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User activity feed - favorited, badges, etc
I was just thinking it would be useful if there was a stream generated from activity such as adding a post to favorites. Also an aggregate of lots of different recent activity, for example earning a ...
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How can I follow an Area 51 proposal already in the commit phase when my commitments are full?
How can I follow an Area 51 proposal already in the commit phase when my commitments are full? I can only commit to 3 proposals and while I await their betas I can't commit to any more, so I'd like to ...
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On Area51 who gets to vote on closing proposals?
There has been some good discussion about the recent Vi proposal on Area51. At least 3 Vi/Vim proposals (including the most recent one) got closed. It is not clear to me who makes the decisions to ...
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User flair with theme clean won't update rep
Is this a bug or just a server glitch/delay?
I use the flair in my gmail signature and noticed that the clean theme didn't get updated.
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Practical method to answer contact requests in questions using SE-chat
A few times I've been requested nicely by the OP to make some kind of contact outside the SE world to discuss an answer. For example: "I would like to share and discuss my solution with you, can we ...
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Mod of two sites - close here or there?
So, I have mod on both serverfault.com and webmasters.se - I've seen questions that are just plain wrong to be on Server Fault, and should be on webmasters.se, so I've migrated them there.
However, ...
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Discussion link missing for beta sites
The Area51 page for proposals already in Beta (example) does not link to related discussion like the pages for not-yet-started proposals do.
That should change, because Betas can well be the subject ...
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Would it be possible to discard the "How to format" DIV?
Hi,
I understand the importance of giving basic instructions on formatting, specially for non-technical users or beginners, but for some cases I find useful the ability of discarding or hiding this ...
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Ironic? Closed as "Duplicate" is duplicated [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatic “Possible duplicate” is definitely duplicated
I just saw this question closed as duplicate, but the note displaying the source question is shown twice. ...
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How do I post several lines of XML which happen to follow a bullet point?
I thought the four spaces were supposed to do this. And they do, unless there is a bullet point right before them. How can I make this work?
Example:
Here's some XML:
(it's there, in ...
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Area 51 proposal invitation notification
I've now twice gotten the following notification on Area 51:
Welcome to Stack Exchange Area 51!
user thought you'd be interested in this proposed Q&A site. If you like
the idea, you can ...
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Have new tag synonyms that I can vote for show up in the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™
If a new tag synonym is proposed that I would be able to vote on (i.e. it would show up on my suggested tag synonym page), then please have it show up in the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™...
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Facebook notification style (3), etc. in the window title [duplicate]
Facebook puts a little (1) in the page title whenever you have a comment, etc. I find this really handy when I have a bunch of tabs open, and it would be great on Stack Overflow too. So, could we get ...
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Notify me of answers to other people's questions
Is there a way to have it notify me when answers or comments are posted to other people's questions? I know how to do it for my own questions, but (unless I'm blind) I don't see where to select this. ...
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Searching for Q's on SO that are in one of my favorite tags and unanswered
I did some looking at the search help and tried out the options but nothing seemed to work. How do I found questions that are unanswered AND IN one of my favorite tags?
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embed area51 proposals
Lots of Proposals in hierarchy ! Just a single Stream & dividing in branches, I think generate a crowd of SO like sites !
SO is general for Software Developers. But, there are many proposals ...
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Tag tooltip does not display correct number of subscribers
When hovering over the qtp tag in SO it says there are 0 subscribers. I know this is wrong since I subscribe to this tag for all SE sites.
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Can't add any Meta Sites released after M.SU to my Tag Set?
It doesn't work if I do:
Add entire site
Enter "Meta Gam"
Let it auto-complete to "Meta Gaming"
Click on "add".
The loading animation shows up shortly, but it isn't added to the list.
It does work ...
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Racket language questions tagging: tags "plt-scheme" and "racket" [closed]
We maybe still need plt-scheme, but I'm asking if we need that tag on the new questions. E. g. it would be ok for Abstracting functions / avoiding repetition in functions to have racket (or maybe ...
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Where did my downvote go?
A question out of mild curiosity because I've never seen this. I got a downvote on this question.
Vote count:
However, it doesn't show up in my stats, neither for today:
Nor yesterday:
It is ...
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Where should I ask a question about fonts in Photoshop?
Not sure if this is the right place, but I'm wanting to ask a question about how to achieve a certain font appearance in Photoshop. Should this be posted in Photography?
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When does timing start for evaluating badges that are obtained based on daily activity?
There are certain badges such as Mortarboard and Suffrage which are obtained by accomplishing something in a single day. For example, Suffrage is obtained by voting on 30 posts a day.
My query is, ...
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Switch from text links to site icons in the footer [closed]
The current site footers include text links to each site:
This design has the advantage of removing any doubt about where a link goes, but it:
Takes up more space; to compensate normal sites only ...
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How can I remove an OpenID from a Stack Overflow account? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove an OpenID or login?
How can I remove an OpenID from a Stack Overflow account?
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Is it possible to order questions by votes and filter them by asking date?
I have the habit of browsing the top 5000 most voted questions. That means 100 pages of 50 questions per page. This long process spans many days, even weeks, and while my browser keeps track of the ...
