Unanswered Questions
158 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What progress has been made recently toward improving Stack Overflow search results?
Originally I was going to ask about how Stack Overflow search could be improved. Because it so rarely returns the results that I want, I don't use it much. The exceptions are:
searching for ...
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ASCII folding in user search
When I search for myself in SO User search, I cannot find myself if I don't input the accent in my first name.
If I input my name with the correct accent, it works fine.
Could the underlying search ...
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Search for questions/answers you voted on
Currently the only user operators search has is user:*id*, infavorites:*id*, and intags:mine. I suggest a new operator invoted: with the options invoted:all, invoted:up and invoted:down. These would ...
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Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange - Advanced Search
I thought it would be nice to have an advanced search that exposed some of the search functionality that's hidden away on this page.
I think it would make it simpler for users, especially those that ...
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Meta.SE content should be discoverable on Meta.SO
Since the new Meta.SE was introduced, many discussions have come up on Meta.SO that already exist on Meta.SE.
As this answer by Tim Post shows, this is somewhat intentional and not viewed as a bad ...
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Do we have an epidemic of low-quality titles?
Today I didn't feel like being a proper Loungizen so I decided to actually help out someone in chat.
That someone asked the room a question about the relation between pointer arithmetic and array ...
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It's not possible to use SO's search to find questions containing a non-ASCII string, like the mojibake "’"
Earlier today I answered this question about a mojibake issue where a single UTF-8 character was incorrectly being decoded into the Unicode string "’". Before I answered it, I thought there might be ...
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Concluding the OverflowAI Search Alpha on Stack Overflow
April 17th, 2024 update: All the steps we had planned for our rampdown are now complete. If you have any outstanding questions, please let us know in the comments or answers below.
Six months ago we ...
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No space between search options
Check out this search example. It looks like an absolute mess above the search bar:
It would be much better if the options were separated with commas and spaces:
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Make the search bar in meta also search the help center
The prominence of the new search bar is going to override the ability to search in the help center as seen below.
Most users finding their way to help are going to end up searching in the wrong bar. ...
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Feature request: &page=last link for paginated results
My Stack Overflow profile contains a link to the lowest-voted answers of mine; but it currently requires updating every 20 30 answers or so because I had to hard-code the index of the last page of ...
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The ability to search for answers to your own questions
Stack Overflow's search feature allows me to search for my own questions and answers using user:me, but it doesn't allow me to search for answers to my questions posted by other users.
I want to find ...
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Can DuckDuckGo be given the correct modified date?
This is something I've noticed just recently, but DuckDuckGo has put "7 days ago" next to a few Stack Overflow hits today. But when I click through they are e.g., "Asked 6 years, 3 ...
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The search functionality of the Help pages isn't working
I was trying to locate something in the Help pages, but it seems the search functionality isn't working. A search for "title" for instance returns this:
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A search box to narrow the number of questions shown under your profiles saves, votes, questions, etc
I'll save/vote on a question if it helped me.
Later I might have difficulty remembering something from the post.
With no search feature, the process of finding the question again in my bookmarks/votes ...
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