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Can we get a <title> for the Hat Dash leaderboard?
The Hat Dash leaderboard currently has a blank <title></title> tag.
Can the page get a title, e.g. <title>Hat Dash Leaderboard - Winter Bash</title>, like the other pages?
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Can profile pictures be aligned straight on the Winterbash leaderboard?
On the leaderboard there is a fixed width between the rank and the profile picture, as they both have a fixed padding in CSS.
Can this be adjusted to account for the fact that single digit numbers ...
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Can secret hats get a description on the leaderboard as well?
On the leaderboard there is a description in a tooltip when you hover over a regular hat, like so:
When you hover over a secret hat you see this:
On the winterbash homepage there is a bit more ...
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Hat dash doesn't work on mobile?
I got a notification saying
You earned the right to run fast and jump for joy on Winter Bash!
But it requires a spacebar, which I don't have available on mobile. Nor do I have a cantina.
I noticed ...
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Expose moderator-only and required tags in SEDE
The API has two methods to get a list of required tags (the gray ones) and moderator-only tags (the red ones):
required tags
moderator only tags
That means there must be an enumeration (or two ...
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Please allow users without the close/reopen votes privilege to see the full details of close reasons
Let me first establish what I'm not asking about:
I know that there are posts that don't show a specific close reason to anyone when three different reasons were chosen.
I know that users who don't ...
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Julia syntax highlighting
Since the syntax highlighter is now highlight.js it would be great to finally get some syntax highlighting for Julia code on Stack Overflow and other sites that might need this tag. Julia is one of ...
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Stop guessing/auto-detecting a language when you KNOW it will be incorrect
The problem: SE asks Highlight.js to autodetect the language when it knows there isn’t any optimal/correct choice for us to make - resulting in very poor outcomes.
Disclaimer: I say this as the ...
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Improve the help center page on reopening questions to not point to Meta Stack Exchange
The questions are getting closed quite often in all Stack Exchange communities, and many users (new users in particular) look for help on what it means and how to reopen them.
Current State
The Help ...
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Can we update the help center article to indicate that there are more exceptions to the general rule besides the comments only lock?
The post notice for a Policy Lock has a link to this help center article https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/locked-posts.
This page states:
In most cases, a post which is "locked" cannot ...
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Remove Stack Exchange mobile app download buttons from emails
Why are the Stack Exchange mobile app download buttons still appearing in emails? This screenshot:
Confirms that. These two posts all say that the Stack Exchange mobile app is no longer supported, ...
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Rename "Favorite" vote type to "Bookmark" in VoteTypes table SEDE
Over at SEDE, in this query, it shows the vote type (or what should be the vote type) "bookmark" as "favorite":
Can we update that to say "bookmark", since favorites are ...
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Can we disable the "Start reviewing now" button on the stats tab when one does not meet the criteria to do reviews?
I recently joined a new site, and had a look at the review page. I currently don't have enough reputation to be able to do any reviews, which is clearly indicated on the review page.
If I then visit ...
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Update the "How to Answer" page to explicitly state that linked resources, not just sites, can be taken down
The How to Answer help page has the following section, which mentions that links to resources can be unreachable or be taken offline permanently:
Provide context for links
Links to external resources ...
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Expand LQ review comment for "me too" non-answers with advice about "follow post" feature
The "follow post" feature is convenient for users having the same problem as asked about in the question.
Currently, the system generates the following comment for those who post non-answers ...
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Please catch no alt text in the automated question review process
When writing a question, you now have to submit the question to go through an automated review process before being allowed to post it. If the review was successful, it'll give you this message:
Our ...
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Filter the score of the questions on the homepage before loading them
At the moment questions on the homepage are loaded by the top N most recent and then ones with a score of -4 or less are filtered out. This doesn't make much difference for a user who is logged in but ...
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'Improve this question' in Reopen Votes review queue should lead to an edit inside the queue
When reviewing Reopen Votes, there are two ways to edit the question: the 'Edit and Reopen' button at the top right, and the 'Improve this question' button in the post notice:
When choosing 'Edit and ...
GlorfindelMod
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Are there any plans to roll out Dark Mode to non-English Stack Overflow sites?
Dark Mode has now officially launched on Stack Overflow, and the linked post indicates it will become available for Meta Stack Overflow (when?). It also says other sites in the network probably won't ...
GlorfindelMod
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How can I get a notification when someone else's question is reopened?
Does a feature like this exist? A question has been closed, because the user must write it in a better way.
I have already an answer for it, and it would be great to have an alert/notification when it ...
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Add the ability to follow deleted posts
I'm reposting my feature-request from the Follow feature announcement as I was asked to by @YaakovEllis in a comment:
Can you please add this as a feature request in a separate post. No longer ...
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Increase the character limit of the custom edit rejection reasons
During my time on Arqade, I sometimes take some time from my experience to visit the Suggested Edits review queue, and approve/reject the edits I see.
I find myself rejecting a lot of edits that are ...
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Remove the suggestion to post a new question from the closed questions post notices
Some user posted a question on IPS twice the past 2 days, and then was rude about the closure of both and the request to edit instead of reposting a slightly recomposed version with the same ...
