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PLACEHOLDER - Stack Exchange Toolbox

A couple of small applications for contributing to Stack Exchange. (For personal use only, at least for the foreseeable future. I need to post this question for write access.)

Duplicate Target Manager

Description This is a userscript that lets you mark questions as commonly used duplicate targets, and replaces the default question search in the close dialog with one that searches through your m…

StackExchange Simulator

Generating random Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange questions using MarkovChains

Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged “obsolete” and “placeholder”?

Following What should we do about dead listings?, we've started to add obsolete to questions that are 'deprecated, no longer available/supported, or no longer relevant'. However, on the front page…

AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (can…

OBSOLETE - StackAd - An Easy Way to Display Open-Source Ads on Your Site/Blog

StackAd pulls the answers from this question that have 6 or more upvotes and displays a random ad in the box. The code is provided as a .js file you can embed in your pages. The instructions are he…

Improved Tag Popup

Improved Tag Popup Inspired by this feature request by Andrew Leach, this script adds some extra links in the new tag popup, to view and edit the full tag information (wiki and excerpt). Instal…

How to get the number/count/total of tags/badges/something from the API?

I see we can fetch tags via the API, which works fine but, sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to get the count of all possible tags. Currently the Stack Overflow Tags page shows 36 tags per pa…

Stack Overflow Dark Theme

Dark theme for Stack Overflow

Review Stalker Reloaded: A cross-site dashboard for reviews

A one-stop pinned tab, always checking for review opportunities on main and meta as aggressively as is useful between multiple sites you configure.

List of Votes by Authenticated users

In the API documentation for the question type, it says that you can access, for a specific question, whether or not the authenticated user (in the private_info scope) upvoted/downvoted the questio…

Hidden page tracks Read/Unread Inbox items better than API or Inbox?

How does this hidden page (stackexchange.com/topbar/inbox) know which Inbox notifications I have/haven't opened? Both the drop-down inbox and the API (ie, api.stackexchange.com/docs/me-inbox) see…

Tampermonkey script to hide New Contributor Indicator

// ==UserScript== // @name Contributor indicator cutter // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @author Suvitruf // @match *://*/questions/* // @match…

Add a dedicated bot login to Stack Apps

When dealing with chat bots, especially those like SmokeDetector, you'll often want to log in directly from the code. The problem? There's no easy way to do this, especially now that Open ID is bei…

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