Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the request has been satisfied through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Users should be able to close accounts on specific SE sites without developer/moderator intervention [duplicate]
I am fully aware of the process to close an account, but with the amount of new SE sites popping up under certain circumstances users may want to close or remove their accounts from one or more SE ...
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I am unable to upload images with size around 1MB or larger in chat rooms
I guess the official limit is 3MB. But I can't upload them unless they are less than around 1MB. I tested multiple images in different browsers. Same result.
There is no error message in the UI (it ...
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Adding new indexes to Data Explorer Stack Exchange tables?
This is in regards to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, specifically, its query creator.
I am trying to run some queries about Stack Overflow involving CreationDate on the table PostsWithDeleted, but ...
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Right sidebar box missing padding under headers
There should probably be padding under the headers - can it be re-added? I'm using Firefox on Windows 11, and I can reproduce this both signed in and when signed out (with userscripts & uBlock ...
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/help/whats-meta should link to meta.site[.stackexchange].com/search, not to site[.stackexchange].com/search
On [I suppose] all sites' /help/whats-meta (but Meta.SE's):
Please look around to see if your question has been asked before, and avoid asking questions that have nothing to do with [site] or the ...
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The Tragedy of the Episode 749 transcript
The latest (at the time of writing) podcast episode "Tragedy of the (data) commons" seems to have episode notes and no transcripts. For folks who don't do well with audio podcasts, ...
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The whois feature in TL is currently broken
There's a feature that lists and summons mods for a specific site on the teacher's lounge. Currently, it also lists staff with diamonds, which breaks inter site moderator collaboration. Here's an ...
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"How to add or remove login credentials" pop-up on the Contact page has incorrect instructions
On the Contact page, after selecting "I need to add or remove login credentials", the following pop-up is shown:
How to add or remove login credentials
Open up your user profile page and ...
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Unable to unsave posts when showing them again, or even just after being refreshed, using the left side icon
With posts being shown again after being saved, or even just after a browser Web page refresh, I'm now unable to unsave them (with Microsoft Edge, version 131.0.2903.63, on Windows 10) by clicking the ...
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Reword the description of the blocklist page on the mod tools list
This recent post clarifies that the <site>.stackexchange.com/admin/blocklist page includes not only fully blocklisted content but also content that generates warnings (such as, for example, ...
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Search Results page title doesn't 'understand' search options
When using the is:q search option (= questions only), the Search Results page correctly notes I'm using a search option, but the page title thinks it's a regular search term: it shows "Posts ...
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Two hard to count the inbox notifications from chat
A decade ago, in 2014 some guy named Jeff Tweeted1:
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Well, somehow this seems applicable here:...
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"Hot Network Questions" should be available [closed]
The most common way I browse SE is using the HNQ list, but I can't get to this via the app.
Can we have a way to filter the feed to just be populated from HNQ?
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Election result might be broken
Recently an election happened on a network site https://islam.stackexchange.com/election it ended on 13 November but the result is still incomplete.
Is that a bug?
Do results now take longer to ...
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Do some beta meta sites have solid-black favicons? Is this a bug?
Following some links and opening a bunch of meta posts from different per-site metas at the same time, I noticed an odd discrepancy in the icons:
The Economics meta icon seems to be solid black, ...
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Possible delay in Data Dump release - now targeting September 5th
As you probably know, it’s time for the quarterly publication of our data (affectionately known as the “data dumps”). The process of copying, uploading, and publishing the data over a notoriously ...
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This tag has no [description]; should it be removed?
The description tag here on this site seems to have no clear use. It also has no tag wiki description, hence the title.
Looking through the current uses, I see that many of its uses are covered by the ...
SpevacusMod
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I can't see anything - Teams banner and cookie toaster obscure my whole screen
There have been issues with the cookie box for a while, but this is ridiculous. It reminds me of late 2017 Stack Overflow, but this time it's network-wide.
The banner must be scrolled past (or ...
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Typo: blog post date is listed as "October 31, 2025" (a year in the future)
Just reporting a typo on this blog post:
It's also in the URL:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/
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Delete votes from users who later become moderators shouldn't prevent community undeletion
If you vote to undelete a post that was deleted by a moderator, you will get the message
A moderator has deleted this post and it cannot be undeleted
Interestingly, this extends to posts that a user ...
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The textbox for chat suspension length has odd functionality, making it difficult to issue a chat suspension
The chat suspension tool has a textbox that allows you to input a number of hours in before hitting the "suspend this user for..." button. At present, though, clicking directly on the hours ...
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Stop sending me emails I didn't sign up for
In the past few days, I've had eight separate emails from Stack Overflow. I signed up for none of them, and none of them are enabled in my email settings.
The Overflow #17
Charcoal Digest - Tuesday, ...
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Why am I receiving marketing emails from SO when I have unchecked every option in the email settings?
I received the email that is being discussed here. The thing is, I don't subscribe to any emails in the settings on SO.
It seems like a bit of an oversight that a user who went out of their way to ...
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Invalid characters in XML Atom feed
The issue popped again as I initially reported here: issue #15320 Stack Overflow - Other
Consequence was that Thunderbird was unable to load the feed, until the invalid characters slid out of the RSS.