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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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Please add a delay to the hover tooltips
Apparently, the hover tooltip style that was already present for the follow button, has now been added to other places as well.
One thing that really bothers me about these tooltips, is that they pop ...
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Can we add some more trigger words to the one-flag-comment-delete mechanism?
We just had a rather unsavoury answer on SO from someone distinctly unhappy with the service they received. To put it mildly.
In particular, there were these two comments under the post:
I've flagged ...
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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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Notify me that the edit queue is full before I suggest an edit
I have been editing an answer on Stack Overflow, with some considerable amount of effort, and when I hit on Save Edits, the edit gets rejected with the following error. I got to know the meaning of ...
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Allow localizing the "Q" and "A" icons in the user profile
https://ru.stackoverflow.com/users/15479/suvitruf-andrei-apanasik?tab=profile
Is it possible to translate those icons for international sites?
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On the <2k edit page, can we please see the comments on our post?
I receive suggestions (in comments) to improve my own question. I start editing. I forget some of the suggestions, what should I do? I normally go back and forth until I finish editing. I can use two ...
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Can /help/privileges/flag-posts be updated to reflect the new flagging reasons?
When declining a moderator intervention flag with the 'use standard flags' reason, users are linked to /help/privileges/flag-posts.
The screenshots of the flagging options here still refer to the old ...
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Why aren't description lists formatted on Stack Exchange?
Description lists, formerly known as definition lists, are a form of HTML markup. While they are not a part of Markdown, they may be created on Stack Exchange through inline HTML. However, they ...
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Instagram link needs to be added to footer
Stack Overflow recently launched an Instagram account:
This morning, we launched an Instagram account. We’ve had accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Youtube for a while, but never Instagram. ...
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Very low contrast syntax highlighting on mobile site
The syntax highlighting for mobile on Android Chrome seems to be using a different set of colours, which looks much worse on mobile browsers (true over multiple SE sites)
Here's a side by side ...
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Unanswered questions do not show Active time
Normally a post shows the active time after first edit.
One post of mine does not show that information, does that indicate the post is not a normal state? If yes, what it is?
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Navigation page buttons are orange everywhere
On a similar note to this question: Page change buttons in user profile "All actions" and "Responses" tab appear in Stack Overflow orange rather than site theme color (which only ...
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Improve the user review ban experience [duplicate]
EDIT: While there are similarities with New review navigation does not tell review-banned users what happened or why (and please note that there are no answers to that question btw), I'm suggesting a ...
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'Thanks for submitting an edit' banner is missing a period
When you submit a suggested edit, the following notice is shown:
Thanks for submitting an edit. It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members
(the word 'approved' ...
GlorfindelMod
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Enable vote breakout and the timeline button on suggested edit reviews
At the Established User privilege level, you gain the ability to break out the vote counts into up and down votes, which is very useful in determining whether a post is generally well-received, ...
SpevacusMod
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Align websites layout on the profile preferences page
https://ru.stackoverflow.com/users/edit/current
Probably, right now appears only on Stack Overflow на Русском, because of the localization. But would be nice to make this layout flexible in ...
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Please change "Blog" to indicate it’s a Stack Exchange blog, not a site blog
Currently, each site has a listed "Blog":
It just says "Blog" and it's prominent on each page. I worry it could be mistaken for a site blog (e.g. at Chinese.SE, "plain text" could be related to ...
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Add string "Advanced help" into transifex
In the editor there is a string Advanced help:
But there is no such string in the transifex. Previously used string was advanced help (key 7a3845cdfc05fdb11c21d4d2250fcad3).
Could you add new ...
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Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE
With the recent change in the moderator privilege distribution among staff members, not everyone gets an immediately visible diamond symbol next to their name.
Hovering over a user card is not the ...
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Add a link to the notification about the "Create new tags" privilege
It might be helpful, if this notification showed some information or came with a link to more information.
I am sure, I can find the information somewhere but just being able to click might make it (...
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Inbox notification text should be darker
The notification font color was recently changed from black to gray (#6A737C):
At least for me, the notifications are hard to read now. I suggest changing the color back to black.
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Exclude posts with valid "rude or abusive" flags from appearing as review audits in all review queues
Recently our member reported about inappropriate content in the question in a First Posts review audit. The question was deleted by a moderator, because it contains NSFW pictures.
Can you do ...
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Add a "became hot meta question" timeline event
As I understand, per-site meta questions can become "hot". For example:
However, this event doesn't show up on their timeline. For the example above, its timeline shows:
This is unlike non-...
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New colors for vote counts are not accessible; please make them darker
A new change rolled out to replace the vote count colors from hardcoded CSS values to branded colors.
However, these new colors are not in compliance with WCAG accessibility guidelines. In particular,...
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"The Loop #2" contains inaccessible images with no transcription
The latest blog post, "The Loop #2: Understanding Site Satisfaction, Summer 2019", contains a graph showing percentages of responses to the site satisfaction survey:
Coded responses to &...
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Change the way deleted users are shown in the Community Moderator Elections page
In the Community Moderator Elections page, when there is a former moderator who since deleted their account on the site, it's showing an image saying "Departed" instead of their flair. Example:
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