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New close reason proposal: "Question based on misunderstanding"
Communities where such situations often happen can choose to add it as a custom off-topic reason. Two examples from Stack Overflow:
Needs debugging details
The question should be updated to include ...
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Allow filtering user actions for actual active actions
I agree with the spirit this request, albeit with a modified solution. I see it as being in a similar vein as a couple other requests involving cleaning up the "All actions" tab.
Every other ...
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Change status blog address to https://www.stackstatus.net/ in the offline for maintenance page
The link is now fixed.
app offline oh no!?!
what's the network status now?
oh nice! link works now!
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How can I bypass automatic string-tag conversion?
Just wrap your keyword in double quotes: searching for "ukraine" bypasses the tag conversion:
though the first hit not tagged [ukraine] takes some scrolling: Why are PiS and Fidesz split ...
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Make notification and reputation counts bigger again
For the same reasons I've mentioned before the notifications are still overall small and hard to see.
I used to be able to walk around the house and see from a distance if there was an event on screen....
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Allow filtering user actions for actual active actions
I'm not sure this is a much needed feature. You can only get so much passive badges a year, and they're easily to skip visually because of the black boxes (OK, gray in the case of tag badges) which ...
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Finding Number of Followers of a Tag in the Data Dump
In the following paper, authors collected Stack Overflow's tags. The data is available here.
M. Yazdaninia, D. Lo, and A. Sami. "Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted ...
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Award bounty link does not have pointer mouse cursor
This has been fixed. Hovering over the award bounty button now shows the pointing-hand mouse cursor:
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Downvote/upvote on Stack Overflow issue
This feature request has been implemented, somewhere in the middle of 2013 (check these Wayback Machine snapshots from May and July). The tooltip only shows the '(click again to undo)' when you've ...
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