I'm working on fixing rate limiting in Chat. As Makyen points out there, The changed rate limit was helpful for SmokeDetector to handle a recent wave of spam and so I want to be mindful of that when fixing this issue. I plan to add a mechanism that gives specific users in specific rooms a highe...

I heard that there was a twitter bot which automatically posted questions and asked for answers for specific questions on every site. How do they work? Is there an algorithm for doing this or is it purely random? I know that it doesn't tweet closed questions, but that's it.

With the recent changes to Twitter's API access policy, we have opted to shut down the automatic Twitter bots. See Are the various site Tweetbots affected by the upcoming Twitter API changes? for more info. For what it's worth, while removing the code that made it all go, I did find out that we w...

Add a character to the file name to specify a size If the images are hosted on the Stack Exchange imgur.com account (which most are), you can add a h, l, m, t, b or s to the filename in the URL (before the extension) to get resized versions. For that post, for example, you can use https://i.sstat...