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Tag searches return about half the required results and shows about double the total
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Results of the October 2025 Community Asks Sprint: copy button for code blocks, and more
The sixth Community Asks Sprint, which is the final one of 2025, has now concluded. The focus was on site design and usability, and we got a number of requests for things to improve. The first ask we ...
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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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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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Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines
Update November 19, 2025
The new Chat room onboarding modals are now in operation, with room-specific guidelines displayed upon room entry.
Some of the feedback and suggestions from this post will be ...
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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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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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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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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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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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We’re releasing our proactive anti-spam measure network-wide
TL;DR
Our anti-spam measure, which leverages similarities in recently deleted spam to help delete new spam, is now enabled network-wide. Our findings during its week-long trial on Super User indicate ...
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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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A First Look: Stack Overflow Redesign
A little while ago, we started a conversation about evolving the look and feel of Stack Overflow. Your feedback was clear: you wanted less marketing and more product. You were right. We're sorry we ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stack Overflow Redesign: Questions
This is the fourth post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains the ...
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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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Please welcome V2Blast back to the Community Team!
I often tell people that I have the singular pleasure of working with some of the best community managers in the industry. But this team, great as it is, isn’t perfect. You see, we had a weird “...
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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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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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Spevacus has joined us as a Community Manager
I’m excited to announce the newest member of the Community Management Department, Spevacus! He will be joining Hoid, JNat, and Sasha on the Community Engagement and Enablement team, reporting to me. ...
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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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Introducing a new proactive anti-spam measure
We’re testing this on Super User as of October 23, 2025
We’ve activated the anti-spam measure on Super User as a trial run. The Super User mods were excited for their site to be our test subject, and ...
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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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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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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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Marking "Set your rooms' culture" notification as read gives you a negative number of notifications
Recently I was sent a notification about the ability to set room guidelines. However, while this shows in the inbox, it seems to be counted wrong. If the notification is unread, then the red number is ...
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Stack Overflow Redesign: Color and Typography
This is the second post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains the ...
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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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Stack Overflow Redesign: Navigation and Homepage
This is the third post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains the project'...