Questions tagged [stack-exchange]
For questions about the entire network of public Q&A sites that make up the Stack Exchange network.
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Stack Exchange network sites’ IP addresses may change in the coming weeks
From time to time, Stack Exchange makes improvements to our network infrastructure. One change we're making in the coming weeks will include new IP addresses for most, if not all, of our public Stack ...
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Finding an appropriate Stack Exchange site [duplicate]
I'd like to ask a question about a topic, but there doesn't seem to be a Stack Exchange site that's directly on point. Is there a way to search for a word or phrase across all sites, to see if it's ...
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Discrepancy in Post Counts between Local MySQL Stack Overflow Database and Data Stack Exchange Query
I recently downloaded the Stack Overflow data from Stack Overflow datadump and imported it into my local MySQL database. While attempting to retrieve the total number of posts for the year 2021 using ...
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How can I download a small data set (1 year 2023-2022) from Stack Exchange?
I want to download a small dataset for one year. I didn't find a link that allows me to download 1 year of data or the last five years' data.
I tried "https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/...
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Competing with ChatGPT Answers: An Expert's Perspective
Although I'm a moderator on two network sites who has had to deal with GenAI answers, I'm writing this from the perspective of a lower (<2k reputation, with limited access to moderation tools) user ...
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How can I find the creation date of a Stack Exchange site?
I did some looking up, but I couldn't figure out how to look it up with Google searches or if it's stated anywhere on a given site. I've also tried this terminal command: whois softwarerecs....
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Is "You need us, we don't need you" a difficult concept for S.E. leadership to understand?
Regarding the reversal of the AI generated content ban, once again I'm astonished at the self-serving decisions and actions taken by those who profit materially from this network. Alienating trusted ...
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Stack Exchange is failing its community
I guess this is very much an intervention.
There's a few policies in the pipeline - here's one, and there's another one that's not been officially announced that a good many moderators are opposed to. ...
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As of May 2023, what current communities using SE software have non-standard features or use standard features in a unique non-standard way? [closed]
TL;DR: Besides Ask Patents, CS50, Math Overflow, Meta Stack Exchange, and Stack Apps, what open communities that use the Stack Exchange software have non-standard features or use standard features in ...
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2023 Layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff (2023-05-10)
A few minutes ago, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar posted a note to our blog to share the news that Stack Overflow has made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 58 people, or about 10% of our ...
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What tag is used for Stack Exchange rules and their respective enforcement instruments?
Each site has a Tour, a Help Center and meta sites having faq where the site's purpose, workings and features of the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange system are explained. Also, there is FAQ for ...
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Partner content on the blog - what's the value of these?
The Stack Overflow blog was historically a means of communication for the company to the community, and eventually ended up being a way for the company to communicate with potential users of their ...
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The SE About page should be less Stack Overflow-focused: "The world’s largest programming community is growing"
As of April 9, 2023 https://stackexchange.com/about shows the following text
The world’s largest programming community is growing
There is no doubt that programming is the specific topic of the ...
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Where can we find a site charter/purpose that tells us the types of question on/off topic?
There's a question currently posted at What unexpected things can happen if a user runs commands expecting a text file on input lacking a file-final newline? that's closed as it's been deemed ...
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Preparing a better question: large data file (JSON from a SVG) on Pastebin.com to be run through JavaScript, AWK, and sed:
I have a task that will benefit from writing a good question on Stack Exchange - in that I think the results will be instructive in general. Of course.
There is a large SVG file already on Pastebin....
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Which sites have customized their help center homepage?
I have some ideas for the homepage of the Web Applications SE Help Center; before I start writing the draft I would like to learn from the experiences of other sites. I remember have seeing posts here ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange for A.I. Ethics and/or ethical usage?
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I was having a bit of trouble trying to figure which Stack Exchange branch to: 'find answers to' or 'pose a question' about Artificial Intelligence ethics.
Example Inquiries
With Microsoft'...
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Are there plans to switch to the current version of MathJax?
As pointed out on Mathematics Meta, Stack Exchange still uses MathJax v2, although v4 was released recently. (The answer by Davide Cervone - one of the MathJax developers - summarized some potential ...
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Demonym (nickname) for a Stack Exchange user? [duplicate]
I wonder if there is a noun meaning a person who uses Stack Exchange.
Please see this question.
What is the equivalent of a demonym, but for organizations?
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Can the compendium of SE Q&A’s be translated into an encyclopedia?
Stack Exchange has become quite the concentration of years of Socratic knowledge - that is to say, having many questions asked, answered, and peer reviewed to some degree - of the main site pages.
I ...
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Why do Stack Exchange users want to get upvoted? Are they rewarded for that? [duplicate]
Why do Stack Exchange users compete to get votes or points?
Just for the pleasure of doing it?
For public recognition?
To get job offers?
Do they receive money or gifts for it?
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On which sites can you earn the You Got Splunk! hat?
The trigger for the You Got Splunk! hat is as follows:
Ask or answer a question with a tag that includes the string "data". Your post must have score 1 or above.
Is it possible to earn ...
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Merged list of all favourites from all Stack Exchange sites
Until recently I was accessing a list of all of my starred or favourited questions via the following URL:
https://stackexchange.com/users/1309702/jimadine?tab=favorites
This would list all favourites ...
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How do Stack Exchange sites that do not require professionals work?
This is just from assumption, but the Stack Exchange websites such as Movies & TV or Anime & Manga are most likely having their questions answered by similar viewers and readers, rather than ...
