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I use high-quality monitors. I have older eyes. The default title and link colors on many stack sites -- very bright, light cyan (blue) -- is very very hard to read. I'd guess the contrast between ...
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On Q&A pages, comments (whether already existing or just created by you), have timestamps with links to the exact comment, like e.g. GitHub. This is not the case when reviewing a post (example); ...
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When a link is included in a spoiler, clicking it does nothing. You can try it out below: Right-clicking the link and choosing something like 'Open link in new tab' works, but is more cumbersome. It ...
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I was looking at the communities in the Hide Communities page when I noticed that the communities aren't links, for some reason. I was going through an account purge for a bunch of sites I've never ...
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Doing a bit of experimenting with SEDE to find profile spam I found some common hostnames, while some are expected like github, linkedin,facebook etc. I also found quite a bit of spam hosts used by ...
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I locate to this dropdown using my mobile phone and choose the chat option. This opens the chat in mobile phone. There I notice this. In this image as seen, the invited tab is not a hyperlink (it's a ...
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All of these fail to be formatted correctly in Chat: \[*test*\] Expected: [test] Actual: [*test*] [[*test*]](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test) Expected: [test] Actual: [[test]](en.wiktionary.org/...
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An Example At softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/posts/93650/edit/0ca6aecd-c013-42bb-b9f3-b41c3c60ae33 (note that the appended hash is removable), [`meta.stackexchange.com/q/412232`][2]'s breaks the ...
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The help center page What types of questions should I avoid asking? has a final paragraph If your question is about the site itself, please don't ask it here. Visit our meta-discussion site, where ...
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ethtool and turning of rxvlan is an Ask Ubuntu answer I created yesterday, which contains hyperlinks to source files under https://git.launchpad.net/ While creating the answer, when in the editor ...
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I used link from the top bar notice on Stack Overflow on Russia to open in a new tab: Full link is: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=stackoverflow-community&...
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In traducir there are links for each sentence to transifex source, e.g.: Currently link has the following format (as an example for ruSO): https://www.transifex.com/stack-exchange/stack-overflow-ru/...
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When visiting a beta site from the "Visit!" link on an Area 51 proposal page, one goes to a link of the form area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/[proposal ID]/proposal-name/visit. Previously, ...
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It looks like there has been a recent deploy. When flagging a question, two links in the dialog are broken: The URL for 'closed' has a weird $closedHelpUrl in it and links to the question itself, and ...
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I became just aware of citation helper, a tool that queries the webservice https://zbmath.org/ to turn abstract ids of papers in the field of mathematics into human-readable citations fit for ...
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Hyperlinks in chat messages only show underlining when hovered over with the pointer. This isn't very good for accessibility. See the WebAIM guidance on link underlining. This never bothered me, but I ...
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E.g. consider this SEDE query that lists 5 comments: select top 5 c1.id, c1.Text from Comments c1 ORDER BY id ASC Output: How can I add a column containing links to the comments (not links to the ...
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As a follow-up on Can we make image description required?, I wonder: How can one add an alt text for a linked image?
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Links to rads.stackoverflow.com are used to redirect (e.g. to Amazon) to add Stack Exchange's affiliate cookie. I just saw a site member on "my" site mention that the redirect was failing, ...
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Some time in the past, the default format for meta site URLs was switched from meta.site.stackexchange.com to site.meta.stackexchange.com. Some places on our network still contain links which point to ...
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I was trying to correct a broken link in an old answer of mine on Stack Overflow, and really struggled until I realised that it was in Rich Text mode. (When did that happen? Not been very active on SO ...
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This is the URL of an answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79477767 It's deleted. However I expect to be redirected to the question it answers to, not the 404 page. So if it's an 404 page, that means ...
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If you click on the "Insert Link" button in the new Stacks Editor when it is in WYSIWYG mode a small dialog opens where you can insert Link text and target. But at the same moment the cursor ...
