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Why do some sites in the site switcher have a long query parameter (e.g. "mathoverflow.net/?_gl=1*i2ckzl*_ga*…")?
This is tracking parameter most likely related to the change from Google Analytics 4 (GA4) upgrade
The tracking parameter is added by Google Analytics to cross-domain links. On the Stack Exchange ...
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Find a Stack Exchange site faster
I might misunderstand you, but IMHO this feature request makes sense ... unless you have an appropriate list of 'your communities', which I assumed most (if not all) users maintain explicitly or have ...
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Is it the "Stack Exchange Network" or the "Stack Overflow Network"?
It's definitely the "Stack Exchange Network".
What can sometimes get confusing is that the brand name for the entity that runs said network is "Stack Overflow", not "Stack Exchange". So, sometimes ...
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Stack Overflow in ES, PT, RU, JP have mixed-language descriptions
The first issue (for a top bar) is done now:
But the rest (on stackexhange site list) still is an issue.
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Logic behind automatically added SE-sites to 'YOUR COMMUNITIES'
The site switcher allows five sites max when they're not customized.
These are sorted in order by most reputation first. If you don't have a profile on five different sites, it will only show the ...
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Stack Overflow in ES, PT, RU, JP have mixed-language descriptions
The descriptions on the Site List have been updated.
See below for the changes.
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Link to blogs outside BlogOverflow in StackExchange menu?
Because this is long I'll present my proposal first and then the background.
Proposal
Linking to an external blog means SE incurs some work and some liability, so we need to protect SE's interests as ...
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Clicking 'chat' from the SuperCollider™ no longer takes you to to a site specific chat page
Chrome on Android doesn't pass referer data between domains; it appears to behave the same way as Chrome Desktop does for HTTPS requests, but for all requests.
Since that chat link depends on the ...
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What happened to the Stack Exchange site list?
It's been moved to the right now:
There's a few other changes - which I talked about on this MSU post. It's been active a while so slightly surprised folks just noticed.
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Meta privilege says site switcher is on the left
This has been fixed meanwhile:
Where is meta?
There is a link to meta in the Stack Exchange site switcher (top right in the header).
Judging by this Wayback Machine snapshot within 6-8 months of the ...
GlorfindelMod
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The site icons in all the dropdowns in the top bar on the chat page seem to have... disappeared?
For anyone who can't wait for 6 to 8 weeks it will take for this to get fixed, here is a userscript to repair the broken window. It is as simple as adding the class s-topbar to the topbar-wrapper once ...
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Complete Listing of Communities on Stack Exchange
On the activity tab of your profile, there is an accounts listing right at the bottom. That has an all accounts button that links to the page with all your accounts on stack exchange.com
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How can a site change the "tagline" that shows in the site dropdown?
Contact the Community team (email is probably best) to request the change. Link to any relevant meta posts that show community support for the change. This blurb is called the "audience" and must ...
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Hide Hot Questions?
Based on this answer, this is how I set up my Firefox userContent.css file so that they're blurred by default still, but I can mouse hover over to unblur, when I'm interested in a distraction.
#hot-...
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How can I enlarge the box under the Stack Exchange dropdown?
A custom user-stylesheet will help. Find those lines in all.css:
.topbar-dialog.siteSwitcher-dialog {
width: 375px;
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: hidden;
min-height: 390px; //<-- ...
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Logic behind automatically added SE-sites to 'YOUR COMMUNITIES'
By default, the site switcher shows your top five accounts by reputation. You currently have a seven-way tie for third place, and room for only three of them. As far as I know there's no baked-in ...
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Can we add private betas in "your communities" drop down?
You can add private beta sites in the pinned list in the drop-down list of sites same way you can add any other site. (They don't appear in the ordinary search, but do appear when adding)
All you ...
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Upper left button of stack exchange communities vs. 'Questions' tab
If you're talking about clicking the site logo, or going to a site by clicking their name in the Stack Exchange dropdown, then that action will by default, take you to the 'active' tab (or, as @Cai ...
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What happened to the Stack Exchange site list?
I ran into the same thing and had no idea that there was a stack on the far right of the top bar that now does that, until I saw the comment to the question. (Which should be an answer.) I was left ...
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Site Switcher Text Wrapping/Formatting
There are few whitespaces before the name. So it splits to next line because the container can't accommodate it completely.
All the spaces have the effect of one single space. Which means one single ...
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Dropdown menu shows me as not logged in while on mobile site for community I didn't join
while on Programming and Puzzling SE, where I do not have an account, that the drop-down menu treats me as logged out
Yes. Because on those sites, where you do not have a profile, you are anonymous / ...
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