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"API" list item in the footer is misaligned on smaller-width viewports
Here is a screenshot (freehand red circle included) of the "API" list item misalignment when the @media screen and (max-width: 980px) media query kicks in for viewports of less than 980px ...
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How are 'status-deferred' and 'status-declined' used by staff? [duplicate]
This isn't covered by How does Meta Stack Exchange work?, as that just explains the tags, but I want to know how they are used by the staff. From experience this differs from the tag description.
As ...
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Dramatic increase in New User accounts - why?
I've noticed a big uptick in "new user" account creation on Bicycles:
Zooming in, we can see a cliff between 5 and 12 June 2024.
Before that, new users were steady at 6-15 a day. After ...
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Changing a chatroom's details doesn't reload the page
If the owner of a chatroom renames the room, changes its tags or description, or switches it to Gallery mode, the clients of users who are currently in the room will not reload (possibly due to the ...
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Cannot Move Comments to Chat
At the request of Spevacus, I am posting this here. Earlier today, I attempted to move the comments below Proof that a finite field isn't ordered. chat, and encountered the following error:
Now, ...
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Implement OData API for Stack Overflow
The request is simple
Implement the OData API for Stack Overflow sites
Benefits:
It's a standard API.
OData allows the Stack Overflow database to be queried and navigated for questions, users, ...
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Chat's site minilist widget is broken
All of the widgets which are used to select a network site, such as on the room creation page and parent site selector, only show undefined when a search query is typed in; clearing the query shows a ...
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SO in read-only mode, status not updated
At about 7:55 EDT 23 OCT, attempting to refresh the main Stack Overflow page threw an error, and was in read-only mode when refreshed a few seconds later. The status page references a maintenance that ...
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COMPLETED - Site maintenance - Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 9:00 PM-11:00 PM EDT (Thursday, October 24, 1:00 UTC - Thursday, October 24, 3:00 UTC)
[UPDATE 2 - Site maintenance has been completed]
[UPDATE - The maintenance window has been expanded by one hour in order to complete the planned updates and not postpone to later have yet another day ...
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA is blocking all Stack Overflow pages in macOS Safari
I am a normal, real person trying to browse Stack Overflow from home. No weird office network issues or etc. No bots. A normal number of requests.
Every Stack Overflow page is blocked due to this ...
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Don't let users comment on review audit questions
When reviewing reopen votes, I was given this question as a review audit. I commented, nonsensically, that I didn't understand why the question was closed as primarily-opinion based, as that's what ...
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Impossible to solve Cloudflare Captcha due to timeouts
For the past 15 minutes I've been trying to solve a captcha that keeps refreshing to the same page and the reason, because it's set to timeout in 500ms on a line that has 1 second latency.
It keeps ...
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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?
While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page.
In its first paragraph the policy reads:
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How to move a chat under another stackexchange site?
I wanted to open this chat under mathoverflow but instead it got opened under stackoverflow. How can I move it under mathoverflow?
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Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments
Ask yourself how many times you typed the following in a comment:
[meta](https://meta.stackexchange.com)
Me, personally, I'm sick of it. Can we have some data.stackexchange.com-style "magic links" ...
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Stack Overflow receives a grade of B from YSlow [closed]
I checked the pages SO with Firefox 3.5.1 and YSlow 1.4.0, and got the following scores:
Main screen: B, 80
User profile: B, 82
Post: C, 72
Editing: A, 92
You could check the entire site if you ...
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I was able to post in chat with less than 20 rep by joining 20 sites
I joined 20 other sites (out of the many) and even with 1 rep was able to post in any of the chatrooms.
For example:
In ELL, I have just 1 rep and have posted messages in its chat.
This seems like a ...
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Could checksums be provided for the July 2024+/"new" SE-hosted data dumps?
One of the nice things with the previous "torrent"-based downloads of the dump, and some of the internet archive front ends was that there were built in ways to verify that a download was ...
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Allow moderators to see which comments are for deleted posts, on admin/users/<user id>/post-comments?state=all
When I look at admin/users/<user id>/post-comments?state=all, I cannot see which comments are for deleted posts.
Could be possible to add a different background for the comments on deleted ...
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Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?
Related to Meta Super User efforts:
Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
and Meta Server Fault efforts:
Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions
We already auto-remove ...
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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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Make the "delete" button different when you already voted to delete
This is extremely annoying behaviour. If you've voted to delete a post and then you press the delete button again, you can now rescind that vote, but then you can't vote again!
Because the button is ...
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I can’t post a new question on Puzzling Stack Exchange. Why not?
For the last few hours I have been unable to post a new question on Puzzling Stack Exchange or on Puzzling Meta. I can compose a new question the way I normally do but when I tap the Review your ...
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Username in chat now has wrong color as a visited link
This seems similar to this bug report: Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read. It is now marked status-completed. Maybe fixing the issue in that ...
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Highlight "close (x)" when a close vote is already raised [duplicate]
I always stumble upon questions which are in need of being closed. However, I often forget whether I voted to close a question or not, so I click on "close (x)", wait for the close dialog to load and ...
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Make it clearer when looking at a question if I've already voted to close it
Since "Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?" we now have the possibility to retract close votes.
However, as mentioned in "Retracting Close Vote, included in the Vote To ...
GlorfindelMod
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