Questions tagged [outdated-answer]
Use this tag is for questions about the outdated answers and the outdated answers project.
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My answer doesn't work anymore due to an external tool becoming non-functional. What should I do?
Back in 2017 I posted an answer explaining how to navigate to the first commit of a GitHub repository using a bookmarklet. While the answer was helpful at the time, a user recently pointed out that ...
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Is the Outdated Answers project defunct now?
Stack Overflow introduced the Outdated Answers project two years ago and for 7-12 months made regular changes and updates. But it has now been 13 months since the last update (that I could find using ...
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Editing to update outdated solution on question about Xdebug on Mac
The solution on Building/Installing Xdebug on Mac OS X with MAMP is outdated, and would I love to combine my answer reflecting current affairs into the accepted answer.
Yet it apparently is held up in ...
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Should we highlight old questions & answers?
Sometimes you try to solve a problem by following an answer but it just won't work, while it seems to work for everyone else, (for example here on this MySQL question) until you realise that the ...
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Question does not make sense anymore since software update
I recently asked a question that basically asks "why can't I do this in TypeScript?" but since the merge of #50666 the question doesn't make sense anymore because what I ask to do can ...
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Comment or edit to inform package deprecation?
python-certifi-win32, a small Python package, has been left in an unmaintained state, and its author recommends pip-system-certs as a replacement (by the same author). This has all been properly ...
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Trending: A new answer sorting option
Update 2022-08-09: New votes now update Trending scores immediately instead of waiting for the cache to expire
As part of the Outdated Answers project, we ran an experiment to try and surface trending ...
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When will I be able to vote again on outdated answers? [duplicate]
I've just voted for an outdated answer, and got the following message:
When will it be eligible for my vote again? It could be that in a few weeks/months it will eventually become outdated.
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"Is this answer outdated" shows on new answers to old questions
As the title says, the "Is this answer outdated?" prompt shows on all answers to old questions, regardless of when they were posted. This came to my attention when I was prompted if my own ...
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How bad does any answer need to be to warrant flagging under the outdated answer project?
I'm feeling some hesitation on flagging an accepted answer on the basis of either "Newer, more efficient" or "poses a risk", and would like to have further elaboration on the ...
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