Linked Questions
62 questions linked to/from Community Asks Sprint Announcement and Results - September 2024
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Bookmarks have evolved into Saves
Update Oct 6
Maintenance is complete: all bookmarks have been migrated to Saves across all network sites, including Stack Overflow. All saves, saved lists, private notes, and bookmarks are now ...
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Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers
It would be great to have the option to fold code snippets, entire questions and answer posts on a user basis and allow defining some generic foldable regions within the question/answer editor.
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Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs
Update on October 10, 2024:
As of today, Stack Overflow Jobs will be hosted on stackoverflowjobs.com. If you visit stackoverflow.jobs it will reroute to the new domain. Along with making this change, ...
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Improving the copy in the close modal and post notices – 2023 edition
Since we updated the close modal text and post notices a few years ago, I've known that there are concerns about whether they're sufficiently clear for users and whether they're giving the correct ...
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It's possible to create empty content fields - particularly question titles and bodies - on sites
Prior to an edit, this question was posted with no content in it, both in the title and the question body.
The explanation to reproduce is provided in Temani Afif's answer.
Since this was discovered, ...
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We spent a sprint addressing your requests — here’s how it went
You may have noticed posts getting status-completed at an unusually high rate last week — there’s a reason for that, which I’ll get into further down. But first, some context for those who might need ...
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Community Asks Sprint Announcement - March 2025
Update - April 21, 2025
The results of the March 2025 Community Asks Sprint have been posted here!
Update - April 3, 2025
Last week, we completed our Community Asks Sprint! There are still some ...
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What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?
For context on how this process came to be, please see our initial commitment to responding to Meta and Mods, our guidelines for the testing period, and the results of the initial test and next steps.
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta
TL;DR: Please do not hide Meta Stack Exchange posts on the homepage based on the score because this site works differently than the other ~180 sites listed in https://stackexchange.com/sites.
I just ...
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Allow another close vote after retraction
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Users that have retracted a close vote should be able to vote again on that same question.
I don't believe there is any danger in allowing this, provided some controls are in place (see below).
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Question Close Updates
This week we rolled out a series of changes to improve parts of the question close workflow. You can read more about the details of these changes here.
For context, the overall effort to improve ...
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Fixing comments in 5 minutes. Intrigued? Let's discuss
I made a quick change to Area 51 recently, and it had a profound effect on how people used that site, so let's discuss.
Background:
The basic building blocks of every SE site are the QUESTION and the ...
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Upgrade plans for MathJax v3/v4
While this is not the way I wanted to announce this, it seems the cat is out of the bag. But for those who haven't noticed, as part of our Community Asks Sprint, I spent the week investigating how we ...
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Is it time to reconsider Social Media links in "Share" and User Profiles, etc?
2013 called and it wants its social media links back.
The social media landscape has grown far more varied, controversial, and complex in the past decade, but Stack Exchange still seems to promote a ...