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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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