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On Answer Bot's user profile (e.g., on Web Apps), the "Network profile" link leads to https://stackexchange.com/users/-2/answer-bot, which doesn't exist ("Page Not Found"). The ...
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On e.g., https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions there could be a convenience link added to "My questions". That would save the user having to poke around, eventually arriving at e.g., ...
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Return to question is a hyperlink, Top questions is not a hyperlink. Alas the typeface and colors look about the same. Seen on the English Language Stack Exchange. OK, fine, they are slightly ...
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Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it to X[1] [2], the site has become an increasingly inflammatory platform[3], even more so than before. Extremist users have taken over the site and ...
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Links in sidebar boxes (e.g. "example newsletter" in "Love this site?" or "writing great tag wikis" in "What are Tag Wikis?") look exactly the same as the text ...
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When creating a profile after updating your location field, Twitter, and GitHub links on all profiles, they do not get copied over to the new account, though a website link (and everything else) does. ...
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This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others): ...
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When adding a comment to request clarification on a question from a new user I try and start the comment with "please edit the question..." where "edit" is a hyperlink to the /edit ...
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When you sign up for Stack Exchange, you receive an email inviting you to contribute. It invites you to "Get started with new questions that no one’s answered yet" (emphasis mine). Except ...
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It would be useful if links could have a QR code next to them as an anti-spoofing or URL-shortening feature. I would guess that in mobile phone browsers this is already supported?
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At times, when writing a meta post, I find linking to a tags search result (i.e 'within' x.stackexchange.com/tags/) would exactly cover the tags I am talking about in the post (e.g. the results of the ...
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Moving the cursor on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor. Example: Tested with Chrome + Windows 10.
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Tl;dr - Could this blog post be updated to use https:// links for MSO/MSE in the final paragraph? Consider using the site names (not domain names) in the visible text, too (meta.stackexchange.com → ...
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On the "Stack Overflow Jobs -> Frequently Asked Questions" help page, the 5th point discusses how to report a job. However, the provided link redirects to a 404 error page. Upon ...
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So I have been thinking this for a while, and I wanted to ask this on Meta, because this regards and applies to all Stack Exchange sites, not an individual one. I want to know how we as a community or ...
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When viewing a message sent to a user, on the right side of the page is a container with text at the top What is a moderator message?. At the end of that container there is a link at the end to chat ...
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How can I add a clickable magnet link to a post? I unsuccessfully tried: [data](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e&tr=https%3A%2F%2Facademictorrents.com%2Fannounce.php&...
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Using TinyURL URLs in posts is banned on SE. The error message is: Body cannot contain "https://tinyurl.com/xai" Please avoid using URL shorteners; they can break without leaving any useful ...
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I'd like to link to https://ai.stackexchange.com/tags with tag search = "gpt" prefilled: Can that be realized?
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On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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In Politics's Agora chat room I posted this text and the display was unsatisfactory because the links didn't show nicely. I expected something like this (except with text dashes instead of the ...
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The following markdown: [[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>) Produces this in a post: [example].com (https://www.example.com/abc) But this in a comment: [[...
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How can we choose links to scientific articles in questions (Q), answers (A), and comments (C)? On some Stack Exchange sites, e.g., involved in science, it's indispensable to link to scientific ...
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The site Beer, Wine & Spirits has the URL https://alcohol.stackexchange.com but in SEDE it uses beer for the main site and beerme for meta. As far as I can tell, the shortcut site:// and the magic ...
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In the Will developers return to hostile offices? blog post, there is iframe pointing to the podcast episode. However, it's broken: For reference, this is how it should look like: (taken from this ...
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Sometimes on Mathematics Stack Exchange, I would like to reference a link from MathOverflow. It would be helpful if it got immediately turned into the title without having to type it and then include ...
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When I write a link to a text fragment, like this, the link works in the editor preview properly (on the linked page skips to the given text fragment and highlights it), but on the published question, ...
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