Questions tagged [collectives]
Collectives™ on Stack Overflow are dedicated spaces where developers can find content that's organized around an area of technical practice or a technology provider's product suite. Use this tag for questions about Collectives; if your post relates to a specific collective, you can also use the tag for that collective, if one exists.
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The box to contribute an Article in Collective is partially hidden
Here: https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/php?tab=articles
I see one box on top left that is behind the top bar:
When simulating a smaller screen, the whole box is visible:
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Collectives: remove "implicitly recommended" from answers to downvoted questions
According to the answer to this question:
For Collectives, there are two types of "Recommended" answers:
explicitly recommended: A Recognized Member or Admin of the Collective has chosen ...
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Collectives Update: AWS, Twilio and looking ahead
Collectives on Stack Overflow moves into a new stage this month.
The AWS Collective is shifting over to community oversight as of today. AWS has been an outstanding partner in exploring the concept of ...
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Proposed changes to Twilio-related tags
The Developer Advocacy Team at Twilio, who work with Stack Overflow on the Collective, have done an assessment of the Twilio-related tags on Stack Overflow and have proposed changes to several tags. ...
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Shouldn't we enforce the few existing rules for Collectives?
Right now we have few rules (beyond the enforceable SO rules) specific to each Collective (for instance, rules for RM selection within r-collective).
In the case of the CI/CD Collective, there are ...
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If we don't have any programming collectives other than R and PHP, what's the point of them and why keep them?
I've just noticed that R and PHP are the only programming languages with their own Collective. A lot of the "discussions" in the PHP Collective are more fitted to be questions (such as this ...
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People blocked from asking questions should be blocked from posting discussions
People are abusing public discussions to ask for help. Not only they are abusing the site and evading restrictions, they are also wasting time of people in collectives. They post non-discussion topics ...
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Add Discussions to the Network Profile
I refer to the activity tab of a user's network profile fairly frequently to see what they've been up to across the network. However, it doesn't show Discussion activity, which I think would be ...
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Please implement a rate-limit for discussions
There is currently a spam wave going on in Discussions which was noticed here by Luciano. What is noteworthy here is that this spam wave is done majorly by only two user accounts and that they have ...
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Extremely poor text wrapping in nested Discussions on mobile
I flagged a Discussion, and found this:
The flag icon is tiny, the word Flagged is wrapped every two letters, and Share is wrapped partway through.
If it matters, I'm on mobile iOS.
To protect the ...
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Quality of discussions in collectives [closed]
In particular I'm looking at the mobile dev collective here, maybe this is uniquely bad. But looking at the discussions- on the first 2 pages of discussions, more than 80% are downvoted, most of them ...
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How can we improve the quality of discussions in the Mobile Development collective?
I'm in the Mobile Development collective and the discussions seem to be adding questionable value. Sorting by highest score shows there's a few opinion-based discussions that fit well, but for a ...
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What's going on with Articles on Microsoft Azure Collective?
Recently, multiple articles per day are getting posted to Microsoft Azure Collective. Based on that publishing rate, I got a little suspicious, so started looking at a couple of them and it seems that ...
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Can a "No LLM Usage" banner be added for the Collectives Article box?
Currently, when a user uses the answer box [on Stack Overflow], there was (should be?*) a box reminding users to not post LLM-generated content. It said something like this:
Reminder: AI-generated ...
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Collective name and new question count overlaps
If the Collective name is too long it overlaps with the new contents count. Not a big issue but I feel a truncation would be better.
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Some API requests to /users are failing with status code 404 errors
I was wondering whether there are recent any changes to the /users endpoint of Stack Exchange API? I was sending queries that worked previously (also worked yesterday), but I got error code id of 404 ...
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New Collective: Mobile Development – Scope, community, and questions
Today, the Mobile Development Collective is launching on Stack Overflow. In case you’re new to Stack Overflow or want a refresher, collectives helps users find trusted answers faster, connect with ...
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Collectives Updates to the Community Bulletin in the Right Sidebar
Update — January 19, 2024
We are concluding this experiment effective January 19 and the module will no longer appear for users.
The objective was to increase traffic to the Collectives-specific ...
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Should recognized members of Collectives "recommend" answers associated with their own posts?
This question is inspired by this now deleted (and locked because it was a rejected migration) question.
Stack Overflow has a number of Collectives that are intended to "help you find trusted ...
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The user research behind Discussions
As you might have noticed, we launched an experiment on Stack Overflow called Discussions (currently only available within the NLP Collective). This post is the origin story behind this feature, ...
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Please don't show Collectives surveys to people who aren't in Collectives
I just got a "How are we doing? Help us improve Twilio" banner survey notification when I visited a twilio question: Separating User Speech from Chatbot Speech in Real-Time Audio Streams ...
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Font size for comments in Collective article is bigger than comments on a normal post
While engaging with an article within the Collective section, I noticed a discrepancy in the font size of comments compared to regular posts. Specifically, the font size in the Collective seems larger ...
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The add post to Collection search box shows incorrect vote and view counts
The process for adding posts to collective collections includes a search box. When a post appears in the results, information is provided about the post.
However, as can be seen below, the vote and ...
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Who is going to handle flags on content in the Collectives discussions feature?
A new site area for subjective discussions has been announced in the WeAreDevelopers talk and on SO Labs, scheduled for release in August 2023. My understanding is that the feature is just for ...
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Launching 2 new collectives: PHP and NLP
Today, two new collectives are launching on Stack Overflow. As with the previous two that were launched in March these will be community-led and community-driven.
Check out the new collectives here, ...
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