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Syntax highlighter is jumpy lately
After entering some code in an answer and the timer expires, the syntax highlighter kicks in and inserts an extra line above the code. Typing some more makes the line disappear. This makes the code ...
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Wrong formatting after edit
I've edited this question and removed most some of the markup. But as you can see in the revision history suddenly the whole question turned bold.
I didn't realize this so there was no further edit ...
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StackExchange inbox new notifications number does not match
Looks like minor bug, but still..
The number is 3 but I see only 2 new notifications.
Any idea? :)
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Does the adding of moderator-only tags show up in a user's activity?
Jeff Atwood recently added the moderator-only tag "status-declined" to Can I disable a specific annoying ad?.
I tried looking at his recent activity page, to see if his declining was done soon after ...
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Inconsistent "Upload Image" box
The upload image box shows an animated activity indicator when you upload an image on SO. However, in chat, when you upload an image, it just says "uploading image..."
This is inconsistent and just ...
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Strunk & White / Copy editor badges
I have found these queries
Check Strunk und White process, for current user
How Many Edits Have I Made?
Does this queries work?
Standing on what the queries returns I have only done 6 edits. But ...
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"Unanswered" filter isn't as useful as it could be
As a new user, I'm scrolling through the "Unanswered" questions that I can help with and finding that most of them aren't questions. They're informative posts... most with comments, but no "answers".
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I am unable to access Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Hey there,
Frm the past few days, I am unable to access the site. I access the Internet via a 3G connection and my ISP has given me a shared IP address (218.248.84.95). I am on a Mac.
Problem: when I ...
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Can I automatically post earned badges to my Facebook status?
Wouldn't that be geeky if I could somehow associate my Stack Overflow account with Facebook in a way, that I could "push" earned badges to my Facebook Status?
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HTML questions here or on webmasters.stackexchange.com?
Do we answer HTML questions here, or refer them to http://webmasters.stackexchange.com?
I am not talking about web programming questions... but questions about strictly HTML and CSS. To me, clear-...
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Defining the format of the mighty Stack Exchange engine
Stack Exchange is such a great and awesome dear leader. Its format has been the fruity inspiration to many other sites and wannabes.
Has the format of the Stack Exchange engine (from an editorial ...
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No associated accounts shown in CV status
I've read some questions about this topic but still haven't found an answer.
I recently created a CV in Stack Overflow Careers, but on my CV => status it says "No associated accounts". When I go to ...
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Careers Linkedin import: Internal Server Error [closed]
The $.getJSON call to /import/linkedin-auth/:ID fails, and the GET to http://careers.stackoverflow.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/import/linkedin-auth/:ID returns 500 Internal Server Error.
Something must ...
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Header doesn't display correct links on "Page Not Found" page
I just tried to visit the profile of an MSO user, but it turns out that that user recently deleted his account, so I got the "Page Not Found" page. It looked like this:
The "log out" and "tools" ...
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Is there a way to set up a cross-site feed of Stack Exchange questions?
I'm a member of several Stack Exchange sites, and it would be lovely if I could have a feed of top questions of the day from sites I'm a member of.
The little StackExchange v button at the top of ...
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Post shown as modified by Community in main page, but nothing modified..? [duplicate]
while browsing the main page of stack overflow parent site, I noticed this:
However upon going to the question, I could not see anything modified in there. Am I getting blind, or is this some sort of ...
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What does the "views" column in the SO schema store?
I'm not sure what that's supposed to store! Does anyone have an idea?
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How can I re-ask a question from a different Stack Exchange site?
How can I ask a question on Super User if I have already asked it on Stack Overflow?
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Do not count moderators in the "Total Reputation" tables on StackExchange
The Stack Exchange reputation league table has a Total Reputation table, which is useful to know how many people can do what. Moderators, however, skew the numbers -- their powers are not affected by ...
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What are the numbers / symbols to the right of my reputation counter?
I'm referring to the colored circles with numbers next to them on the top of the page, to the right of my reputation counter. What do they represent?
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Tag counts on profile page
On the profile page under the vote count, what are the tags and the numbers next to them? Are they how many you have answered for a question with a tag, or how many upvotes, or what?
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How can I listen to tags in stackoverflow [duplicate]
Is there a way I could "listen" (maybe get an e-mail a message in my stackoverflow inbox) to some tags, so when a question is added this tag I can answer it quickly?
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When should questions be closed as "too localised" on MSO? [closed]
Under what circumstances would it be appropriate to close a question as "too localised" on MSO? Unlike the other sites, the purpose of meta is to provide support rather than build a QA database, so I ...
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Improve the community wiki tooltip
Community owned posts do not generate any reputation for the owner, have a lower reputation barrier for collaborative editing, and show only a revision history instead of a signature block.
It is ...
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Is StackOveflow running asp.net MVC2 + SQL Server?
I just a couple of tweets that got my attention.
This one
Digg: 200MM page views, 500 servers. Stack Overflow: 60MM page views, 5 servers. What am I missing?
and then this one
(nb Stack ...
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