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Should we be closing completed bug reports/feature requests about deprecated software as "No longer reproducible"?
We've recently had some folks going through some of our older questions that are tagged with now-deprecated software tags (e.g. ios-app/android-app) and voting to close them as "No longer ...
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How to perform link checking against Stack Exchange?
We maintain an open-source Kubernetes distribution. Our public documentation points to Stack Exchange websites, for example:
https://stackoverflow.com/
https://serverfault.com/
https://security....
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C# Code highlighting doesn't support number separators [duplicate]
As I was looking at My asynchronous method does not work asynchronously, I noticed that in C#, if a number is written with a number separator (supported since C#7.0) were not supported:
This is an ...
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Chat icon colour in left navigation bar keeps being off
It's possible that I've missed something, but I can't help thinking the purple icon for chat in the left-navigation bar shouldn't be purple at all, but gray, just like the others as displayed in the ...
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Log copy events permanently
Would it be possible to log copy events (= copying content from Stack Exchange to the computer's clipboard) permanently?
This would help monitor the health of Stack Exchange sites, when plotted across ...
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Update the close flagging experience to better align with close voting
Note: This post is the result of a TL discussion on how to address a minor bug in the flag dialog for users who can't vote to close, which led to a discussion about what the desired behavior should be....
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After 16 years, we’re renewing the Brand
By Philippe Beaudette, SVP, Community and
Eric Martin, SVP, Marketing
Over the past year, staff here have tried to communicate openly and frequently about the future we’re building at a business, ...
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“Comment not found” error when jumping to a comment
An error message “Comment not found” is displayed if one jumps to a comment by:
clicking on a comment in the responses tab,
clicking on a comment in the activity tab,
clicking on a comment in the ...
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Cloudflare blocking Wayback Machine from archiving Stack Exchange questions
Recently, whenever I try to archive a question using the Wayback Machine, Cloudflare's been blocking the attempt:
Given that any negative impact on the Wayback Machine's ability to archive SE pages ...
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How did I, having never been a moderator, single-handedly delete someone else's question?
According to the post history of this question, I single-handedly deleted it 2 months ago.
Except...I'm not a mod, so it should take at least 3 votes (for this question it would actually be 4) to ...
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Quote contains new lines when viewed on Chrome on Android
The quote on How does the taste of a burrata made of buffalo milk differ from the taste of a burrata made of cow milk? contains new lines when viewed on Chrome on Android.
Chrome on Android:
Chrome ...
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Do unusually large slews of flags get notified with enough prominence to site moderators and community managers?
Motive
There is a SE site that has a Question, currently in HNQ, whose edit history contains extremely personal information about the post author.
I'm sure that plenty of users – thanks to the HNQ ...
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Question with the same post notice multiple times
I randomly stumbled upon Harmful temptations in programming (archive), which has two historical locks:
I suppose this is a bug? Another post conveniently shows that there exists an error message to ...
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Are auto-generated profile pictures unique per email used?
Recently on another Stack there was a user who for the most part was posting normally, but then began deleting their account/recreating a new one sometimes with the same name and continued posting ...
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What causes the difference between score and (upvotes-downvotes) in SEDE?
As far as I can tell, there are some posts in SEDE where you get different number from Posts.Score and different number if you count upvotes and downvotes from the Votes table.
However, as you can see ...
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Error message about duplicate post notice shown as preformatted text
When I tried to add a post notice earlier today, something went wrong (maybe a server error, maybe a connection problem). The post notice was created but the UI wasn't updated. When I tried to add the ...
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Avoiding half-baked experiments: Setting clear standards for experiments and rollouts, beyond “Minimum”
N.B. Please note that while this post talks about MVPs (which we may or may not agree about their scope and definition), it is mostly concerned with experimental features (whether a graduated product ...
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Chat allows Room Owners to delete any message
Chat is now allowing Room Owners to delete any message sent by any user in a room they own, regardless of age. An RO cannot do this from the transcript view, though.
Is this behavior intentional, and ...
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The number of questions has decreased 10-fold: where did users go and what can be done to prevent that?
The number of questions has decreased 10-fold over the entire Stack Exchange network:
For example, around 1 million questions were posted across the entire Stack Exchange network in 2010.
This makes ...
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Mathematical equation display on stackexchange
When I look at this page 3 point to circle. And get radius in particular the last equation on the page starting "r= ..."; but the whole page is equally affected, when I first view or refresh ...
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Which SE sites allow you to ask questions about what the name of an object is?
I saw a mannequin at a clothing store in a department store, but I don't know what type of mannequin it is or the name of the mannequin type.
Which SE sites allow you to ask questions about what the ...
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Remove noise from questions [closed]
Should we edit questions so they contain less noise ?
For example, from Explicit kernel module load at startup (Unix StackExchange question), the author wrote that:
OS is Arch linux with grsec kernel....
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A per-community opt-in feature to allow users to mute notifications on specific questions
I want to be able to mute notifications from a particular question.
This feature was previously requested here: Can I mute notifications on a specific question? -
I considered voicing my approval ...
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How can one add an alt text for a linked image?
As a follow-up on Can we make image description required?, I wonder: How can one add an alt text for a linked image?
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What exactly are follow-up questions on existing answers and how do they differ from normal questions or comments?
In recent staff posts, it was reported that some users want to ask follow-up questions on existing answers. The topics seems to be specific, technical follow-up questions related to an existing ...
