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Some sites are offline, but no blog or Twitter information. Is all OK?
Worldbuilding and Biology, for example, have been offline for about 15 minutes, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Psychology & Neuroscience for somewhat less. Meta disappeared for a bit, but it is ...
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This tag is hurting my [workflow]
The workflow tag has no tag wiki or excerpt, 11 questions, and is used for various kinds of workflows: those of users on Stack Exchange for many different scenarios, and even those of staff members. ...
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Don't you think that it's time for some Stack Exchange shirts? [closed]
Success!!!
This is for you Jeff. We're asking and begging and pleading (and maybe even willing to pay) for some shirts!!!! We know you've got to have some hiding under your bed on top of your PING ...
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Will CommonMark be adopted for SE? [duplicate]
An official spec for CommonMark with reference implementation was released recently.
Will these specs (with optional additions like MathJax for those sites that already have it) be adopted? There ...
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When will the new Stack Overflow badge design come to other sites?
It looks like Stack Overflow has a new box for badges on the profile page:
However, it appears this has not been rolled out to other sites, such as Code Golf. This is quite a nice design, so when can ...
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Will yearly moderation statistics be published on all sites this year, and future years?
For the last couple years, at the beginning of every new year, Stack Exchange has posted annual moderation statistics on all meta sites in the network. These posts include a full table on how many of ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 00:00-03:00 AM UTC (Monday, August 22, 8:00-11:00 PM US/EDT)
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Planned upgrades that will impact Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Network sites including Chat. All sites will be read-only for up to 3 hours beginning shortly after Tuesday, August 23, 2022 ...
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Should this site have a tag for "default tags"?
When a new Stack Exchange site is created, some tags are automatically created on its corresponding meta site. (I don't think there are any such tags on the main/regular Stack Exchange site itself.) ...
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What is the future for Imgur and SE? [duplicate]
SE relies on Imgur for hosting images and avatars on public sites. Most of the content is text, but the images are often important as well. So the part that is delegated to Imgur is a pretty important ...
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Should the [registration] and [sign-up] tags be merged, and if so, what should be the canonical tag?
Here on this site, we have two tags registration and sign-up, which mean essentially the same thing: registering (signing up) for an account on any site on the network.
Looking at the uses for each ...
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Please add a corresponding hat for casting downvotes
People will hunt for the gem watcher hat and this will lead to a decreased quality of questions. To offset this, please add hats for casting downvotes on questions that stay closed or deleted after 4 ...
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Is “stackoverflow em Português” for Brazilians only?
Why is the URL for stackoverflow em Português (or Stack Overflow em Português?) https://br.stackoverflow.com/ rather than https://pt.stackoverflow.com/?
br is the language code for Breton. It's also ...
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Maybe it's time to formally drop support for IE 11
For the most part, SE officially supports the last two versions of browsers. IE11's a bit of an evolutionary dead end, with even its successor's engine moving over to Blink.
While it gets security ...
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Let's update our "only applicable to one specific site" close reason to utilize the five available close fields!
Current Proposal:
The currently accepted answer by Catija reflects the currently preferred proposal.
Journeyman Geek, seemingly speaking for the Meta Stack Exchange mod team at the time, brought ...
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Web-based IRC for the Trilogy?
This is a followup meta topic from the blog post.
https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/do-trilogy-sites-need-a-third-place/
I tend to think that meta is the work part, while Stack Overflow, Super ...
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Why no honeypot suggested edits?
While the review audits are great and much needed, as far as I can tell they do not apply for the suggested edits queue. Robo reviewers can still approve crap and smile all the way to their badges.
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Question deletions are getting out of hand
Update: Delete votes are now limited, see Should delete votes be limited like close votes?.
Should this question have been deleted?
Why do people think functional programming will catch on? (now ...
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Favicon of Earth Science and Spanish are too similar (exactly the same in HNQ list)
The favicon is used in various places around the Stack Exchange (SE) network, to identify the site.
Currently, Earth Science has for main and for meta.
The problem I see is that these are awfully ...
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Google Code Prettify has been officially discontinued; it's time for SE to maintain their own highlighter
On April 21, 2020, Google announced that their Prettify syntax highlighter, that Stack Exchange uses, has been discontinued and is no longer being maintained. The repository has been marked read-only ...
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I'm having some [difficulty] discerning what we could use this tag for
The difficulty has 13 questions, no wiki or excerpt, and could be used for a lot of things: Having difficulty deleting crap posts, burning tags, making waffles, etc. etc. etc. There are a few posts ...
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Warning or confirmation on new tag creation
In retrospect of this massive cleanup operation, I would like to ask the community how they feel about a warning or confirmation (or just special highlighting) on new tag creation.
Everybody hates ...
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"Abusing" bounties for unlimited profit
Six days ago I put a +50 bounty on Why doesn't jQuery work in Chrome user scripts (Greasemonkey)? which wasn't asked by me, but to which I'd previously posted a pretty decent answer. Since then I'...
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Protected question notice is confusing and incorrect, especially to users with the association bonus
The new notice for protected questions looks like this:
Earn 10 reputation in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement helps protect this question from spam and non-answer activity.
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Choose to see reduced ads or not
I understand a lot of people really dislike ads and are happy to have the reduced ads privilege at 200 reputation.
Personally I've really come to appreciate SO, and in support I don't mind seeing ads ...
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Should ads that mimic Stack Overflow UI be allowed?
