. I can find ...
41686d6564's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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When are bounties considered as active?

In my user's profile, it says that I have three active bounties. (Here is a snapshot from Wayback Machine). However, for two of those bounties, the grace period is over - so I wouldn't expect them to ...
Martin's user avatar
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