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Revision histories of posts show headings being removed and re-added every single revision, even if they aren't changed
If a post has heading markup and has been edited, the revision histories' inline and side-by-side views seem to show them all changing on each and every edit, even though they aren't edited at all. (...
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Search on Meta is slow (sometimes)
During the last hour or so, searching on Meta Stack Exchange can be very slow; searching only on a tag still works as normal, probably because it automatically redirects to e.g.
https://meta....
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Is the "Segoe UI" font reverted on Windows OS?
Until yesterday I saw that the "Segoe UI" font was used on Meta Stack Exchange due to the recent font change: We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021.
But now I can see "Arial&...
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User data in light of Stack Overflow's / Stack Exchange, Inc.'s acquisition
I would like to know how the acquisition impacts our user data, and specifically private user data.
I am aware that a large part of our contributions could be scraped from the outside (or even, ...
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Unable to downvote *and* vote to delete from the review page as it used to work
As you know, trusted users can vote Delete instead of Recommend Deletion for answers with score ≤ 0 (see here, and ≤ -1 if not from review). Very often, a non-answer gets an upvote (so it has a score ...
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Moderators don't hunt down "questionable grammar"
In the description for the job opening Vice President of Community Management - which I'm glad to see you're hiring for - there's this line:
We have a network of over 500 volunteer moderators who are ...
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Why was there no feedback post for the quarterly CEO blog post?
Yesterday, the quarterly CEO blog post was posted: "Accelerating Stack Overflow’s transformation"
Previously, there have been Meta.SE feedback posts where users could provide feedback and ...
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Change in the way the first posts review queue works?
Was there a recent change in the way the first posts review queue works? I ask this because I am used to getting the reviews from that queue within the first five minutes after the question (or the ...
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Inbox "View all inbox items" button seems to have vanished
(Possibly Teams-related)
At the top of my inbox, there used to be a "View all inbox items" button. But it appears to have just vanished:
It's not just me either, but it seems to be ...
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Server error when trying to log in to Winter Bash 2020 Hat Dash after it has ended
Today I found this:
Please make the Hat Dash leaderboard link a different color
And was interested to see what this is:
https://winterbash2020.stackexchange.com/
When I try to login, I get:
Oops! ...
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Is Freelancing taking part in Winterbash this year?
Is Freelancing taking part in Winterbash this year?
Twelve hours in, and I can't believe nobody has qualified for at least the Social Distancing hat.
According to the Leaderboard 0 Users have 0 Hats.
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Is Meta Stack Exchange a Meta site or a Main site for the purposes of the Social Distancing hats?
There are two Social distancing hats; one for Main sites and one for Meta sites. I see that I earned both of them on Meta Stack Exchange:
Is Meta Stack Exchange actually both a Meta site and a Main ...
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Why is the auto generated duplicate comment disappearance not consistent?
I have flagged the following two questions as duplicates:
Split list based on element value in Scala [duplicate]
The POST method is not supported for this route. Supported methods: GET, HEAD. - ...
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What is this "moderator" option on the access dropdown for users in chat?
As a Room Owner of a room on chat, I can see an option for "moderator" if I go to adjust the access settings for a user in that room:
However, it doesn't appear to actually do anything. If ...
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Timeout logging into chat
Is anyone else unable to log into chat rooms today?
Other parts of the site seem to be working fine but trying to enter chat room listing invariably results in timeout.
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Please moderate Facebook comments on the SO page
Not a complaint or a whine, but a polite request because Facebook won't do it.
I reported the comment above, which was posted from a fake account using your name to entice people to send them crypto ...
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Error "500 Server Error for url: https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/login"
I'm working on my chatbot for Stack Exchange (mainly for Stack Overflow in Russian) and everything worked fine until today. I rebooted it and when it tried to login to MSE again it raised this error:
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Ticket Smash - How is the backlog today?
In We expect some Q3 projects to be delayed "Ticket Smash" was announced:
No tomorrows. No excuses. Ticket Smash on September 8th - September 18th
In total we have almost 600 unhandled CM ...
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What exactly is meant by "flagged and deleted" in the 10k tools help center article?
On the topic of deleting questions, the help center article for Access to moderator tools has the following to say, with my emphasis:
When should I delete questions?
Closed questions that are of no ...
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Network wide suspensions with greater than 1 reputation points
I found a user with a network wide suspension but having >1 reputation on 2 sites.
Upon request by Staff/Moderator I can provide the user address if it is a bug but at the moment
I am looking ...
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What is Stack Exchange's official stance on words such as "black list", "white list", "master", "slave", and so on?
I've just had one of my answers edited on Stack Overflow to swap out "black list" and "white list" for "deny list" and "allow list" respectively. There was no ...
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Ads on Android open regardless of whether I touch them
I have a problem which I encounter only on Stack Exchange group sites (although it can be my phone's problem).
The problem is: I don't tap on the ad, but it still opens. I want to drag my finger to ...
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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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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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Redirect error for question with unicode superscript character at end of title
If I try to directly view this question, I get a redirect message (both in Chrome and Firefox, on Windows 10): Convert kWh to Watts per m²
I cleared cookies as suggested and there was no change in ...
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What is the purpose of showing score in suggested tag wiki edits?
