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Chat doesn't work
Recently, I reached 30 reputation, which unlocked Chat for me. However, when logging in, AU insists I have 18 reputation, which is not true.
Is this a known bug? Should I just wait and maybe it ...
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Duplicate Account
I entered Ask Ubuntu somehow via my Ubuntu One account to register a question re: Firefox/Thunderbird - my user id was user:2208504
I wanted to update the question as I have resolved my problem but ...
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MAJOR Known Issues with 25.04 Installs and Upgrades - Known Active Issue
All:
We are aware of heavily observed bugs in the Ubuntu upgrades processes. To that end, the Release Team disabled the upgrade routes to 25.04 currently.
Additionally, there is an issue with the ...
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AI enhancement of Ask Ubuntu
Whenever I have a question and I can't figure it out myself very quickly, I go to GROK, Copilot, ChatGPT and see what they can offer, and most of the time I get some good ones (although I often have ...
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Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Important: MAJOR Known Issues with 25.04 Installs and Upgrades - Known Active Issue by Thomas Ward.
From that post:
For now, the moderation team is going to be closing or dupe-closing the vast ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #9 on Ask Ubuntu has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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Details of all of the Ask Ubuntu Moderator elections
Please list details of all of the Moderator elections on Ask Ubuntu and the successful candidates. Nice to see this all in one place rather than just scattered across AU Meta...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Replace Bard with Gemini in gen-ai-policy
https://askubuntu.com/help/gen-ai-policy mentions Bard. It's now named Gemini. FR: Replace Bard with Gemini in gen-ai-policy (or just remove it).
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Ask Ubuntu is scheduled for an election next week, 2025-03-25. In ...
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More votes than necessary needed to close a question
I reviewed and voted to close this question as it lacks details and clarity.
I noticed that 3 previous users made the same decision:
However, when I hover on the Close link below the question, it ...
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Can't sign up for Ask Ubuntu as a new user
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My answer has been edited 11 times by one user over five years to the point of unrecognizability...am I still the author?
I originally answered a question in 2016, and I made 4 edits on it over the next 3.5 years. Every time I revisited the underlying issue (having to do with Launchpad PPA builds for non-x86/x64 targets) ...
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Why am I still being punished?
Why am I still being punished by not being able to post?
I have contributed a lot here.
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Bad advice should not be allowed just because there is a disclaimer
I happen to strongly disagree with advice given by @ThomasWard here and I flagged it with a comment:
This answer is downright dangerous and the one who wrote chose to delete my comment stating ...
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