As a Stack Overflow user, ads like this one:
...confuse the hell out of me. I just spent 30 seconds trying to find the rest of the answers for the question I was reading before I realized this ...
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Imgur image processing takes too long
Image uploads are slow. It takes at least 6-8 seconds to upload one image (demo: https://youtu.be/laNmsiLhcFY). This is not due to upload speed, but because Imgur processing is slow (in the YouTube ...
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Will there be hats on Meta Stack Exchange?
They were on Meta Stack Overflow previous year, but since the split occurred, I would expect them to appear here, on Meta Stack Exchange, this year. Will it happen (or any discussion on it)? I want ...
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Is this [text] useful?
There’s a tag text, with 24 questions and no excerpt or wiki. It seems to be used to refer to… text, somewhere on the site. This is a wee bit broad - there are a lot of different places text is ...
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"Late Answers" and "First Posts" encouraging unnecessary actions
I've come across many posts that can only be described as okay (see examples below). They're not good enough to deserve an Upvote and not bad enough to deserve a Downvote, there's no point in editing ...
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Why exactly is *German* a requirement for a role that is India based?
Amusingly, I'm not actually sure if this goes on meta, but this is probably the place it's most likely to be seen.
I was looking through the "work here" page and looking at one of the roles -...
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Where did the Votes Tab go?
My profile page used to have a votes tab that showed me what my latest X votes were. It is not there anymore. What happened to it? Why was it removed? I looked everywhere but couldn't find anyone ...
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Can we rename the off-topic close reason label on the primary screen?
When you click on the button to cast a close vote, you get a list of options: duplicate, off-topic, unclear, too broad, and primarily opinion based. These appear to be consistent across every site. ...
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Should we permanently remove the [subjective] tag? [closed]
I am not sure the subjective tag deserves to exist:
unlike [java] or [c#] or [ruby] it is a bit of a meta-tag, describing the tone of the question rather than the question itself.
it's possible to ...
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Implications of the Help Center: "Plagiarism doesn't matter unless it's an answer"
When you actually read what's written in the Help Center, it strongly implies that only answers need to give attribution (see added emphasis):
Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no ...
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What are the top issues when it comes to low quality questions? [closed]
If a "How to ask a good question" FAQ were to be compiled, what do people here think are the top issues that it should address?
On my list are: rudeness, vagueness, spelling and grammar.
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Can we restrict the ability of users to keep changing their names?
Obviously one of the things that this site encourages is the building up of reputation which is a reflection of how the community perceives you. However, after spending a while in any given tag, you ...
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Can we get Community a hat too?
Last year, Community ♦ had a wonderful Santa Claus's hat on.
However, this year I can't see Community wearing a hat. Could we please bring that back? Although it is not so important, it greatly ...
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"Other action" in "First answers" doesn't fully complete the review
Following community feedback to the recent changes in review queues, as in this answer (and some other, very similar requests on that post), the UI team have now added an "Other action" ...
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Moderator elections in beta sites?
Per my previous question, it seems like the beta phase of sites is continuing much longer than previously. Currently, pro-temp moderators are nominated when a site is only a few weeks old, when the ...
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Why are we [merging] all of these concepts together?
The tag merging has 47 questions and no excerpt or wiki. It seems to be used for the concept of merging things together, or when talking about merging things. However, we already have more specific ...
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Is Stack Exchange safe from Heartbleed?
Is it safe to use passwords on Stack Exchange sites following the announcement of Heartbleed?
Currently, https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/214543/38765 does not list the sites being fixed.
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Ensure that all relevant elections details are available on all screen sizes
Gardening & Landscaping is running an election at the moment.
Users that log into …/elections from devices with differently-sized screens get vastly different levels of information regarding the ...
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Interface options for specifying language prettify [duplicate]
I'm the maintainer for Google Code Prettify.
Markup authors can specify the language for source code, but not markdown authors.
Are the SO admins interested in a way of doing this?
If so, might the ...
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Reconcile the 5 edits limit with a large set of updates of one's old answers
Context:
Gitolite V3 just got released (an authorization layer in Perl to manage read/write access on Git repositories).
As a result, all the old V2 documentation links I used this past two years in ...
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Do we still need the Retag privilege?
Ever since suggested edits were rolled out, the Retag privilege has been a bit... Weird. You can retag questions at any rep-level, even with no rep (or account) at all - you just need a few people to ...
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Automatic insertion of dupe-banner after just one close vote is vulnerable to abuse
I see that the "close as duplicate" feature continues to undergo changes. Unfortunately, I must report negatively on this newest one.
This time, it's that a banner is added to a question as soon as ...
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Do 23,000+ tags need tag database editors?
In less than one year, StackOverflow has accumulated 23,305 tags (as of this post).
Should higher-end moderators have an interface to rename, combine, and delete tags at the database level (i.e. ...
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How is the consecutiveness determined for the Consensus, Rapport and Harmony hats?
This is related to Why am I not getting the Harmony hat?, but it's not a duplicate of that question.
I completed 25 suggested edit review tasks where my Reject/Approve decision matched the majority of ...
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What can we do to make Community Wiki better?
Okay, what's the problem here?
It's a well-known fact that the Community Wiki feature is not well-understood.
Yet another “community wiki” clarification question
Close as community wiki
Purpose of ...
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Rename [deleted-recent-posts] to [deleted-posts-page]
The tag deleted-recent-posts was created for the pages that contained lists of a given user's deleted questions or answers, and which formerly constrained themselves to only those posts made in the ...