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A small blue dot appears all of a sudden in every question in my custom questions list
I opened the Stack Overflow site as normal today and realized that there is a small dot that prefixes every question. What does it stand for? If there's an announcement somewhere before any new ...
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Why highlight of questions with favorite tag has disappeared recently? [duplicate]
Recently (probably several weeks now) I don't have anymore highlight of questions with my favorite tags.
In below screenshot all top 4 questions contains at least one of my favorite tags (powerbi, ...
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Criteria for Protocol Questions
To program a code from a Protocol such as those defined in RFC, we need to dig in the details of the protocol specification and need to ask questions to understand. Please clarify the criteria what ...
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Why did my question have to be deleted?
This is a follow up to a previous meta-question I posted.
That meta-question was too broad was closed.
Now I see that my main question was deleted as if it was a post that should be removed and also ...
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A Gamified Coding Challenge Feature for Stack Overflow? We Want Your Feedback!
I’m Tom, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Stack Overflow. I first joined in 2015 when Joel was running the show, spent a few years here, and then boomeranged back in 2021. I primarily support ...
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Close as duplicate
I would like to close this as a duplicate of this, not because it doesn't follow guidelines.
I think the former question is one of the first search results it opo ups on Google for "python ...
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What happened to free vote-based advertising for Open Source projects?
I discovered this blog post and then learned that you have to filter posts by [open-source-advertising] and go to the relevant advertising period. Problem is, most recent period seems to be for 2021. ...
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Rename [coq] to [rocq-prover]?
Disclaimer: I have no idea about Coq or Rocq Prover, I stumbled upon this subject while reviewing a suggested tag edit.
This is as much a question as a proposal.
I noticed there had been a proposed ...
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How to post a screen shot [duplicate]
I can see that when posting a question for help, some users have included a screenshot. I am not able to include one, but can only describe my excel worksheet instead of showing it in an image.
Is ...
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Discussions learnings and potential next steps
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This post follows on the learnings from the Comments experiment. We’re taking a specific look at what we saw in Discussions and detailing some observations.
We’re proposing a further experiment ...
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What We Learned About Follow-up Questions and What's Next
TL;DR: Our recent comment experiments concluded, and we gained valuable insights: Users want to say thanks, and ask follow-up questions on existing answers. We know that current options aren't ideal ...
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Are comments occasionally/frequently cleaned up without a concrete reason? [closed]
On the Ask Ubuntu network site, there is a policy of deleting old comments if the moderators do not feel like they are important enough, and they decide the comments made by users are a distraction to ...
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What is the problem with my question? How can I improve it?
What is the problem with my question How can I unit test the thread-safety of method? that it has been closed?
How can I improve it?
At some point it reached 4 downvotes with 0 comments from the ...
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Why is the total number of questions on Stack Overflow shrinking lately?
On February 3, 2025 there were 24,248,034 questions on SO
On March 3, 2025 there were 24,254,223 questions on SO
On April 3, 2025 there were 24,241,364 questions on SO
On April 21, 2025 there were 24,...
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Why was a question with 11 upvotes and an answer with 23 upvotes deleted? [duplicate]
The question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55481074/azure-app-service-plan-what-does-minutes-day-mean was deleted despite having 11 upvotes and an answer with 23 upvotes. The deletion reason ...
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