Questions tagged [stack-overflow]
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Get Community involved in the close process
It's been noted that the Stack Overflow close vote queue has a few questions in it. More generally, it appears as though the Stack Overflow community cannot keep up with the volume of questions that ...
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Edit post without any change
I click to edit a post and without making any change I clicked Save instead of cancel by mistake and it accepted.
Now it is showing my name in revision list with no changes.
and as hims056 ...
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Create suggested edit audits with random formatting
A common type of bad suggested edit that we all hate is one that adds random formatting.
At the moment, all suggested edit audits are based on randomly replacing some sequences of words by other ...
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Who wrote the Microsoft case study about Stack Overflow?
I just happened to notice this case study (archived), published two years ago. It explains how Stack Overflow is using ASP.NET MVC to gain high performance, fast development and easier testing and ...
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Should there be a flag condition for people "changing the goalposts" on questions
I have an issue with the behavior of some users on Stack Overflow. A couple of times now I have found that when answering a question, (and often after a long stream of "That didn't work") I find that ...
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Should Stack Overflow be featured?
Browsing the Hot Network Questions, I noticed that "Today's Featured Site" is Stack Overflow:
Given that Stack Overflow's traffic is greater than that of all other SE sites combined, is it ...
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Show Views Count Next to the Questions on StackOverflow's Mobile UI
I would to propose a small UI tweak to the current version of StackOverflow's Mobile-friendly optimized site for displaying the number of views next to the question.
To illustrate this better, here ...
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What happened to Stack Overflow Android app?
I had Stack Overflow app on my phone. When I got my new phone, Stack Overflow Android app wasn't transferred because it wasn't in Play Store. When I search "StackOverflow Android app" on Google, it ...
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Audits that are incorrect
I just failed an audit for attempting to close a duplicate question.
The audit was for the question: https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2393046
I was going to mark it as a duplicate as I was ...
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Blurry text on Stack Overflow with Chrome
There is a bug with Chrome (and probably other WebKit browsers) on the Stack Overflow website.
When trying to open the More menu in a tag-related search, the popup is all blurry. This is usually due ...
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Meta SE header banner contains the old Stack Overflow logo icon
This is the MSE banner background:
Note the Stack Overflow logo contains 6 overflowing bars.
Here's the current Stack Overflow icon:
DISCREPANCY ALERT!
All out-of-date icons:
Stack Overflow - ...
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Is there a way to know how many total lines of code Stack Overflow has produced?
Recently I saw an infographic called Million Lines of Code and I think it would be really cool if Stack Overflow could be on it. I am sure there are thousand upon thousand lines of code the Stack ...
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Close vote review queue reorganization proposal
There is a problem with the close vote queue that it seems it won't ever go away. There are always proposals to increase the number of allowed items you can do a day, but that alone won't help, as the ...
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Long title in New Stack Overflow Feature dialog obscures close button
All Stack Overflow sites have an orange 'New' button next to the site logo in their top bar if there are new features to be discovered. If the title is too long, the close button (X) is hardly visible,...
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500 reputation drop - where did it go?
When I visited StackOverflow today I noticed a sharp drop (exactly 500 rep): https://stackoverflow.com/users/81179/christophed?tab=summary ...
The strange thing is I can't pinpoint exactly where it ...
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Some URLs don't give the page not found error but error 404
I've noticed that in SO sites some URLs don't give the standard error "Page not Found" with the waffles but a 404 error.
For example these URLs:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/
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Stack Overflow forbids usage of the word `help` in question about CLI `--help` option
A question title I wanted to submit got rejected because it ended with help?:
How do I get typer to accept the short `-h` as well as the long `--help` for help?
I was told:
Your question couldn't be ...
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Make Tags even more helpful
I noticed that on SO many users would ask a question but forget or don't know that they need to provide more info (e.g. about setting, environment, etc.). To better elaborate my point here is an ...
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Difference in display between visited and non-visited links in review menu
On all Stack Overflow sites (English and non-English), there is a difference between how links are displayed in the review menu in the navigation bar, depending on whether you visited them or not.
On ...
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What will be the migrated blog.msdn links?
There are many posts referring to https://blogs.msdn.com and we see below message.
If you were looking for MSDN or TechNet blogs, please know that MSDN and TechNet blog sites have been retired, and ...
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Too much horizontal space on mobile
On a mobile device, the responsive design mostly fits a single page, but the "Post as guest" pushes out and increases the horizontal space for the whole page.
In the image above, the red ...
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Snippet CSS content is corrupting the console display
I have encountered a bug in the Stack Overflow snippet interface. I have created a div and wrote some css in the CSS section for the same. I noticed that the div CSS content is affecting the console ...
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Can we use ` to recognize when the asker post too much code in comments?
I notice with new users when I ask something like "please post your controller code" they will almost always copy and paste it into a comment. Can there be a way to look for large chunks of code (say ...
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Stack Overflow pages take high CPU in Chrome when opened from restored session until visible
I recently noticed that with a freshly re-opened Chrome window (I have Chrome set to re-open my last opened tabs), all the hidden Stack Overflow question tabs are eating up nearly 100% of a CPU core ...
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The "delete" feature isn't working on my account on IE and Firefox browsers
The How do I delete my account faq points out that this link:
is available to folk who haven't asked a question and who have at most one contribution.
As you can see, I have the link, and when I ...
