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Code blocks now have a header with a language tag and a Copy button. While this feature probably addresses a very old request, it poses multiple problems: the copy button is only useful for very long ...
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When experiments are enabled, it appears that if a comment is in "reply" to a comment that is then deleted, a "[deleted] [deleted]" place holder is instead shown, rather than just ...
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In chat today, multiple users send a message consisting of the @ symbol followed by the first three letters of a user's username. This happened for me after typing @, typing the first three letters, ...
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In the current comments experiment, why are older dates displayed uniformly as "over a year ago"? Noticed it reading this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67260205 Comments are not part ...
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This is how Stack Overflow looks when you visit it the very first time There are four dismissable dialogs/announcements there and two things in the sidebar begging for attention. You have to dismiss ...
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We are evaluating a conceptual feature of the platform that would seek to pair askers and available experts in the community in a live session format. Beginning today, we are running an experiment to ...
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The style of comments has become very eye-catching now, and I have to scroll down a lot to see the next reply. If comments are so important, they should be published as answers. In short, is there a ...
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When asking a question (like How to use code (`(?{ ... })) in right side of substitute?), it seems the proposed "similar questions" ignore any tags assigned, mostly using the title of the ...
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How can I exclude myself from Stack Overflow's experimental features? I am already bored with comment new feature. Now they have added another option I have zero idea if they have reached out to and ...
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The voting experiment announcement was to be monitored until 2024-12-23. This is probably why there was no feedback to my post there for ten days now. Hence, I am re-posting it as a separate question: ...
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I started a bounty a few days ago (Fill form fields in Colab notebook from URL query parameters) and for the life of me I can not find the bounty list. And I've been around SO for a while. Shouldn't ...
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"enter image description here" is such a common sight, I think it's obvious there's a UX problem here. Some thoughts: Should SO block submission if the string exists? Why are these links to ...
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Visiting https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/gft and attempting to scroll creates some fireworks on my Chrome on MacOS Sonoma (browser in incognito mode, no extensions). I seem to be unable to ...
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I tend to get all these user(number) accounts mixed up all the time. The generated gravatars don't help (much) and sometimes people change theirs. What if I could specify that I want user12345678 ...
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A staging ground question has an outstanding major issue, but it also has a minor formatting issue that I can fix. I click edit, fix the formatting, and try to click the submit button, which is not in ...
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I've seen several instances where reviewers have left a comment with feedback but forgot to leave a review. For example, in this question two users left a comment but forgot to submit a review. I ...
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When composing or editing a post, if you click the preview, the text area becomes focused. Here are two main problems: I scrolled the preview to the end, accidentally clicked it and... ARGH! The page ...
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Too many times I've caught myself falling down a Meta rabbit hole, and not being able to get back (quickly) without putting stackoverflow.com in my address bar. I figure there should be a little ...
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When editing a previous version of a post, the following warning box shows. As you see, there's a red dotted border around the box, which I think is quite unclear. Can it be fixed to be similar to ...
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When you upvote or downvote on something, you have a few minutes to change your mind. But when you award a bounty, it's just one click and it's done. There isn't even a confirmation! I've just ...
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When I'm trying to follow a company page on Stack Overflow, it redirects me to a new page containing a JSON response: {"following":false,"success":true} I think there's an error ...
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There is no undo button in the temporary success message, after unsaving a saved item. The menu items are already very close together so what if I click the wrong option by accident? I can't undo it.
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The recommended way of directly including Tailwind CSS according to their documentation is to add <script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script> to the HTML head. But when ...
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It bothers me that, whenever I click on an image inside a post, I get redirected to the site where the image is hosted (Imgur in this case). Can we make it so images are shown as an overlay in the ...
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At the top of the new inbox, there's a dropdown where you can select if you want to see "All" or only your "Unread" notifications. When you pick "Unread" and then reload ...
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