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Our Design Vision for Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network

For those who don’t know me, I’m the Director of Design at Stack Overflow. I’m responsible for the team of designers who work on the public sites. The visuals of Stack Overflow and the network sites ...
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How'd you get started?

OK, it feels like this is tapering off a little, so I'm going to do the same thing as last week ... I'll still check in here and read, but I'm probably not going to post much more here. The next ...
Philippe's user avatar
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How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?

I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
13 votes
3 answers
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Opining a successful-edit-count-based two tier suggested edit system

This is a bit of a follow up to the 'answer' here. From the time editing was first introduced, it's a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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3 answers
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What's the best way to propose edits to the banning FAQ here on MSE?

In general, faq posts here on MSE are community-curated, which means that as the system changes, posts can become outdated until members of the community bother to edit them. (This was something that ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
16 votes
1 answer
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Cannot login to chat.meta.stackexchange.com; server error when trying to access chat homepage

I just recreated my MSE account after having deleted it a few years ago. Now, I'm trying to log in to Meta Stack Exchange Chat, and whenever I try to do so, it just fails silently and I'm still logged ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
34 votes
1 answer
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For edit-suggestors with a streak of N approvals, only require one approval for their next suggested edit

Proposal: If a <2k user's past N suggested edits are all approved ("good edit streak"), make their following suggested edits only require one approval. For rejections, I can't think of a ...
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How is the anonymous edit count from a certain location determined?

This post will not make much sense without first reading Suggested edit by Anonymous, which details my making over a hundred anonymous edits to MSE over a period of years before creating my current ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
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1 answer
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What is the best (fast but contributive) way to get Strunk & White badge?

As far as know, less than 200 people have a Strunk & White badge here on Meta. Why there's so few people eligible for this? Feature-request, is editing 80 posts too hard? Can we reduce this to ...
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2 answers
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Allow hiding automated script edits from the Community user in its activity list

I was looking through the Community user's activity list so as to get a list of the anonymous edits I (and many other users, but before December 2017, almost all mine) made over the course of editing ...
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1 answer
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Why do edits from Community require approval? [duplicate]

This revision has Community User as an editor, not a reviewer*, and it even has summary of its edit: So I think that there is actually a human behind this. But even so, why would its edit need to be ...
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