Unanswered Questions
13,396 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Optimise Stack Exchange user flair for Retina displays
I really love the way user flair works, but unfortunately it doesn't look very sharp on a Retina display, especially when juxtaposed with browser-rendered text. If you made the generated image twice ...
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Make chat onebox HTTPS links
When I paste a link like http://www.xkcd.com/975 on chat, it promptly oneboxes the comic. However if I post the HTTPS version of that https://www.xkcd.com/975 it doesn't. This is true for all other ...
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Let's prevent association bonus abuse
The association bonus grants otherwise no-rep users a lot of privileges. That's good if we trust them (great even, since it allows us to flag spam across the network), but could be terrible if we don'...
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Sometimes, two or more identical copies of the same question get posted at the same time despite only submitting once
I've noticed that with the new question asking form, sometimes, attempting to submit a question will post two, or rarely more than two, identical copies of the same question with identical timestamps ...
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Add user card preview to profile editing page
We now have a nifty new feature expanding user cards to provide information about ourselves to other users. A minor problem is that it is comparatively awkward to see what your own user card looks ...
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(Completed) Site maintenance - Mon, Sept 16 2024, 21:00 UTC to Tue, Sept 17 2024, 2:00 UTC (Mon, Sept 16 2024, 5pm-10pm ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance has been completed]
We have planned network maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange users. The window is scheduled for Monday, September 16 2024, 21:00 UTC ...
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Don't say "Your question is ready to publish!" if "This post does not meet our quality standards"
Don't say "Your question is ready to publish!" if "This post does not meet our quality standards".
Steps to reproduce this:
Go to https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/ask (...
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Stop automatically merging accounts without asking the users
Currently, users are automatically merged if SE detects certain situations that indicate that the users belong to the same real person. Some aspects of this have been mentioned in meta posts, but in ...
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Add an "Answering Questions" Section to the Site Tours
Background to This Request
This is a generalization of one of my MSO posts.
I recently answered a question for a new user, who then replied to my answer with another "answer" instead of using the ...
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Improve the "recently deleted" tool
The "recently deleted" 10k tool is too limited:
it only includes a fixed number of deleted posts (45 apparently?)
it only displays posts in a certain time-span (haven't seen anything older than 1h)
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What, exactly, is "OverflowAPI"?
The description on the OverflowAPI website is rather vague marketing speak:
OverflowAPI is a subscription-based API service that provides continuous access to Stack Overflow’s public dataset to train ...
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Why we stopped using Stack Overflow for Teams, and why we won't use the OverflowAI
So, this is an attempt to give some helpful feedback about Stack Overflow for Teams, and explain a bit of why I think it's falling behind lately.
I was also very upset and mildly drunk at the time I ...
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Please reinstate the words "off-topic" into the closing dialog
Recently, the button for "off-topic" in the closing dialog was changed to "A community-specific reason". To be clear, I agree with the gist of the change, since "off-topic&...
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Allow moderators to refresh a user's network profile
Currently, moderators have the ability to reset a user's username and/or profile text, and propagate that to the rest of the network, resetting it everywhere. However, often, if a profile needs to be ...
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Can we add more information to "no longer needed" flags?
As a moderator on a couple comment-heavy sites, I see a lot of "no longer needed" comment flags. But that doesn't tell me why it's no longer needed, so to evaluate it I usually have to read through a ...