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Chat messages don’t show up unless I reload
Recently, unless I reload the page, new chat messages sent by other people don’t show up. I only see my messages and messages that were already there when I joined the room.
Also, when I send messages,...
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Should we, how and when should we triggering off a vote on a moderator agreement violation about the rebrand?
I believe that aspects of the rebrand violate the moderator agreement, and triggering a moderator vote may be the only way to try to change it if all else fails.
While there's a process to vote I'm ...
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Tag searches return at most half the required results
Steps to reproduce:
Click on a tag.
Check how many results you have set per page: 15/30/50.
Count the number of results you see on the page.
Expected: assuming the total results are greater than the ...
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Language labels on code blocks look as though they're part of the code in the block. Can this be changed?
After encountering the issue with misidentified languages in code blocks, I went to look at my old questions and answers in case any of them were affected.
Even in situations where the language was ...
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Broken “Show all” links to starred messages in several Chat rooms on ru.stackoverflow.com
In a chat room used as a lobby, the Show all link that should lead to all starred messages contains an extra / at the end:
https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/156016//?tab=stars
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Stack Exchange Lobby entry-point link missing from hamburger menu pop-up
For low rep (under 20 reps), the main chat link takes them directly to the Lobby chat.
This works perfectly. However, the chat option from the hamburger menu works differently:
This takes you to ...
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Wildcards (*) in search are not expanded when next to a # symbol
Steps to reproduce:
Go to Stack Overflow and search for [c#*]
Expected: The search will expand to include any tag that starts with "c#", like [c#-3], [c#-4], etc. An example would be a ...
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Assessing the impact of the 'New contributor' label
We are looking for community insight on the effectiveness of the 'New contributor' label. This label is visible for a week following their first post.
From what I understand (this was built before my ...
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Clarify the security reporting guidance for Stack Internal
This is going to be a bit broad, but I think it's worth discussing, even with the Needs more focus line.
The general guidance for reporting security issues for Stack Internal (formerly Stack Overflow ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network - November 2025
Today, I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
Focus areas include;
AI Assist
Stack Overflow Redesign
Supporting all technical conversations
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Default text color -- very bright light blue -- is very hard to read
I use high-quality monitors. I have older eyes. The default title and link colors on many stack sites -- very bright, light cyan (blue) -- is very very hard to read. I'd guess the contrast between ...
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What are the statistics on moderator decisions being overturned by staff? [closed]
"Stack Exchange moderators are not always correct and their actions
are subject to community oversight and appeal. Moderators are users
elected from the community and can make errors in judgment ...
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Message options seem to be broken on mobile chat
[FireFox 144.0.2/Android 14]
Two things:
Trying to get the link of a chat message on mobile gives a link to the whole room (eg https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq#), rather than ...
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Can't create new chat rooms
Trying to create a new chat room goes to an error page: https://chat.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/rooms/
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New Chat room onboarding experience is live
Effective today (November 19, 2025), Chat guidelines will be displayed to users upon entering a Chat room. As previously announced, Chat room owners have the option to establish room-specific ...
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This question already has answers... down there in that other box
I find the formatting on this page a bit odd. "This question already has answers here: / Closed 15 years ago", and then formatted as if it is an unrelated piece of information "Possible ...
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Doing a tag search and changing the sorting via the navigation buttons breaks queries with operators
Steps to reproduce:
Enter a search query that contains binary operators. A single "or" operator is enough: for Meta Stack Exchange, you can use [bug] or [discussion].
Try to click on the ...
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How these 2 questions can be classed as "Duplicates" [migrated]
I asked a question earlier on SO
Windows 11 - PowerShell command Get-ADGroupMember throws error
And it has been closed because it was deemed a duplicate of this question:
Import-Module : The specified ...
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Do we still need the Teams sidebar?
The Teams sidebar was intended to ease the transition from Teams being an integrated part of Stack Overflow being a decoupled product.
At this point, it's been a while and one would assume most '...
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The Stack (Overflow) Internal branding is confusing
This is really a question in 2 parts — I've seen the product formerly known as Teams referred to as both Stack Internal and Stack Overflow Internal. I'd prefer the former but… clarity would be useful, ...
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Tag cleanup found many questions using the tag for an old feature. Should it get its own tag?
I was happily working my way through a tag cleanup where several tags were supposed to be merged into a new activity-tab tag. The new tag is meant encompass the Activity tab of a user profile. ...
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Why can't I join 'Movies & TV'? [duplicate]
Since I tried yesterday for the first time to join 'Movies & TV' I keep getting this error:
You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to find this error, contact us.
This is me ...
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Opinion-based questions are missing from SEDE
I can't find posts from the new opinion-based questions experiment in SEDE. I've tried it with a slightly older one where I know the Id (79805930) and it is not in the Posts nor the PostsWithDeleted ...
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Save an activity log
What about a feature that lets you save the activity log in a csv file? That would allow saving my activity log before I delete a user profile or have something to check and search offline to get my ...
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Use 'correct' site name for English.SE (and others) on SEDE
The Stack Exchange Data Explorer uses inconsistent naming for English Language & Usage Stack Exchange. The main site is abbreviated to English, the meta site uses the canonical name, with 'and' ...
