Questions tagged [winter-bash-2020]
For questions about the Winter Bash (holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2020, which will run from December 16th to January 4th.
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Unable to login to 2020 Winter Bash page
I'm trying to log in to the 2020 Winter Bash page. After clicking the "Log in or Sign up" it returns the below message:
redirect_uri is not under the registered domain for this application
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Server error when trying to log in to Winter Bash 2020 Hat Dash after it has ended
Today I found this:
Please make the Hat Dash leaderboard link a different color
And was interested to see what this is:
https://winterbash2020.stackexchange.com/
When I try to login, I get:
Oops! ...
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Wrong usernames on the Winter Bash /stats page
In the public WB stats page, the usernames are incorrect. For example, "user1599751" is PeterJ, "user163529" is Shree, "user51" is Yaakov Ellis and so on.
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Please change the color of the hats/usernames on the Winter Bash 2020 /stats page
On the Winter Bash stats page, the color of the hat names and the users they were awarded to is not really a great color:
It requires a bit more effort to read than, for instance, the stats from WB ...
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Winter Bash 2020 Closing Blog Post Feedback
We have just posted out Ciao Winter Bash 2020! post on the blog where we go over some of the highlights and stats of the event that just ended. Here is an excerpt:
Nick and VonC earned the very first ...
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Winter Bash has ended, but the hats metadata still seems to be available
Winter Bash 2020 has ended, but I discovered an old Stack Overflow tab from a few days earlier which still had the snowflake hats icon on top. To my surprise, when I clicked it, I still got my list ...
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Winter Bash Leader-board search bar not working
Since now Winter Bash has ended, we can't see each others hats. But supposedly in the Winter Bash Leader-board you can search users by their name and see how many hats they got. But I tried searching ...
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The Winter Bash 2020 has ended. What are your thoughts?
I will share my thoughts first.
I think the hat dash and the Defender of the Unicorn were fun games. Here are some comments of them:
Hat Dash
Defender of the Unicorn
About
Rules similar to Chrome T-...
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Hat does not display fully on a user's activity page [duplicate]
I'm aware Winter Bash is ending soon, but perhaps this could be fixed for next year's WB.
As seen in the image below, my hat does not display fully.
It appears that this can be fixed by removing ...
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How are the scores calculated in Winter Bash's "Hat-Dash"? [duplicate]
I recently noticed that in Winter Bash the scores are not proportional to time played and sometimes I scored more in less time.
In this image you can clearly see the difference in scores and time ...
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When does Winter Bash really end?
I am just wondering what time exactly does the Winter Bash end.
As mentioned in the FAQ here, it says:
What is going on? Why do I see hats?
From December 16th through January 4th, you'll be able to ...
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Is it possible to earn the Wa-Boushi hat for an answer on a meta site?
I am just wondering if it's possible to earn the Wa-Boushi hat on Meta Stack Overflow.
I have this answer, it has 36 upvotes (lol hoping for more), but I am wondering if/when I get 40 upvotes, will I ...
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How is the site on which the Happy New Year hat is to be earned determined?
The Happy New Year hat is awarded for posting a chat message that gets starred within 12 hours of January 1, 2021 0:00 UTC.
How is the site on which to award the hat determined exactly?
I think this ...
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Why is the JavaScript file that deal with Winter Bash hats called "hakovaim.js"?
Looking through Network tab on Chrome developer tools, I noticed a file called "hakovaim.js" and in it seems to be code that controls the Winter Bash hats.
Why was this name chosen? The word ...
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What else is required from me to earn the "Defender of the Unicorn" hat?
I managed to get an illegitimate score into the top of the leaderboard while circumventing the updated auto-ban system, and I reported how it was done. Unless there exists additional criteria that I'm ...
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