Unanswered Questions
433 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Add links to official status pages in the read-only mode status message
When the site is in read-only mode, I get a message like this:
This site is currently in read-only mode.
Would it be possible to update that message to provide links to these resources on SE's ...
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How much more bandwidth is eaten up by SE in 2020 compared to 2012?
Many years ago, I asked the question How much bandwidth does SE eat up?
Nick Craver gave a detailed answer, and the short of it was a whopping 60TB of data per month!
I'm wondering how has SE's ...
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The Help Center page titled "Our model" doesn't describe … our model
The Help page whose title is "Our Model" (but whose URL slug is /help/stackexchange) is currently a random grab bag of policies, formatting help, and random questions.
I was hoping that a ...
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Dogfooding and Jobs - what's with SE using an external jobs portal and... not their own?
I've gotten back into the habit of checking the "work here" page on Stack Overflow, partially because it's a good way to read the tea leaves on the direction of the company.
It has, as far ...
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Partner content on the blog - what's the value of these?
The Stack Overflow blog was historically a means of communication for the company to the community, and eventually ended up being a way for the company to communicate with potential users of their ...
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Display top tags & percentiles from additional Stack Exchange sites on Careers
Are the "top tags & percentiles" from Stack Exchange sites other than Stack Overflow displayed in the Careers site?
If not can they be added?
If they are, then what are the requirements for them ...
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My Best Week, Month, Quarter, Year
I'd like request a way for the Stack Exchange reputation leagues to have a section where it displays "My best..." in the following categories with the perma-link to each. As an example:
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A lot of sites are going to be 10 this year - could we do something to celebrate?
Admittedly, the other site I mod is 11, and I embarrassingly missed the anniversary in the midst of a bunch of things. I had a mod go "My community is coming up on its 10 year anniversary, and I ...
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How to link to open-source contributions?
On my http://careers.stackoverflow.com profile, there is a place to add Open Source projects.
I don't actually own any open source projects, but I contribute to a number. The value of this ...
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Careers.StackOverflow for freelancing work?
There's already a careers.stackover for "regular jobs." Are there any plans for expanding this to help people find freelancing work on smaller projects?
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Will Stack Exchange switch away from SPDY (fast enough)?
There's an old (2.5 years) question asking Will Stack Exchange support SPDY?, which was answered with a "not in the foreseeable future".
Fast forward those 2.5 years, and now at least parts of SE ...
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Stack Exchange tags sets : exclude tag
Tag sets in Stack Exchange are very useful, and I particularly like the wild card, however, I think it would be even more useful if it were possible to add an "except tag(s)" to the sets.
For ...
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Add an honors & awards section
Could an "Honors & Awards" section be added to our Careers 2.0 profiles?
I could put such accolades in my personal statement, but a separate section for these offering a more structured approach ...
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Is there a place to get the textual overview (what is on-topic) of all sites?
Between:
Which computer science / programming Stack Exchange sites do I post on?
Does Stack Exchange have an Economics section?
and other random guidance I've found by perusing the "on-topic / ...
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Selected "Guest questions" from other SE sites
Some questions could be asked on multiple SE sites, for example this gamedev question is likely to interest some users of math.SE. Since cross-posting is rather discouraged (for a good reason) it ...