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Area 51 chat icon not rendering
The icon does not seem to render in various places, such as the room info in a chat user's profile, next to the RO actions, the button above the title, the footer, oneboxes, and the browser favicon.
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Edit button looks enabled even when editing is prevented
I just commented a question, stating I would edit it, then realized I will not, since my account was banned from doing so.
There are of course several ways this could have been avoided, including ...
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Comments don't have links on review pages
On Q&A pages, comments (whether already existing or just created by you), have timestamps with links to the exact comment, like e.g. GitHub.
This is not the case when reviewing a post (example); ...
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I am Ash, Staff Product Manager, and this is how I work
I’m Ash Zade, a Staff Product Manager, and I have been at Stack for a little over three years, but I have been a Stack user for over a decade. I started my career at Stack on the SaaS side as a ...
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Does the removal of guidance on avoiding sarcasm from the Code of Conduct mean sarcasm is now acceptable?
I noticed that the current Code of Conduct on Stack Exchange no longer includes the previous advice to "Avoid sarcasm and be careful with jokes – tone is hard to decipher online." This was ...
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Deleted/moved posts make the percentage of a users posts over 100
I was testing in my test room, when I moved a post into the Trash Room. I later noticed on the Chat home page (Stack Overflow Chat version), when hovering over my name, the tooltip said I had 107% of ...
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Make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable
Feature request: make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable (the new Ask page is used on some Stack Exchange Sites such as Super User and Ask Ubuntu).
Rationale: that is the behavior of the ...
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Will a tag be automatically deleted if it has no questions but is still being followed by someone?
Suppose someone posts a question with the tag abc. A second user visits the tag wiki and clicks the Watch tag button. Later, a third user removes the tag from the only question that had it, ...
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Post /revisions (versions) page Source page copy & paste has double line spacing
When you follow a "Source" link on a post's /revisions (versions) page and copy and paste it the line endings are doubled. (Windows 10 Firefox)
(It happens in and out of code blocks. My ...
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Copy button on fenced code blocks copies mixed Windows and Unix line endings
There's a new-to-me Copy button on fenced code blocks on various stack exchange sites now. When pressed, it puts a copy of the code block to the client's clipboard, along with a couple lines of ...
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Questions recently mass-retagged with [company-update] incorrectly have the tag sorted last
On Meta sites, the required tags (e.g. bug) will appear far left, regardless of whether they are the most frequent tag (example). Red moderator-only tags (e.g. status-declined) will appear just to the ...
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Tags about AI here on MSE
The latest company announcement about AI was posted with a new tag artificial-intelligence, which only has that one question tagged with it so far. There's another tag ai-tools with 11 questions ...
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I have a permanent -1 unread message [duplicate]
I have a permanent -1 unread message
This was triggered by reading the "room culture" announcement.
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We’ve made an addition to our Terms of Service – November 2025
Today we’ve added a new section to the Terms of Service. The new section is an “AI Addendum” and pertains to features that utilize AI interactions, such as AI Assist and Question Assistant.
The full ...
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Links inside spoilers don't work anymore
When a link is included in a spoiler, clicking it does nothing. You can try it out below:
Right-clicking the link and choosing something like 'Open link in new tab' works, but is more cumbersome.
It ...
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No AI content, fine, now how about AI agents?
"Siri, vote every day in a random time two random posts of myHatedEnemy down. Also send a report about the activites of his recently downvoted posts."
They will automatize tasks. Today they ...
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How to enable Typescript code snippets in Stack Overflow? [migrated]
So far I see Javascript as the default (and seemingly the only) language option when creating a new code snippet. Indeed, the run produces an error as the JS interpreter doesn't understand TS.
Is ...
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New spam dashboard can't count (there are five statuses, not four)
The recent auto-flagged spam dashboard has counting issues:
This info box pops up from the "i" icon next to "Status". There are very clearly five possible statuses. Please change &...
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Don't send me notifications (and emails) for company update posts
Recently I got an unwanted notification and subsequent email for the company update: Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines.
Note: this is a "message" notification for the ...
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Wrong post notice for an answer migrated with its question then subsequently deleted
This question was initially asked on the main Stack Overflow site, then migrated to the meta site along with this answer. The answer was then deleted on the meta site via regular delete votes. However,...
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After checking "room guidelines" notification, I have a negative one (-1) notifications badge in my inbox [duplicate]
My inbox shows negative one (-1) notifications.
Not sure how I got there, somewhere around clicking on the notification for the Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines post. Refreshing didn'...
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“Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?” should be made more clear
After having replied to Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?, I realized that the question is ill stated and that I was fooled by the authors. The question ...
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How come this question doesn't have an Answer field? [closed]
Its missing an answer field: How to avoid that a user control changes its size when placed in tab page?
Shouldn't all question have an answer field like any other QA here? eg
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Notification about comments under question [duplicate]
As I know, there should be a notification for every comment under a question (answer by Jeff Atwood)
But for the question Inbox indicator shows negative counter, the comment from @Bergi is not in my ...
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If you don't have a chat room, the "Set your room's culture" notification takes you to a 404 page
It's there in the title: if you don't have a chat room, the "Set your rooom's culture" notification takes you to a 404 page. Well, that makes sense, because I assume it's trying to take me ...