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Hide the newly introduced homepage widgets

See the updates in the answer below; also check out the commit history for additional changes. About The new widgets can clutter the homepage for those of us who are not interested in them. I created ...
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Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions

First there was Natty - looking for new answers to old questions that aren't actually answers, and posting them in a chatroom. Then there was Sentinel. Sentinel is the web dashboard for Natty. The ...
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Delete without refresh

A script that allows you to cast a delete vote on a post immediately after casting a downvote that makes the post score negative, without having to refresh the whole page. // ==UserScript== // @name ...
2 votes
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Hide Recognized Member text from the RM's flairs in the Collectives

About With the launch of Collectives on Stack Overflow, whenever a recognized member post an answer within their respective collective, there will be a "badge" underneath their flair which ...
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White keyboard highlighting in dark mode

Description This changes highlighting from using keyboard shortcuts to use white instead of black. Allows actually seeing the highlighting noticeable in high contrast mode. The userstyle only works ...
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Enhanced revision view

When visiting an individual post revision page, this script adds buttons that allow switching to a view showing how the revision differed from the previous one, just like on a full post history page. ...
8 votes
1 answer
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Reopen/Delete Vote Rename - Clarify whether you've voted to delete/undelete already

This script is no longer needed Stack Exchange now denotes that you've already voted to close/reopen/delete/undelete with an asterisk, e.g. Delete (1*). Thus, this script isn't really needed anymore. ...
27 votes
1 answer
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Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted

Could you please provide a way to retrieve deleted questions/answers? Your database contains that data, until you hard delete it, so it would be useful for us to have the chance to play with it. I'm ...
10 votes
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Show a warning message when you follow a link to a deleted answer or comment

About: When you follow a link to a comment or answer you might end-up being confused if the answer or comment is removed. This little userscript shows a warning on top of the page when the link you ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Padding missing between thumbnails and other app/script information

On the Apps and Scripts tabs, the thumbnails and the rest of the information touch each other: This didn't use to be the case, could you please re-add some padding?
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Universal dark mode (beta)

[Beta] Universal SE Dark Mode While functional, this is experimental and while some sites work, a bit more work is required for it to support all (or, most of) SE. Install Universal dark mode has long ...
3 votes
3 answers
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Stack Exchange code block line numbers userscript

Screenshot About I've always wanted to have line numbers prefixed in code blocks on questions / answers. This userscript takes the code-blocks on the page, and inserts line numbers. It will look at ...
13 votes
2 answers
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Revert Stack Exchange's new up/down vote buttons

This userscript, written for ViolentMonkey, reverts the question and answer upvotes on all Stack Exchange sites so that they are almost identical to their previous design. New vote buttons (shown for ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Request for user script to remove mask from posts deleted as spam or offensive

As a contributor to Charcoal, I often find that the spam and offensive mask (i.e. "this post was deleted as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown, see the revision history") just gets in my way ...
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Improve design of the Documentation's 404 page

The 404 page of the documentation has a rather awkward design; for example, a different header than other pages, and no footer. Can it be updated?
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Convert your Stack Exchange Posts to your own Website

Using the tools in this website you can take all your Stack Exchange Posts in SE Markdown Format and convert them to GitHub Pages Jekyll Kramdown format. The website is targeted to high-rep Stack ...
12 votes
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OBSOLETE - Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages

Obsolete This script is now obsolete; a permanent fix has been implemented by Stack Exchange. About Some time ago, Stack Exchange moved to highlight.js v11. One of the breaking changes of this ...
27 votes
1 answer
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My app has to be published first? But it's still under development

Okay, I want to build an App that allows me to create questions on Stack Exchange. I registered it here on Stack Apps but now when I want to create a question I get this message: { "error_message": ...
6 votes
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Stack Exchange Post Watcher - Firefox & Chrome extension to watch posts for any changes

Stack Exchange Post Watcher Watching posts for changes is an extremely heavily requested feature on Stack Exchange (see 1, 2, 3). This extension adds a 'watch' button to the actions under every post ...
4 votes
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Userscripts Configurer - One script to configure them all

Screenshot About UserScripts Configurer is a shared configuration controller for UserScripters' userscripts. How to use Configurer is exposed as a global accessible via UserScripters.Userscripts....
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Accessibility issue on app registration page

Page containing bug https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register Reproduce the issue Go to the page above. Whether you click on Application Website or Application Icon, it focuses the OAuth domain input. ...
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Userscript to disable responsiveness on SE

I would like to make a user script to disable the responsiveness on Stack Exchange sites. My main reason is that I would like to resize my browser to half my screen size (705px) and still get the ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Don't let me interact with this user's posts (for sockpuppets, mostly)

About The main purpose of this script is to prevent one from accidentally interacting with questions/answers posted by a sock of their own (but it can also be used to avoid interacting with posts from ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Can we change the Stack Apps homepage tabs to not show questions tagged "obsolete" and "placeholder"?

