Questions tagged [hot-questions]
Hot Network Questions in the right-hand sidebar, the “hot” tab on each site, and on stackexchange.com.
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How should I go about retrieving the date of when a question became/was no longer hot with SEDE?
I am currently making a SEDE query to determine which questions from a specific user have made it onto the Hot Network Questions list and when. While I can get the specific questions, I am unable to ...
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Site icons all cut off/incorrectly cropped in Hot Network Questions list
As you can see from the image below, the site icons in the Hot Network Questions list are all cut off at the top, with some extra content at the bottom. This issue appears to be occurring specifically ...
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Could there be a self-edit threshold that precludes a question from getting on the HNQ list?
I had to check out this question this morning in my moderatorial duties, and I was a little grieved to see it hit the HNQ at some point after it was asked, but certainly after the OP had edited it ...
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Hot Network Questions Feed App no longer working
The app I created to offer RSS feeds from Hot Network Questions fails since today to fetch its data from the source.
One of its main endpoints is https://stackexchange.com/hot-questions-json1. It ...
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Is Stack Exchange indexing with Google broken? [duplicate]
Today I tried to google an exact phrase from a question on SciFi SE and received very interesting search results. I provide a screenshot of two googled suggestions below. Here are the links to those ...
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Sites freshly in public beta should not be on Hot Network Questions
While I'm generally supportive of new Betas, I feel like a site that's brand new—in this case PLDI, which hasn't had a moderation team in place, and is still working out the 'details' of scope—ought ...
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Hot meta posts section is no more?
I was browsing Stack Overflow for tags of interest-related questions and I noticed that there was no 'hot meta posts' section on the right side! I navigated to the corresponding meta and found the ...
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Multiple "became hot network question" events on timeline [duplicate]
The timeline for this question on literature.se shows multiple "became hot network question" events (see screenshot below). This looks like a bug.
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Feature Improvement: Always display sub-stack meta posts in a side-bar on their main site
Personal opinion: Stack Exchange would be better if more people participated in the metas, particularly for smaller stacks (where things are less settled and more community input would be beneficial). ...
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Should we really be promoting bigotry?
So this gem from the Christianity site is currently being displayed on HNQ:
I'm not one to try to prevent religious people from discussing ... whatever they want, amongst themselves.
But can we at ...
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Can I see my questions or answers that are or had been listed on Hot Network Questions?
I wonder if I can see all my questions and answers that are currently on or had been previously listed on the 'Hot Network Questions.'
When I see a revision history of a specific question, I know ...
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Why do we see our own questions on the HNQ sidebar?
Many times, I see my own hot network question in the sidebar. Specifically, it is happening frequently with this question on Law. However, it is just a distraction because
I already know about it!
I ...
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Hot meta post conditions [duplicate]
What conditions should be met for a meta post to appear on the Hot Meta posts list on the right side of the questions page?
E.g.:
How many posts can be visible at one time (max 2?)? As far as I know, ...
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Portuguese question in the Hot Network Questions
There is a filter to exclude non-English questions from the Hot Network Questions list. I'm not sure if the criteria for a question being English are still the same as in this eleven year old answer
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Triple HNQ entry (2022 edition)
This question appears to have entered the HNQ list three times with the same timestamp:
Seemingly related to Very hot network questions found, but not a duplicate because that was marked as status-...
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