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Problems when pressing "accept" or adding comments?
I always have problems using StackOverflow from home for some reason. The issue is:
Often clicking on an ACCEPT link, or an ADD COMMENT link may take a long time to work, or often not work at all ...
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Discrepancy in Stats for StackOverflow's Top Users by Week, Month, Quarter, or Year
There is a discrepancy in members stats (position/ranking) shown for the StackOverflow's Top Users by Week, Month, Quarter, or Year on the Stack Exchange Leagues web page. The listing incorrectly ...
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Does StackOverflow automatically filter what I see on the homepage?
I'm trying to work out if there are vastly more questions on web development than on other topics, or whether my view of the homepage is being prefiltered- or both.
When I log onto the home page, I ...
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Create a test for members below 3K reputation in order to be granted access to the close vote review queue
Background
We've heard varying reasons as to why the Close Vote Review Queue is not declining. One of those most notable reasons is that the queue is not fun to work on, but the prominent reason that ...
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Can’t access Stack Exchange sites
I can’t access sites in the Stack Exchange network like serverfault.com, stackoverflow.com, and superuser.com from my home network. I can access these sites from my mobile so I wondered whether my ...
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Weird Logo at bottom
I was reviewing the close votes and meanwhile, I saw the following where the Stack Overflow logo is popping out of the footer at the left bottom and remains there even if you scroll up or down.
System ...
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What is the purpose of the "this page" link in the teststackoverflow
When reading this post, I came to know about teststackoverflow.
In this page, there is a link named as this page, when clicking on that it didn't respond any. Inspect on the element the code was ...
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Move chat footers on all sites to align with chat room boxes
Please align the footer of the chat websites such that it is aligned with the content of the chat room selection page.
The footer is currently left aligned and looks odd.
This is how it looks ...
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How has the number of Stack Overflow users changed over time?
I am curious to know if there exists any detailed information about how the number of users have developed since the launch of the Stack Overflow webpage until now. More specifically the number of ...
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Can't get Data Explorer results to agree with StackOverflow close vote queue size
I'm messing around with Data Explorer and having some trouble getting results that match the Stack Overflow close vote queue size displayed on /review.
The review page says the current queue size is ~...
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How are votes calculated on Stack Overflow
As far as I understand SO keeps votes in a separate table and calculates the post votes based on that data.
So DB query can look like this assuming votes can be 1/-1.
SELECT SUM(value) FROM votes
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Do Stack Overflow answers require original content?
I just answered a question on Stack Overflow and it left me wondering if it was a "good" answer. I know that my answer works and I use it in my own code, but all I really did was quote the relevant ...
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"An error occurred submitting the question" in Stack Overflow
For a few weeks now since I registered my account on Stack Overflow I have not been able to post questions or answers.
I have gone through similar/duplicate questions here on Meta about this issue, ...
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How many questions in the close queue have not been viewed in the last week?
Given:
The close queue is very large and not much progress is being made.
A bad question that no-one sees is not a real problem
So how many of the questions in the close queue are not being seen by ...
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How is load forecast / monitored for Stack Overflow?
If not commercially sensitive, what requests/s peak does the site currently handle?
And how do you forecast load? Do you have such a thing as a peak to average ratio? And if so, what do you use?
What ...
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UI - Reputation graph has a smaller gap for a certain period of days
The gap between days is smaller for a certain period of days
And it's reproducible in multiple user's graph
Update
Since it seems using the lib highcharts
I searched one of their official demos
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Code snippets goes blank if I click on them
I've recently noticed that if I click on the code snippets (even for scrolling horizontally), the code itslef goes blank.
I'm actually accessing StackOverflow through Mozilla Firefox 72.0.2 (64-bit) ...
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500 Error for "The results are in! See the 2018 Developer Survey results."
There is a news announcement banner at the top of Stack Overflow, but clicking this link (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/) displays:
Error.
An error occurred while processing your ...
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Triple-grave blocks show differently on mobile
On the mobile site, the following code block is displayed as a single line.
This
is
one
line
On the desktop version of StackOverflow, it shows as multiple lines. This SO answer uses a triple-grave ...
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Bug in Tidy in Snippet
In simple words, when there's a code like this:
<img src="http://127.0.0.1/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PreviousArrowsLikeACatPagenJewelryPentagramsSilverWiccanNecklaceBracelet.png" alt="...
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Intercept certain tags to support sites which are born from Stack Overflow?
IMPORTANT: the difference between this proposal and others previously posted:
the proposal is addressing only those technology tags which have their exact SE sites already. The complete list: ...
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reputation graph rendering issue?
I was just looking at my reputation page on SO, and noticed it is not redered properly.
Here's a screen shot:
As you can see the "reputation per day" graph on top is only partially rendered and it ...
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How to watch tags across more than one Stack Exchange site
How do users watch any given tag across multiple Stack Exchange sites?
For example, to watch [bash] or [awk] I watch the tag on Stack Overflow. However, it appears I must re-watch that same tag on, e....
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Stack Exchange API, access token request
I've done the OAuth process with Stack Exchange and I have my access token.
I'm trying to perform this request https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-posts#order=desc&sort=activity&filter=...
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'Hide Snippet By Default' option is not working with a mouse click
On Stack Overflow if you try to add a code snippet the last option with a checkbox on the left labeled as Hide Snippet By Default isn't clickable with the mouse when using
full view. There is a minor ...