Following What should we do about dead listings?, we've started to add obsolete to questions that are 'deprecated, no longer available/supported, or no longer relevant'. However, on the front page, ...
4 votes
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Following Overcharged - Various improvements to the "follow" feature

Screenshot About Following Overcharged (inspired by a MSE feature request) is a userscript that provides a set of features improving the "follow" feature. Current version includes: Feature ...
3 votes
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Anonymize short links [duplicate]

“Share” links under questions and answers include one's UserId, which may not be desirable for those who want to keep separate online identities at SE and elsewhere. (Pointed out at Meta Stack ...
54 votes
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Custom Fonts User Script: Revert or Improve the Font Updates

Recently, Stack Exchange decided to switch to system fonts. For those of you who prefered the old appearance, or would like a different font to appear in code blocks or across the site as a whole, ...
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Extension; Access to layout and javascript of stackexchange network site instead of inject (Stacks is not defined)

Note: last update at the end of POST I am developing an extension for community users. Introduction: The extension is under development on this github: https://github.com/IcarosNetSA/atsu and these ...
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Magic Answer References - a userscript for making proper post referencing easier

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Referencing other posts properly by hand is tedious: one has to link to users' profiles as usernames are subject to change any time, as well as to their post. Magic ...
3 votes
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Post Box Highlighter - Highlight a post box background

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Post Box Highlighter adds a "highlight" button to every post's action menu that allows one to temprorarily highlight the background of the target post. ...
3 votes
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Alignment issue in the Apps, Scripts tabs

There is an alignment issue in the Apps and Scripts tabs. The user name and the tag are not aligned right indent. Screenshot for reference:
4 votes
1 answer
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Items response empty after article POST request

I'm trying to post an article using StackExchange's Teams API then try to pull that new article's id from the API response. The article gets posted but the items field is empty : {"items":[],...
4 votes
2 answers
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!

As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. If ...
6 votes
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Bring back the layout!

Important notice: This update to site layout broke a lot of the layout adjusting scripts partially or completely. It affected my script as well - as of now, only pure-CSS adjustments work properly (...
4 votes
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Three Columns - Displays the question page, post textarea, and post preview in side-by-side columns

Three Columns ( install ) (github) This is a userscript which allows those with reasonably wide monitors to make the most of their screen real-estate when posting, by making the question, ...
8 votes
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Show revision diff color toggle

Sparked by this feature request on meta.SO, I created a quick user script that offers a toggle to show or hide diff colors. Look at the following screenshot to see it in action. The upper view is how ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Misaligned label "Stack Apps Post (optional)" on app information page

When editing the application information (from https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/), the label for the optional Stack Apps Post is misaligned: It should be left-aligned like the other labels; the only ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Request for user script to calculate Wilson confidence ratings for posts

I came across the following blog post on the Internet recently: How Not to Sort by Average Rating: PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to ...
6 votes
2 answers
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Script to dynamically expand the Q/A text field

I'm searching for a script to (vertically) expand the text field in questions and answers as I type. I personally prefer seeing all content at once (while the area can be extended by manually dragging,...
11 votes
1 answer
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Replace badge icons with rubber ducks

The following userscript will replace the default badge icons with little rubber ducks // ==UserScript== // @name StackExchange, replace badge icons // @match *://*.askubuntu.com/* // @...
1 vote
2 answers
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OBSOLETE - Add Draft Save Links

Obsolete: Install and source links are dead. Script was written for much older version of the sites. Screenshot About This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds Save and Clear buttons for ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Review Tag Repositioner

About: This userscript clones the tags and adds them to the top of the post when working in the review queue. This is in response to a feature-request on Meta Stack Overflow. Installation: ...
1 vote
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StackExchange Hot Network Questions page icon size fix

As you might have noticed, some icons are huge and others are tiny on the StackExchange HNQ page (aka the main page). Here's a userscript that fixes this issue: // ==UserScript== // @name ...
8 votes
2 answers
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names

A picture says more than a thousand words: These users aren't called "Bhargav Rac" and "Tunak", but Bhargav Rao and Tunaki. This happens on both the 'apps' and 'scripts' tabs of the Stack Apps ...
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StackApp NNTP bridge for accessing Stack Exchange sites (like Stack Overflow)

Screenshot About With this NNTP Bridge you can follow all posts of Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) very easily. Each question will be shown as one thread with all tags, the ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Why doesn't the API return a 'locked date' for this locked answer?

This answer has been locked, yet when I ask the API about this post it fails to return a locked_date: It's a rather old lock, but I can't see anything suspicious in the timeline or the Post History.
4 votes
1 answer
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/questions returns wrong markdown when a suggested edit is improved

The /questions API method returns wrong markdown when the last revisions were made by a suggested edit improved in the review queue. This event leads to two revisions (one for the suggested edit and ...
3 votes
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Stack Snippet Lag Fixer

About Inspired by this question on SO Meta. Sometimes, when posting or editing posts with one or more Stack Snippets, the editor requires a lot of resources to continuously re-render the post preview. ...
6 votes
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View up and down votes, for everybody

About: This userscript lets everybody view the up and down vote counts on a question or answer -- whether or not they have the "Established User" privilege. It replaces Rob W's old script, which was ...
7 votes
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VisualCrumbs - StackExchange Visual Changes

Screenshot / Code Snippet About I created this script because I wanted to customize my personal use of Stack Overflow (And such Stack Exchange sites) to be more visually appealing to me and give me ...