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New navigation, alpha 2 released
Update: A Release Candidate has been announced
Last month, we introduced a number of changes to the navigation for selected users:
A new alpha-testing platform
Unified question list with three tabs ...
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Can we get rid of the disclosure triangles that don't disclose anything on the edit screen?
I can't count the number of times I've tried to click one of these triangles:
Could we change them to something more... non-clickable? Like these little things: ● ● ● ●?
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Stack Exchange Moderator FAQ
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question (...
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Add bounty remarks to a question's revision history
A question's revision history has shown bounty events for quite some time now. Since then, Stack Exchange has also added support for bounty remarks.
I would like to request that bounty remarks be ...
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Stack Exchange Blogs Compromised and Passwords Reset
Some of our WordPress instances were exploited yesterday at 11 AM UTC. We noticed that the compromise had taken place today and took the blogs offline as soon as we noticed. We have since restored the ...
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Boost duplicate post search results by incoming link count
When you try to close a post as a duplicate, you are given the opportunity to search for the dupe target.
Still, searching for that dupe target you know exists is hard and more often than not I have ...
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Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging
Cleaning up a bad or ambiguous tag is a very annoying and disruptive process. While there are moderator tools for renaming and merging tags, there is no tool that helps splitting a tag or removing a ...
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Nailing it up on your Community Bulletin Board
Community Bulletin was redesigned on June 23, 2014
More info on Redesigned community bulletin.
As some of you may have noticed, there's a new feature on Stack Exchange:
The Community Bulletin ...
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Posts destroyed as spam should trigger a retroactive audit failure for previous “No Action Needed” votes
As a moderator on Stack Overflow, I regularly look through the review history of obvious spam that has lasted more than an hour or so on the site. I often find one or two reviewers who voted "No ...
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List of communities with base css updates completed
By January 2016, All communities have been updated
The design team has been rolling out design updates to sites as part of network-wide update to a new base css framework. The updates allow us to:
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The Twitter bot should not Tweet posts that have flags on them
While reviewing the flags on a Programmers post I found this:
You can clearly see that the post was flagged 5 minutes before the post was Tweeted. While in this case the post remains open, it might ...
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Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere.
The short story
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Improving Tag Synonyms
Executive Summary
Jon Ericson asked, Does the tag synonym suggestion system work?
The answer, unfortunately, is no.
Tag Synonyms were introduced in August 2010:
It’s been clear for a very long ...
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Explicitly mention who decided the fate of a flag
It used to be that only moderators acted on flags. But now many flags are handled by the community in review queues, and moderators never even see those flags.
The feedback users get from flags can ...
