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Low quality checks should be made earlier when asking questions
Adam Lear requested that I make this feature request, which is related to Unspecified error when creating low quality questions on desktop
This issue as stated is fixed, I now get the correct ...
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Please update the list of actions triggering an audit failure
As mentioned in some previous questions, like this one and that one, I have observed that innocent actions, like editing and downvoting, cause an audit test to fail.
However, editing should not ...
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Chat transcript should show times in the current timezone, not UTC, to match the live room
Chat room pages currently show time in the user's local time.
However, chat transcripts currently show time going off the UTC time zone, regardless of what time zone you're in.
Could transcripts show ...
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Chat history is completely lost when a user deletes their account
On Stack Overflow Chat we've had a couple of repeat trolls in the lobby; this probably wasn't as much a problem historically when chat couldn't be accessed by 1-rep users. These users are often kicked ...
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Unspecified error when creating low quality questions on desktop
Following up on a user report, I attempted to create a question on DIY.SE and was met with an unspecified error on creation (this is on Windows 11, latest version of Edge):
On mobile (iOS 26, Safari),...
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Where do I post a question about a standard?
I asked a clarification about the iCalendar standard on SO, but it was closed.
Where do I post a question about a standard commonly used in programming?
I looked at this post but seems not to talk ...
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Pagination calculation on /questions is wrong on the last page of results
Steps to reproduce:
Go to any site. Easiest is to pick some site with the fewest questions. Gen AI is at the top of the list.
Check the /questions page. For Gen AI it shows there are 490 questions ...
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How to do fast pagination in the Data Explorer?
I'm trying to find the questions of a deleted user for a tag. Without any kind of pagination, I get 429 errors and never any results.
So now I've written this query using skip-to-creationdate ...
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New User Chat link broken
This has gone on pretty much as far as I know, surprised no one else has asked it.
When a new user joins a room (under 20 rep - I believe this stopped happening with accounts created after the lobbies)...
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SEDE is hitting the 429 error way too often due to how SEDE works
There have been a couple of previous reports on 429 errors when using SEDE. There is one marked status-norepro and I'm here to re-raise that issue, not as a support ticket but as a bug.
Here is ...
reneMod
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Cloudflare email protection has a high false-positive rate
This is similar to Disable Cloudflare's "Email Address Obfuscation" feature, but is reporting on the fact that the detection has a high false-positve rate (whereas the similar question ...
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Why does this tag say there are 3 questions with this tag when I only see 1? [closed]
Searching for nvidia-triton on Stack Overflow tag search says it currently has 3 questions:
However, the questions tagged nvidia-triton page only shows one question:
Why? Does it count deleted ...
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Still have this issue: Unable to post questions, with "An error occured submitting the question"
Rene commented that
It's normal to have the "this is fixed answer" first, only to have an
actual build land on the sites later on. I would wait for a 2025.10.17
or higher and then re-test. –...
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Prevent users from posting an answer on posts they VTC, and vice versa
Occasionally one same user posts an answer and VTC the question, not necessarily in that order. Stack Exchange can, and ought to, implement functionality that preempts that contradictory behavior.
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Moderator message sidebar says it's from "Stack Overflow moderators" even on non-SO sites
I am a diamond moderator on Puzzling Stack Exchange. When I go to read a moderator message thread, the sidebar box titled "What is a moderator message?" starts:
This is a private, ...
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Clarification on "one question per post" [closed]
I understand the whole "one question per post" in general terms. But I'd like the forum's view on a particular example:
I posted (on SO) a code snippet and asked for help optimising its ...
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Don't mix up relative time with absolute times in the edit history
Edit history contains both relative times and absolute times. Example from https://superuser.com/posts/1926628/revisions (mirror):
Proposal: Don't mix up relative time with absolute times in the edit ...
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Not able to click link for "Invited" chat tab
I locate to this dropdown using my mobile phone and choose the chat option.
This opens the chat in mobile phone. There I notice this.
In this image as seen, the invited tab is not a hyperlink (it's a ...
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Does Stack Exchange policy discourage deleting your own answer after downvotes/criticism is received?
I've seen comments on Super User Meta where users call it "toxic" or "bad behavior" to post an answer, and then delete it when it receives negative feedback or downvotes.
I've ...
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Introduce “Knowledge Trails” linking questions that represent progressive learning steps
Often, several questions form a natural learning sequence, for instance:
“What is entropy?”
“How is entropy defined in statistical mechanics?”
“Why does entropy increase in isolated systems?”
Each ...
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Bug regarding "automatically move to chat" option [duplicate]
I was having a really long "clarification" process on this answer, so this "automatically move to chat" option appeared. I tried clicking it, then this is what happened.
Initially,
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Editing messages sometimes stops it from being a reply
Sometimes when I edit a chat message replying to another, it loses the reply formatting. It doesn't happen often, but it happens enough to be annoying.
Opera GX, up-to-date, Windows 11, up-to-date.
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Wrong chat link in the sidebar on the "Stack Overflow in Russian" site
Recently, starting from September 26, the chat link in the sidebar on the "Stack Overflow in Russian" Stack Exchange site changed and started pointing to a specific room instead of a list of ...
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Logging in with the Chrome Sign In With Google dropdown always fails
When I visit a site and login with the dropdown that shows up on the top right in Chrome (Version 140.0.7339.210 (Official Build) (64-bit))
It errors and I get this popup
This is the Learn More link....
