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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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How to find out how many days left to get the Fanatic and Enthusiast badge

When you are tracking a badge, or selecting a badge to track, the tracker will show you how far along you are. If you look at your user profile for the stack, in the "summary" tab, you'll see a sectio …
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German sharp S or eszett

Note that the US-INT keyboard does not support the recently-defined uppercase ß (ẞ); for that, I had to hack together an AutoHotKey script. (AltGr is the right Alt key.) …
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Where is the link to the per-site meta in the new top bar?

The icon at the extreme right, that looks like the StackExchange logo (and is often called the 'hamburger') links to your communities, and for the current community also links to the community's meta: …
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Name the reputations and abilities to it

If you click on the "Recent Achievements" icon in the top-right corner of the screen, you will see a link to "Privileges". If you click on that link, you will see the list of privileges available f …
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Which site would be appropriate to get input on law-related software ideas?

You will need to have a deep understanding of the problem before you can even begin to think about writing code as a solution (or mitigation). If you can formulate specific and detailed questions that …
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What parameters does Stack Exchange use to decide to create meta sites?

You can access any Stack Exchange site's Meta by clicking on the hamburger menu in the upper right corner - you will see the site name at the top, and its meta immediately below; that's a link to the …
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Where should I ask a question about Outlook desktop?

This is probably best asked on the Microsoft user-to-user support forums, where Microsofties and MVPs regularly hang out, but if there is any Stack Exchange site that might be able to help you, it would …
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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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Why does the number of consecutive days counter *not* show what I expect?

The "consecutive days" count refers to your current string of consecutive days visited, including today. So, since today is 13 June, and you did not visit yesterday (12 June), you only have one "conse …
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Is there a way to include formatted text to a comment?

Comment formatting is limited; one can italicize, boldface, or both, and one can do limited source code formatting, but no newlines. There is a perception that more elaborate formatting is not require …
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