Questions tagged [support]
Use this tag for requests for assistance with tools and other features on the Stack Exchange Network. This includes understanding how features work and why they work that way, or how to better use them.
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Question flagged as spam and error on body [duplicate]
I am trying to post a question on Stack Overflow regarding a problem I found on my code, but when I try to post it, the site returns two errors, both not really clarifying what is wrong with the ...
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Impossible to reconnect with another Google account [duplicate]
I wanted to connect to a Stack Exchange site, but by mistake I chose my Google account from work.
I noticed it on the page that asks me to create my profile.
I clicked on Cancel to go back and use the ...
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Is there a way to turn Festive Hats on?
I remember, in days of old, we used to have hats appearing on our avatars at this time of year.
Is there a way to turn that on?
Or, have hats been denied to all for some reason.
I'm wearing a ...
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Is it possible to search comments like we can search chat messages? [duplicate]
In chat.stackexchange.com we can search all chat messages filtered by keywords, user id, and room id. The search result has unique URL to a chat message.
Given that there is also a unique URL for a ...
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What is the meaning of Winter Summer Bash favicon?
As can be seen here, this is the favicon of Winter Summer Bash site:
What is the meaning behind choosing those colors, in that order? (I don't remember when SE started using this icon.)
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Where should I ask questions about Stata?
I am having trouble graphing a data set in Stata. In which Stack Exchange site would I find an appropriate answer?
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"Winter Bash 2022" or "Winter Summer Bash 2022"?
The countdown for this year's Winter Bash (2022) is started.
This time on the countdown page, the image is displayed as "Winter Summer Bash 2022".
So shall we call it "Winter Bash 2022&...
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Stack Overflow for Teams is moving to its own domain at stackoverflowteams.com
Based on our Product research and user feedback we see that sometimes when posting, users who are active in both the public community and Stack Overflow for Teams find themselves in a situation like ...
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Which Stack Exchange sites were fully redesigned after their original designs were deployed?
Some sites on the network have been completely redesigned from the time they received their original site designs (a part of site graduation prior to July 2015). For instance, Android Enthusiasts was ...
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How are the lists of saves ordered?
When I am saving a question to a specific lists, how are is the list of my lists sorted? (To some extent I am asking out of curiosity - regardless of the ordering, the lists are usable just fine.)
For ...
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Difference between changing password with Email and with Stack Exchange
I want to change my Stack Overflow (and as far as I know that will change it for all other Stack Exchange sites) profile. First, I really have to mention, that UI is very bad - I needed to google &...
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What does the "reached" property mean on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
If you go on my profile you will see that I have "reached" 703k:
First I thought it was the number of persons who:
saw an answer of me
saw a question of me
or an edit I made on a question
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Closed Area 51 proposals show more to anonymous users than when logged in [closed]
This is what the What If proposal looks like when logged in:
That's fine, I can live with that.
However, this is when not logged in:
Same page, same browser (Firefox 107 x64). One in a normal window,...
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A custom filter is nowhere to be seen. But still there [closed]
I have a custom filter named "ES5" which I could not find for some reason. Here is the list of custom filters:
The list of custom filters I have is:
All
fetch + api
fetch + fetch-api
fetch +...
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How can I delete a saves list?
I have some saves lists (in my Stack Overflow account) created by myself:
How do I delete them?
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Error returned when trying to login to Stack Overflow Teams after adding another login [closed]
I was successfully logged in to our new company Stack Overflow Teams account using email + password. I then (foolishly) attempted to attach another login using GitHub, thinking I could have my ...
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A Stack Exchange site for internship/job application questions?
There are so many Stack Exchange sites so I wanted to ask: is there one where I can go and ask questions about job applications etc.? Or perhaps some non-career-specific one where I can ask questions ...
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Searching my own unanswered questions over all Stack Exchange sites
I wish to get a list of my own unanswered questions over all Stack Exchange sites.
It seems you can run SQL queries with data.stackexchange.com, something I learned only today. Is there a way I can ...
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Is there a way to programmatically get the days 'visited' information? [closed]
On our Stack Overflow for Teams: Enterprise instance, I'd like to use the API to build a report on how often users visit the site. I can see this information in the admin dashboard (e.g. below, "...
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Where can I ask for non-computer hardware recommendations?
I am looking for a good semi-professional heat press. I make custom t-shirts and bags for my business. I have been heat-pressing with an iron and the volume has got to a point where I want a machine.
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Is there API support for salesforce.stackexchange.com?
I'm able to use the API to get selected questions from stackoverflow.com by running
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=salesforce&site=...
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Is the purpose of the 'Your Communities' 'Email address' account setting to specify where notifications are to be sent?
I am a novice user trying to better understand the available account settings. If there is existing documentation that describes each field, please point me to its location.
In Account > Settings &...
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What does the 'Stack Exchange' entry in the 'My Logins' section of my account represent?
I am a novice user of the Stack Exchange platform. I was recently reviewing the details of my accounts. Within the 'Settings' tab is a 'My Logins' section, i.e. Account > Settings > ACCESS > ...
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How do I see when an SE site was closed? [duplicate]
It was announced today that the Windows Phone SE site had been closed. The Area 51 page lists that the site was closed after 3857 days, but is there a way to see what date an SE site was closed?
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Where can I ask questions about software industry vocabulary?
Are there sites where it is on-topic to ask about the proper usage, and tips to avoid overuse of citizen developer, a term found in a sponsored blog article1?
Citizen developer looks to me as a ...
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Where can I ask about a game engine's general patterns?