While reviewing suggested edits, I found that tag wiki edit suggestions have vote score on the left
In my understanding the score is for letting reviewer know how important/useful a post is so that ...
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Why are the colors of visited and non-visited links on Academia.SE so different?
On Academia.SE, the color of non-visited links is blue, and the color of visited links is red:
However, on every other SE site I have visited, the color of visited and non-visited links are slightly ...
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Why is the updated All Time review counter not updated anymore while performing reviews?
While performing a review of a post, in the upper right it shows your All Time review count for the selected review queue. And after you complete a review with either "No Action Needed" or "I'm Done", ...
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Who do I contact if I am a researcher interested in researching StackExchange?
I am a doctoral student in Educational Technology and am interested in writing my dissertation on StackExchange functionality. In particular, I want to evaluate content-creating functionality to ...
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Has SO apologized for their licensing fait accompli?
In the latest news from SO, the following was posted (emphasis mine):
Licensing
MIT licensing of code was proposed, but held back due to community naysayers.
CC-BY-SA incremented from 3.0 ...
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How do I stop having the same "community members have suggested a similar question" pop-up? [duplicate]
I have posted a question here: Is it possible to run a script on power button press with systemd? and every time I come back to this page I have a
Some community members have suggested a similar ...
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What were the complaints filed under "other" in the survey data?
In the latest blog post, The Loop #2: Understanding Site Satisfaction, Summer 2019, this graphic is included:
Coded responses to "What do you find most frustrating or unappealing about using ...
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Does this answer your question? Notice remains open even after submitting feedback
I have asked a question today and one member was voted as duplicate and private feedback was there, I choose no and submitted the form. When I revisit the question or refresh the page same notice ...
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Shog9 and Robert Cartaino are still listed as moderators in Area 51 Discussion
Based on the posts Thank you, Shog9 and Thank You, Robert Cartaino, they no longer work for Stack Exchange, and their moderator access was revoked from all the Stack Exchange sites.
However, when I ...
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I can't turn off the new mobile chat interface even though the option is not activated in Preferences
Referring to this post about being forced to use the new mobile interface.
In the Answer, we are told to go to our chat preferences and make sure that checkbox is not activated. The OP says it was ...
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What does the symbol ; }) mean?
What does the symbol ; }) mean? In all the Stack Exchange site's Tour pages, I can see the symbol.
Is it a smiley? Or is it due to a code block not being closed properly?
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Missing publicist badge?
I've had a link on my webpage to one of my Stack Overflow answers for a long time now. For fun, I track it with Google Analytic events, so I know for sure that I've received more than 1000 clicks. Yet ...
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Was this question deleted? And if yes, why?
I just now was reading this question - "the-loop-has-arrived-what-does-the-community-think-about-it", then I refreshed the page and it was a 404. What happened to it? Was this question deleted? And if ...
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What caused the server outage?
Until just a minute ago, I was getting the following error on SO/Meta.SE/other network sites:
Description: An exception occurred while processing your request. Additionally, another exception ...
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Cross-site queries on SEDE fail with "The EXECUTE permission was denied"
I just noticed that any cross-site queries using dynamically generated SQL on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) now fail with the error message:
The EXECUTE permission was denied on the ...
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The pop up box used for user annotations does not close when the action is completed
Can we please have a more intuitive user experience when annotating user accounts?
The pop up box when annotating user accounts does not close when submitted. It's counter intuitive to the process of ...
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The plurals tag has lua syntax enabled
For some obscure reason - the plurals tag has lua syntax enabled.
This ought to be fixed, since it might get confusing if for some reason there's code in a question with such tag.
Could we remove ...
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Stack Exchange’s date system won’t work in 89 years [duplicate]
I was looking at an old post, and noticed how we display dates from a certain amount of time ago:
This is very non-futureproof design. How will people living in the melted remains of society in 89 ...
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Moderator "Convert to Comment" is moving comments on the answer even when that option is unselected
I don't know how long this has been going on as I only noticed it today when checking a question after having moved an answer via "Convert to Comment". There is the "migrate comments on this answer ...
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Kotlin highlighting?
I motion to reopen Support Kotlin in code highlighting as there's a lot of evidence
It says
If Kotlin becomes more popular in the future, we will reconsider.
Evidence of maturity
There's a rejected ...
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The new flag dashboard doesn't include the reputation of the user whose post is being flagged
Having the reputation of the user whose post is being flagged is a useful piece of information - especially for "not an answer" flags. If the user has less than 50 rep - i.e. a new user - then they ...
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Is anybody else having PKI problems connecting using Firefox 67.0?
I suddenly started getting the following error message when using Firefox to access Stack Exchange sites:
An error occurred during a connection to math.stackexchange.com. A required TLS feature is ...
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Uploading picture seems down across all stack website
It seems not possible to upload a picture anymore across several StackExchange website.
It fails with "Failed to upload image; couldn't reach imgur" although the host i.sstatic.net is responding ...
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Chat.se, chat.so and chat.mse seem to be down
There seems to be some kind of trouble with both the main, SO and SE meta chats - All three servers are
pathping seems to indicate something's fishy on the NY side of things. Could y'all take a look ...
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Why does ELU get a special background for Time Travel mode?
ELU seems to get a textured background displayed right behind text elements:
(Or rather, it's the same background as on all the sites, but other sites that I've looked at have a plain color behind ...
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