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Which Stack Exchange sites were fully redesigned after their original designs were deployed?
Some sites on the network have been completely redesigned from the time they received their original site designs (a part of site graduation prior to July 2015). For instance, Android Enthusiasts was ...
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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
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Where should I ask on the SE community about a non-programming question related to google earth? [closed]
I want to ask something about Google Earth that is not related to development of any kind. Where should I ask in the SE community?
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Where can I ask for non-computer hardware recommendations?
I am looking for a good semi-professional heat press. I make custom t-shirts and bags for my business. I have been heat-pressing with an iron and the volume has got to a point where I want a machine.
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Can't log in to other communities. Only on SO (GitHub account) [duplicate]
I'm able to log in with a GitHub account on SO (Stack Overflow). When I go to other communities I see this:
When I try to log in, I don't see an option to use GitHub:
I think this is a bug, because ...
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Did Prosus acquire just Stack Overflow or the whole Stack Exchange Network?
I'm asking you guys since I can't find relevant info. Google says that the parent company of Stack Exchange Network is Prosus. Wikipedia says that Prosus only owns Stack Overflow. This is confusing. ...
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Remove Shell company's advertisements?
I reported 3 of Shell's ads:
which were shown on Stack Overflow.
This ad is offensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQSa_AVpSo,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuW4AP8M4M and
https://www....
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How can I dissolve the "SO teams" site started privately to public SE sites after some time?
I have been a member in SO communities since 2011, and I find the information here well organized and easily searchable from the Internet.
Let's say I am developing a software product called "...
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What question has the most answers on it?
Of all the questions on SE, what question has the highest number of answers on it?
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Missing code block language when using the Stack Exchange API
I managed to search and get questions with HTML body with Stack Exchange API.
I am using the following request:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/search/advanced?filter=withbody&tagged=node.js&...
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How do I access this built-in SEDE functionality to run multi-site queries?
Queries in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer are usually run over one database, i.e. a single Stack Exchange site. It is possible to do a multi-site query by fully qualifying tables (including the ...
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To what extent might scores, on my posts on one SE site, affect scores on another? [duplicate]
As my formal training in biology was limited to about 40 hours, half a century ago, in a classroom of a state school system that had been (and remains) legally banned from discussion of a concept ...
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Using Stack Exchange to look for scholarly articles and working with the scientific community
I have been part of a university for a few years now. I have learnt on my own and from my colleagues how to look for scientific papers and how the community works.
I realized I could not find any ...
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Why only 50 related tags?
I'm using the Stack Exchange API and I want to get related tags of a particular tag. Fortunately, the API provides such an endpoint (/2.3/tags/devops/related?pagesize=100&site=stackoverflow).
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How is Stack Exchange Inc dealing with current and future business with Russian entities?
I've been putting off asking this question for a while, but it came up in the comments for the question about Stack Exchange Q&A access in Russia and is worth addressing.
While I consider public Q&...
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Where has the Stack Exchange official dump gone? archive.org/details/stackexchange [duplicate]
Why do I see this message after I only download StackOverflow-Posts.7z?
I have tried to use a VPN, but I receive the same error message:
This item is no longer available.
Items may be taken down for ...
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Is Stack Exchange blocked in/by Russia?
Stack Exchange recently announced that they are not blocking Russia. However, is the converse also true—that Russia is not blocking Stack Exchange?
(I'm asking this because if Russia is not blocking ...
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Does anyone have an account on every Stack Exchange site?
Does anyone have an account on every Stack Exchange site? Also, why would anyone do that?
Bonus points for all of the Beta sites.
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Stack Exchange Public Q&A access will not be restricted in Russia
Like so many people around the world, we are watching the tragic and unlawful invasion of Ukraine unfold. Several of the discussions on Meta and in conversations with us have raised the question of ...
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Why doesn't the privacy popup go away? Can you fix it? [duplicate]
I sometimes have a popup that shows up and refuses to go.
Regardless what button I click it doesn't react. It just stays and covers part of the page. I have to resort to ctrl-shift-C to remove it. ...
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How many questions is "NaN%", what SO for Teams is a "Q&A for", and how come is it listed as a network site?
The page with the https://stackexchange.com/sites URL, amongst normal sites, returns an entry for Stack Overflow for Teams:
If this is intentional, and Stack Overflow for Teams should appear there, ...
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Highlight all subscribed sites on the "all sites" overview
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On the "all sites" overview, it would be nice to indicate to a logged-in user which sites he/she is a member of (i.e., has an account) by visually highlighting the corresponding ...
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Why does the license link take me to Stack Overflow's license page? [duplicate]
The license information in the lower right corner of every page links to https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing instead of to the site's (existing) corresponding page (for example, on the Cross ...
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Are there any (research-based) classifications of user types for sites like Stack Exchange?
In the game industry, we have the Bartle taxonomy of player types which is a way to classify users into four main categories: Achievers, Explorers, Socialisers, and Killers. I was researching if there ...
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Too many requests from this IP address [duplicate]
I am using the StackAPI library for Python to access Stack Overflow questions. I need to collect all question IDs attached with a particular tag (for example, regex).
I used the search bar on Stack ...
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There's a Windows Phone.SE Why? [duplicate]
According to 2020: a year in closing
In 2020 the number of questions posted on Windows Phone was 30, seven of which were asked and closed. The total number of questions closed that year was eight.
The ...