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Let us select messages for reply/star/etc from the transcript on mobile chat
I usually wake up to at least 4 chat notifications in my inbox. It would be nice if when I click on a notification and get directed to the transcript, you could select messages (the same way you do ...
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Replied-to message preview is easy to accidentally click when trying to select the message on mobile
The reply indicator on mobile that shows up for older messages for context
is very easy to accidentally click on mobile, and it's annoying to have the page scroll up instead of selecting the message. ...
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Arguing one's innocence after the thread is deleted (accessing the content of the deleted thread) [closed]
Situation: a user is accused of violating the code of conduct in a comments section, and the comments thread has been deleted by the moderator. The user believes that their words/statements were taken ...
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Spammer's user name remains visible in chat after user has been destroyed
We've just seen a spammer in chat, the message was quickly removed and the user destroyed. However, the name of the spammer remains clearly visible.
Obviously, if the name is related to the spammed ...
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Inline reply text shows text of deleted replied-to message
I expect that a reply to a deleted/removed message won't show the content of a deleted/removed message, but it does. Ex. message A and B, with B replying to A some time/messages after the posting of A....
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Allow moderators to provide a reason for disputing spam or rude/abusive flags directly
Sometimes, a user casts a spam or rude/abusive (red) flag that's in good faith (e.g., a post matches a prior known spammer's post but is not spam). The general policy for borderline flags that were ...
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Where to ask about the frequency of DNS misconfiguration?
The Unbound recursive DNS resolver has several hardening options. Some of these options can cause some domains to fail to resolve. I want to find out roughly how many legitimate sites have DNS (mis)...
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Community Asks Sprint Announcement - October/November 2025
Update on November 4, 2025
The results of the sixth Community Asks Sprint are posted here.
The sixth Community Asks Sprint is coming up soon (end of October), though the last one concluded only a few ...
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Can see the Close link, & number of close votes, below questions on sites where reputation is too low
I have viewed many questions on sites where I don't have the vote-to-close privilege, with the "Close" link below them never being shown (since viewing it requires, on most sites, a ...
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Answerer’s name not always given [duplicate]
Today I noticed that for a number of the Stack Exchange sites, the ID of a person giving an answer isn’t always displayed.
Here is one example:
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Author widgets are not shown for answers anymore
Something is missing here; I can't see who answered anymore:
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Blocked tag can be restored with rollback
Consider this question: Squareroot of a number (revision 6)
The algebra tag was blocked on Math Stack Exchange, but I restored it with a rollback.
Is this a bug? If so, can it be fixed?
Note: This is ...
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Incentivise curating sites through flagging, reviewing, closing, etc [duplicate]
A pretty thankless task I do a lot is going through the review queues, closing questions, and flagging.
Given how important curating the site is to maintain quality, it seems weird we're not rewarded ...
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How 'frequent' are the questions on the Frequent tab?
One of the tabs on the Questions page, currently hidden under the 'More' dropdown, is 'Frequent'. It used to have a tooltip "questions with the most links", but how many links are we talking ...
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"403 Forbidden" for images on i.sstatic.net
I'm getting "403 Forbidden" for images loading from https://i.sstatic.net
I first noticed it for profile pictures, including mine here on meta (which is the link in the image above. When I ...
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How to deal with questions where a solution is posted by the asker in the question body?
I stumbled upon a phenomenon on superuser where quite a few people answered their own question in the question itself and, despite reminders to do so, never put the solution in an answer. This appears ...
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Prompt for chat feeds should use "https://" instead of "http://"
As a user with access to update a chat room's feeds, I see this prompt:
New feed items from the URL "http://" will be posted ...
Most feeds that people will want to connect to chatrooms ...
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hr breaking formatting
I was just working on a question, when I was adding a note at the bottom:
For some reason, this made the formatting break. I only prefer using hr for lines, but I also tested it with ---, and it then ...
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Could we get some clarity over the Stack Exchange brand being sunset?
For many years - despite often doing business as "Stack Overflow", the company behind the network has formally been called "Stack Exchange Inc". I've complained for many years that ...
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Cannot register in some stack communities: "You cannot register at this time."
I haven't been able to join French Language and Christianity communities for months. I cannot understand what the problem is. It shows me this:
You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to ...
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Preventing Duplicates: Partial Answer Overlap vs. Distinct Scope/Intent
Here is the situation: Somebody asked, "I've learned from book X (which covers subject that called Morse theory) and I want to take the next step. What should I learn now?"
He got some ...
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Missing "Report Ad" button on initial ad display
In addition to the recent errors in the report ad interface (I have experienced this and this in recent weeks) the initial ads being displayed on academia (and presumably other sites, although I only ...
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Where does an ex-moderator ask whether or not information is public?
I was a moderator on the Cryptography Stack Exchange until I left via inactivity due to family and health issues. If I have a question about whether or not a particular moderator ability is public ...
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Join us for Community-a-thon 2025, starting October 17
tl;dr
Our sixth Community-a-thon will run from October 17 to 24.
This is an annual event where staff at Stack Overflow are encouraged
to participate on the Stack Exchange network.
The scale of the ...
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Did the policy on foreign languages in the HNQ change or is this a bug?
According to this eleven year old post the question below should not be on the HNQ:
an etwas (D) festhalten vs. sich an etwas (D) festhalten
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Imgur is now blocked in the UK - should images embedded from Imgur be re-uploaded in posts?
Last month, Imgur started blocking users from the United Kingdom from their site. For British users, a stub image with "Content not available in your region" is served instead, meaning that ...