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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"more hot questions" link is broken
When I visit a question, and then try to use the 'more hot questions' link in the sidebar, it doesn't work as advertised. Hovering over it shows me the URL of the post I'm currently on, and clicking ...
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Change "Hot Network Questions" to "Trending Network Questions"?
The word Hot in Hot Network Questions feels like it carries a sexual connotation.
Should the phrase Hot Network Questions be changed to Trending Network Questions?
Do you think the latter is more ...
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Change "removed from network questions" to "removed from hot network questions" in HNQ timeline and revision history
The timeline and revisions for this question includes:
became hot network question
And, subsequently:
removed from network questions
Should the latter entry say "removed from hot network ...
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hot network questions have inconsistent CSS for visited/not visited depending on the site you're on
This is a HNQ excerpt from Stack Overflow. Visited questions are objectively darker.
This is a HNQ excerpt from Super User. Visited questions are objectively lighter.
This is a HNQ excerpt from ...
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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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Remove <religion>.SE sites from Hot Network Questions
I have deep issues with the 'Hot Network Questions' containing questions from the religion sub-sites. This is not because I dislike questions about religion, nor because I think these sites have no ...
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Let's take a look at the interaction between staff and the "power users" of the network
Recently, it was announced that the "Hot on Meta" questions would no longer show up on the SO sidebar. Sara Chipps elaborated a little bit on why:
Stack Overflow Employees have panic ...
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Prevent questions from being tweeted onto the site's Twitter account if they are removed from Hot Network Questions [closed]
This question made it into Hot Network Questions, but was removed by a moderator later. Six hours after the removal, it was tweeted onto the site's Twitter account, drawing it more attention.
In my ...
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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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Can we have read only access to the HNQ word blocklist?
As explained in Profanity in hot questions list there is a blocklist of words that will prevent a question from appearing in the Hot Network Questions sidebar on other Stack Exchange sites.
Can we ...
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What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?
There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list.
Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site:
'But we want to encourage people to post, that's ...
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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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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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