Questions tagged [meta]
For *either* meta questions about Stack Apps, or about how per-site metas are exposed by the API. (Stack Apps is its own meta site)
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Adjusting the question templates to better accommodate placeholders
From time to time, we see users posting placeholder questions using one of the templates. They have no useful information to add, so they just leave the template as is, which is very logical behaviour....
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/me/associated doesn't return meta sites anymore
The documentation of /me/associated says:
You can filter the network_users returned by this method with the types parameter. Specify, semicolon delimited, main_site or meta_site to filter by site.
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Promoting your [app]s - advertising contest proposal
I've proposed on Meta a contest for promoting StackApps applications developed with the API.
Please consider to leave your comments over there. (Bounty +250)
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Badge numbers are wildly erroneous for meta accounts returned by the /associated query
There is a serious problem with badge counts on meta sites as returned by
the /users/{ids}/associated route.
Consider this user (chosen for high volume of meta activity).
On Meta Stack Overflow, ...
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Moderation request: Make [user] a synonym of [users]
Please make user a synonym of users.
I proposed a synonym but there aren't enough high-rep users active here for that mechanism to work.
Currently*:
user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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"What is meta" should be rephrased
Stackapps.com/help/whats-meta tells that there is "Meta Stack Apps". However there isn't.
Stack Apps is its own meta and meta is used to ask meta questions here.
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Edit opportunity: Help remove image spam
ImageShack has replaced many old images, on Stack Exchange sites, with spam like:
Help us purge Stack Apps of this foul scourge! Here's how:
Pick a post that needs editing: You can use SEDE ...
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Remove API 1.x menu from the sidebar
Now that version 1.x of the API is on its way out the door permanently, can we go ahead and drop the associated menu from the sidebar?
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Let's delete the off topic questions?
There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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Remove meta badges
Currently, we have the Quorum and Convention badges even though Stack apps is its own meta so they are unobtainable. I think they should be removed to make it so only obtainable badges are on the ...
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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:
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Moderation request: Please make `app-key` a synonym of `api-key`
Refer to Are "api-key" and "app-key" the same thing?.
Although I've now retagged the questions that used app-key, there are still plenty of places where the redundant term is ...
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Why does the 'Apps' tab show hot questions and the 'Scripts' tab high scoring questions?
The Stack Apps homepage has two unique tabs which are not present on other sites: Apps and Scripts. There is a slight difference between the two, which is visible upon hovering:
That's right, the '...
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The fieldnames in the error message do not match the names used on the form
When you register an app here there are 4 fields that are required:
Application Name
Description
OAuth domain
Application Website
Leaving those fields empty returns this error message:
Image from I ...
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Apply required tag CSS class to the required tags in the "how to ask" side bar
When we ask a question, in the "How To Ask" side bar there is some information about the usage of the tags, such as support, bug and feature-request.
Since those are the required tags (with different ...
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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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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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When are Stack Apps questions shown with thumbnails instead of regular statistics?
Today I was browsing a tag here and I noticed that on the first pages, all questions are shown with thumbnails (most of the time, just the default one):
However, from page 5 on the formatting is like ...
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How is the Hot Apps and Libraries list determined?
I was wondering how the Top Apps / Hot Apps and Libraries list is determined. It currently looks like this (click to enlarge):
I've tried to compare it with the list of questions tagged app, both the ...
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Please add gallery thumbnails to this site's search results
I would like to link to a list of all my stuff, but I'd like it to display with thumbnails and excerpts (like it does on tag searches).
Is this possible? It seems like a reasonable use case, but for ...
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Please differentiate between meta sites for beta versus normal sites, in the /sites method
Currently, in the /sites method, a site can have a site_state of: normal, open_beta, closed_beta, or linked_meta.
This makes it easy to tell if a main site is in beta or not. But it becomes a 2 or 3 ...
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Stack Apps "Welcome Back" banner text isn't centered
This appear to be specific to Stack Apps. The text is centered on every other site I've tried. See below:
Compared to how it should appear:
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