Unanswered Questions
470 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Please moderate Facebook comments on the SO page
Not a complaint or a whine, but a polite request because Facebook won't do it.
I reported the comment above, which was posted from a fake account using your name to entice people to send them crypto ...
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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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Tags cannot have accented characters?
On the newly created French Language & Usage (private beta started today), I tried to have a tag named évolution, but the accent on the é is lost. The SE engine really should allow accents on tags....
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Backwards the migration close reason text is
When choosing a migration path in the close dialog, the text associated with each option doesn't make sense when reading, since it puts the name of the site first and then the text "belongs on":
The ...
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(Completed) Site maintenance - Mon, Sept 16 2024, 21:00 UTC to Tue, Sept 17 2024, 2:00 UTC (Mon, Sept 16 2024, 5pm-10pm ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance has been completed]
We have planned network maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange users. The window is scheduled for Monday, September 16 2024, 21:00 UTC ...
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Typo in category for “Black or of African descent”
In the current version of The Loop, one of the options for racial background is spelt “Black or of African decent”, rather than “Black or of African descent”.
I tried notifying Sara Chipps by @ ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 00:00-03:00 AM UTC (Monday, August 22, 8:00-11:00 PM US/EDT)
tl;dr
Planned upgrades that will impact Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Network sites including Chat. All sites will be read-only for up to 3 hours beginning shortly after Tuesday, August 23, 2022 ...
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COMPLETED - Site maintenance - Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 9:00 PM-11:00 PM EDT (Thursday, October 24, 1:00 UTC - Thursday, October 24, 3:00 UTC)
[UPDATE 2 - Site maintenance has been completed]
[UPDATE - The maintenance window has been expanded by one hour in order to complete the planned updates and not postpone to later have yet another day ...
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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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Tag warning only shown for a second when I post directly after adding tags
When I do the following:
write the title and body of a question;
go to the tag field;
add a tag that triggers a tag warning;
do not defocus the tag window;
hit Post your question;
then I only see the ...
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Don't display "protected" notice if the question is locked or closed
If the question is locked, obviously new users can't post answers to it because no one can post answers. It seems somewhat redundant to list that box there. I'm not saying remove the protection from ...
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The black hole known as Meta Stack Apps
Firstly, there isn't a Meta for Stack Apps.
However, Stack Apps' help centre seems to disagree:
Meta Stack Apps is the part of the site where users discuss the workings and policies of Stack Apps ...
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Oneboxing a Stack Exchange post using HTTPS does not work
When you post a link from Stack Exchange into the chatbox using HTTPS, the link does not onebox. However, if you change the link to HTTP, it works. See the screenshot below:
HTTPS URLs should onebox, ...
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Please capitalize "muslims" in the description of Islam.SE on StackExchange.com
I noticed a small typo here:
https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic
Q&A for muslims, experts in Islam, and those interested in learning
more about Islam
Please capitalize "...
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Reduce the threshold for comment deletion with flags
I have it on good authority that it takes six flags from ordinary users to delete a comment. This makes no sense; it only takes five community votes to close a question, and three to delete a post. ...
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