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Do the automated deletion scripts not run on questions that aren't viewed that often?
The only check that pays any attention to views is RemoveAbandonedQuestions which requires a low number of views on the question, and thus wouldn't make any sense to also require it to be viewed more ...
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How can one see when a query was cached in SEDE?
For an answer to your direct question:
How can one see when a query result was last cached in SEDE?
One can't. This information is simply not exposed to SEDE.
Cached plans and queries are cleared ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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What is the refresh frequency of the Stack Exchange API?
According to one of the developers back then:
Every response from the API can be cached for up to a minute, so making the same request multiple times in that time-frame typically won't return ...
GlorfindelMod
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Extreme caching issue allowing answers to closed questions
It's still possible to answer a closed question within 4 hours. That user just squeaked in. Here's when the question was closed:
And here's when the question was answered:
So they just beat it, ...
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How can I avoid the Data Explorer cache?
Expanding on Laurel's idea and my own comment: suppose you have a query with a parameter named seed. Then you can hook on running the query and give the seed a new value with this small JavaScript ...
GlorfindelMod
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Some questions show a tag that nobody put there
I wrote an SEDE query to try and find more occurrences of those "ghost tags" and got some very strange results. The query is not so efficient, so I limited it to 100 results.
Unfortunately, ...
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Are SEDE results ever cached on client side, or solely on server side?
I wonder if in some cases they are also cached on the client side.
I'm no HTTP caching expert, but technically maybe yes? (as in- they could be in a standards-conforming user-agent / client software)....
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How can I avoid the Data Explorer cache?
I found a solution:
Note that if the query requires you to fill in parameters before running, you'll only get the cached results if you enter the same values as were specified for the cached run...
A:...
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Google cache returns the mobile version of a question
I think this is due to mobile first indexing. I don’t believe that Google stores a second copy for you to access, but you may be able to find the information you want through Archive.org, the data ...
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Icons For Hot Questions Are Wrong
This keeps happening every time a new site is added. Clearly, something's broken with the sprite sheet update process.
Inspecting the CSS for the site icons, it looks like this (using the SO icon as ...
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User with one badge, but can't see any in user page?
Yes, this seems to be a caching issue; no matter how often you reload a new (and affected) user's profile page, you won't see the actual badge earned (until some timer expires, which can take a number ...
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Per-site Meta reputation updating... slowly
It has always been this way - the per-site metas don't update reputation on their main sites fast.
The reason is presumably the load on the server. Especially on the bigger sites like SO, ...
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