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Unable to join pets stackexchange [duplicate]
I am already a member, but couldn't join Pets Stack Exchange
When I click, it says
You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to find this error, contact us.
On contact, it is recommended to ...
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Can we make image description required?
We all know that adding an image to a post would give something like this [![Enter image description here][1]][1]. Most people will just press the ask question button without adding it, even though ...
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Why does my Stack Overflow profile have questions and answers on opposite sides of the user activity page compared to other sites? [duplicate]
While looking at my user activity page, I noticed something odd. On most sites my questions are listed on the left side of the page and answers are on the right. (IE: Super User, Arqade, Meta Stack ...
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One specific user's username isn't showing up at all in some rooms on Firefox
This is a very specific bug. When actively in several particular chatrooms (but not all), AncientSwordRage's username does not show up in the room, displaying only a blue diamond. I haven't found ...
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Negative number of notifications [duplicate]
Something happened and I now see a negative notification counter in the top-right corner:
My best guess is that someone pinged me in a comment, and then deleted it around the time I clicked on the ...
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Is it possible for the Community BOT question analysis to occur at the time a user tries to post their question?
Over at Worldbuilding we regularly see questions with, eventually, an attached comment from the automated Community BOT that more-or-less says, "your post doesn't meet our basic expectations for ...
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Prompt users when writing an answer that should be a comment before they submit
I am a moderator on https://solana.stackexchange.com/. Most of my moderation tasks are handling answers that should be converted to comments.
I would like a to request that the user UI of Stack ...
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Concluding the Answer Assistant experiment
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, we ended the Answer Assistant experiment on the Stack Exchange sites where it was running - Raspberry Pi, Arts & Crafts, and User Experience.
We greatly appreciate the ...
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How can any users know if a mod is working in their interests in a system that by design hides moderator actions?
In the light of the moderator agreement, moderators get to know many userbase-breaking changes to the network BEFORE they are disclosed to the general public. Even in recent post about changes to the ...
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As a new user, why can't I 'favorite', 'upvote', or 'like' any helpful posts?
I literally just joined the Stack Exchange community about an hour ago.
Why am I unable to upvote, like, or favorite any posts?
I personally feel extremely excluded from the entire community. I ...
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Evolving comments: An experiment to encourage engagement and follow-up questions
Update May 6th, 2025
After reviewing the feedback on the comment changes, specifically regarding the plan to disable the "No longer needed" (NLN) flag during this experiment, we discussed ...
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Does "anywhere" mean "anywhere" If I'm applying to work at Stack Exchange?
Historically, where Stack Exchange is willing to hire has varied. I'm particularly interested in an upcoming (at some point) role for a community manager (no surprise there). We've historically and ...
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Updates to advertising guidelines
We’ve shared in the past how revenue sources such as advertising and site sponsorships are important because they allow us to reinvest back into the community. Historically, we’ve had strict ...
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Should we have the Formatting Sandbox be on the Top Questions list?
A couple days ago, I was looking for some questions to answer. The Formatting Sandbox was on the Top Questions list. Could we not have it there on all sites that have one? It takes up space and doesn'...
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Where can I seriously discuss my personal theory in physics? [duplicate]
I have a certain (very concrete) non-mainstream idea on dark matter, relativity theory and curvature of spacetime, with equations and hypotheses that may be verifiable/falsifiable.
If I ask a related ...
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Icons rendering issue with browser zoom
I happened upon this post from a long while ago, and thought, "That still happens for me." I went to the achievements window and went to 90% zoom, and this happened.
I am using up-to-date ...
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Legendary Badge has become a site badge rather than a user badge
Let's face it, some Stack Exchange sites are bigger than others by a large margin. As a result, if you go to the smaller sites, even ones that have been around over a decade, on their badges page you ...
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Where should I post questions related to the reliability and accuracy of certain Internet sites?
I want to upload a question related to the reliability and accuracy of sites or social media on the internet, but I don't know which site on Stack Exchange to upload it to.
Where should I post ...
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Why are there so many rules, and how can we figure them out? [duplicate]
I would think one would talk online, as they do in real life. That is apparently not allowed on here. Every question I ask is banned for violating some unreasonable rule. Every comment I make is ...
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After asking a question, when I select the best answer, should I leave a comment stating why? [duplicate]
After asking a question, when I select the best answer, should I leave a comment stating why?
It seems to me that I should. It's similar to leaving a comment with ways to improve a question or answer ...
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Aren't users supposed to be able to edit their own deleted questions?
A user on Stack Overflow meta recently complained about having a question deleted by community vote, initially seemingly unaware that our deletion system is generally "soft" and still allows ...
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Update the number of communities on 'About Stack Exchange' to 182
The number of communities on the About Stack Exchange page has been wrong for quite a long time. I can understand if (most of) the content of that page needs to be static for performance reasons, so ...
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Are there any "groups" in Stack Exchange just like we see in Reddit?
I'm a beginner in Stack Exchange. I came from Reddit, and there we have groups to related topics so we can post questions in those specific groups. Does Stack Exchange work similarly or not?
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Bulk resolving flags fails silently
Not sure if this is Staging Ground only. Posting it here to be safe.
I ran across a post in Staging Ground that was pure junk (now deleted). The user self-deleted the post, and the user was later ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net still only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
I could not possibly describe the issue any better than it is already described here: Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address [closed]
The question is ...
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