Questions tagged [stack-overflow]
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Get Community involved in the close process
It's been noted that the Stack Overflow close vote queue has a few questions in it. More generally, it appears as though the Stack Overflow community cannot keep up with the volume of questions that ...
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Edit post without any change
I click to edit a post and without making any change I clicked Save instead of cancel by mistake and it accepted.
Now it is showing my name in revision list with no changes.
and as hims056 ...
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Create suggested edit audits with random formatting
A common type of bad suggested edit that we all hate is one that adds random formatting.
At the moment, all suggested edit audits are based on randomly replacing some sequences of words by other ...
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Who wrote the Microsoft case study about Stack Overflow?
I just happened to notice this case study (archived), published two years ago. It explains how Stack Overflow is using ASP.NET MVC to gain high performance, fast development and easier testing and ...
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Should there be a flag condition for people "changing the goalposts" on questions
I have an issue with the behavior of some users on Stack Overflow. A couple of times now I have found that when answering a question, (and often after a long stream of "That didn't work") I find that ...
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Should Stack Overflow be featured?
Browsing the Hot Network Questions, I noticed that "Today's Featured Site" is Stack Overflow:
Given that Stack Overflow's traffic is greater than that of all other SE sites combined, is it ...
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What happened to Stack Overflow Android app?
I had Stack Overflow app on my phone. When I got my new phone, Stack Overflow Android app wasn't transferred because it wasn't in Play Store. When I search "StackOverflow Android app" on Google, it ...
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Show Views Count Next to the Questions on StackOverflow's Mobile UI
I would to propose a small UI tweak to the current version of StackOverflow's Mobile-friendly optimized site for displaying the number of views next to the question.
To illustrate this better, here ...
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Audits that are incorrect
I just failed an audit for attempting to close a duplicate question.
The audit was for the question: https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2393046
I was going to mark it as a duplicate as I was ...
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Blurry text on Stack Overflow with Chrome
There is a bug with Chrome (and probably other WebKit browsers) on the Stack Overflow website.
When trying to open the More menu in a tag-related search, the popup is all blurry. This is usually due ...
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Meta SE header banner contains the old Stack Overflow logo icon
This is the MSE banner background:
Note the Stack Overflow logo contains 6 overflowing bars.
Here's the current Stack Overflow icon:
DISCREPANCY ALERT!
All out-of-date icons:
Stack Overflow - ...
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Is there a way to know how many total lines of code Stack Overflow has produced?
Recently I saw an infographic called Million Lines of Code and I think it would be really cool if Stack Overflow could be on it. I am sure there are thousand upon thousand lines of code the Stack ...
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Close vote review queue reorganization proposal
There is a problem with the close vote queue that it seems it won't ever go away. There are always proposals to increase the number of allowed items you can do a day, but that alone won't help, as the ...
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Long title in New Stack Overflow Feature dialog obscures close button
All Stack Overflow sites have an orange 'New' button next to the site logo in their top bar if there are new features to be discovered. If the title is too long, the close button (X) is hardly visible,...
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500 reputation drop - where did it go?
When I visited StackOverflow today I noticed a sharp drop (exactly 500 rep): https://stackoverflow.com/users/81179/christophed?tab=summary ...
The strange thing is I can't pinpoint exactly where it ...
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