Note: If this is wrong Stack Exchange section to post in, I apologize. If so, where should I post the questions covering the topic below?
I am wondering if this is appropriate to ask in Stack Exchange’...
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What happened to FavoriteCount?
On 10/22 I ran a query on the Data Science SEDE. In the Posts table I selected some columns, FavoriteCounts included. Looking at the results from the .csv I see a lot of different unique values for ...
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Where can I ask about unsupported Ubuntu OS?
I am trying to find out if there is a place within the Stack Exchange network where I can ask questions regarding an unsupported version of Ubuntu. I crafted a detailed post about dependencies and ...
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SEDE quick-view of CloseAsOffTopicReasonTypes table does not match query result [duplicate]
#5 quick-view is about super-user, but query is about SSCCE
#6 quick-view is about career / office politics, but query is about minimal understanding
#7 quick-view is about what tech to learn next, ...
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The tag popover is not working in the post body, is this by design or a bug? [duplicate]
The popover showing the tag excerpt when hovering a inline tag, i.e. [meta-tag:tags] and [tag:tags] works on edit mode, but not on view mode.
With meta-tag prefix: tags,
With tag prefix: tags
When ...
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Can we remove old Jobs message notifications from the inbox?
Since Stack Overflow Jobs has been shut down, can we remove the old notifications from the inbox? Clicking on them just goes to the Jobs page saying that it has been shut down and has no other action.
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Can the link replacement tool be used on typos in regular text?
I discovered a simple typo that is pretty prevalent. Can this be fixed with the "link" replacement tool, given that it's actually "a simple Find and Replace tool"? (That linked Q&...
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What does replacing of bookmarks with saves mean for SEDE?
So, relatively recently bookmarks were replaced by saves: Bookmarks have evolved into Saves.
In SEDE, bookmarks were stored in the votes table. They were stored with VoteTypeId=5 and the user was ...
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Can a suspended user use saves?
Is it possible for a suspended user to add new saves? If not, could this be changed?
I would guess that a suspended user is still able to see their saves and search using in:saves - if not, consider ...
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What is SE policy regarding potentially offensive screen names?
A user has chosen a screen name that could be construed as deeply offensive. Actually, aside from the possibility that it is intended as a joke (ie tongue-in-cheek), it can't be regarded as other than ...
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Stack Exchange Data Dump — OwnerDisplayName and LastEditorDisplayName
I'm using the Stack Exchange Data Dump and am trying to have posts along with the creators of the posts. I would like to put text like "created on [date] by [user]". In most cases, the ...
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Don't show the "New! We have saves now!" popup on every session, please
I use more than three devices and multiple browsers and am frequently not logged in and/or clear my cookies.
This means that multiple times a day, I'm greeted by this obnoxious popup:
Yes, I know, ...
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Cannot post comments on SE app on iOS [duplicate]
Although I can post fine from my desktop, on iOS I am unable to post comments (haven't tried an answer) on the SE app.
"Request failed. Could not perform this request with your account. Please ...
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Where can I ask if people are proud of former colonies in GB?
Great Britain had lot of colonies. The colonies were ripped of. Rebels were killed and inhabitants enslaved.
I want to know if people in GB are proud of former colonies or if they judge it.
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Is Stack Overflow for Teams going to be removed from the sidebar on the rest of the network?
I got a toast on my left sidebar saying -
"Stack Overflow for Teams is moving to its own domain! When the migration is complete, you will access your Teams at stackoverflowteams.com, and they ...
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How can I download the full front page of an SE site?
When I open ELL.SE in a browser, I get a list of 48 questions. I want to manipulate these questions in Python with a Beautiful Soup script.
But when I download the page with the requests library in ...
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Can Google and Cloudflare find my SE password?
We are using Firefox with the NoScript extension on GNU/Linux, mainly for security reasons.
When we go to the login page of a Stack Exchange site, say https://mathoverflow.net, the NoScript extension ...
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How to follow / get a notification from tag wikis edits
As of 2022, is there a way to follow / watch / subscribe to a tag wiki or to filter suggested edits to only view suggested edits for a specific case, i.e., staging-ground?
There are some old feature-...
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Reading the remainder of this tag explanation
When adding a tag to a question (e.g. on Web Apps SE), how can I read the remainder of the tag explanation?
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Is stackstatus.com related to stackstatus.net?
I googled stackstatus today and the first result shown was https://www.stackstatus.com
Is the domain somehow related to https://www.stackstatus.net? (This was the second result.)
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API request for "favorites" now returning an empty list – is there a way to get something equivalent for saves?
I have a script which I use, based on the StackExchange API, to regularly download a local backup of various questions relevant to me (the ones I've asked, answered, or favorited) across various SE ...
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If you don't look good, we don't look good – could there be more aggressive copy editing of the blog?
Admittedly – I'm the denizen of MSE who gets edited the most often. I've a community who reads my posts and spends the effort and time to fix up my quirks.
There are a significant number of posts ...
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How can I ask for clarification about the current quarter escalation guidelines for old feature requests about Ask a Question form / [quality-filter]?
I have several things that I would like to escalate to staff but I'm not sure which of them meet the guidelines stated in What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I ...
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Why is the "Show vote summaries" filter not available to anonymous users?
I was just checking the timeline of a post on a site where I don't have an account, and I noticed that the "Show vote summaries" filter option is unavailable.
Here's an example of what the ...
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How can I suggest a tag synonym when the system doesn’t recognise a tag?
At LawSE there is the united-kingdouk tag which has a typo and is frequently used by at least one user necessitating others to edit posts and replace it with united-kingdom.
To negate the need for ...
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