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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StackExchange™ SuperCollider Freehand Circle™ Editor - [Now supported on EVERY StackExchange site!]
Update Jul 2015:
The author is not able to update anymore. Use Freehand Circles Drawing Tool instead.
Important:
All SE sites (with one exception - see below) are now supported. Please ...
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Announcing API version 1.1 and Roadmap
As has been announced on the blog, we're rolling out a minor revision of our existing read-only API.
While the blog post gives some high level details, I figured [app] developers would appreciate some ...
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'Saviour' of Lost Souls
'Saviour' of Lost Souls
Meta sites, but especially Meta Stack Exchange, see a lot of 'lost souls', users who have no idea that they're on Meta (e.g. because of a suboptimal email or a Stack Overflow ...
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What to do about the tsunami of placeholder apps created because of a poorly written tutorial?
Last months, we're seeing more and more placeholder apps created by people who are following a certain Android tutorial. I'm not going to give examples because it's really hard not seeing them. I feel ...
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What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
Now that we have a Community Bulletin, we use it to highlight questions (more precisely scripts/apps/libraries) which deserve to be highlighted. All we ♦ moderators need to do is slap a featured tag ...
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What's with the reputation here on Stack Apps?
This site is only a couple of hours old, yet there are 33 users with over 2000 rep and 9 with over 4000. Are these values holdovers from dev.meta.stackoverflow.com, where everyone started out with ...
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Transmogrify offtopic MSO posts
See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/134710/178438
Oftentimes, MSO is cluttered with offtopic programming questions asked by those who want to circumvent a question ban. These posts are eyesores, and ...
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Version 1.0 released 9th of July
For a lot of us, that would be next Friday.
At some point - most likely after noon PST - version 0.9 of the API will be replaced with the final 1.0 release.
There are no expected interface changes ...
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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits it 8 times
I've edited my App 8 times and my question has switched automatically to Community Wiki (I'm aware that it's reported in the faq).
The main reason of these many edits is my shaky english, but I can ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
A couple of days ago I answered a question about the Stack API.
As my answer could be illustrated with a working code example I went ahead to create a Stack Snippet. To my surprise that feature isn'...
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"Informed" badge shown as Next badge, but doesn't exist on this site
On my profile page, the Informed badge is shown as the next badge to obtain:
Clicking it even shows a popup with a link to the Tour page, but it looks quite different from other SE sites. Looking at ...
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Our site is a bit special and different in some places compared to "regular" sites in the Stack Exchange network.
For example:
We are are both a Meta and a Main site.
We have a special API ...
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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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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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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?
The Stack Apps topic help makes it clear that all questions here must pertain to Stack Exchange in some way:
If your question is about …
the Stack Exchange API
applications built on the ...
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Does this site need more moderators?
I've noticed that flags that I have raised on Stack Apps stopped being handled late last year. According to our moderators page, we have two moderators, but looking at profiles indicates that one hasn'...
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App without API and legal issues
Forgive me I did not find the "meta" for the Stack Apps, I believe it is here that I must ask.
I developed an extension for browsers, but I'm not using the Stack Exchange API. Can I post it on Stack ...
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Are apps created from the CC data dump ok to add?
I've created a few apps in the past using the CC data dumps that I can't move over to the API at this point. It seems like the stackapps site is meant to be the place to find apps for Stack Exchange ...
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The 'should be closed' description in the flag dialog is missing a word
The 'should be closed...' reason has this description (emphasis mine):
This question is completely unclear, incomplete, overly-broad, primarily opinion-based or is not about Stack Exchange API, app,...
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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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MetaStackApps: "Library" Tab
Not sure if this is appropriate here (no Meta site yet), but here goes...
I think it'd be a good idea to have a "Library" navigation tab (next to the "Apps tab"), so that people can easily see ...
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Support - Another thing from Meta
We really need to have the support tag as a required tag.
Why? Well...
What is the syntax for specifying parameters?
Is there a way of querying how much of the API limit has been used?
Can I apply ...
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Should feature-requests, for third party apps, be flagged as "not an answer"?
I spotted this "answer" as a first-time post:
Feature Request
Please add support for proxies.... It would be helpful to people behind proxies.
Like "ME"
I was going to flag it as "Not an ...
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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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Is Stack Apps the place to suggest applications?
Is StackApps.com the place to suggest applications you would like to see created?
I sometimes receive suggestions along the lines of "Is it possible add [feature-suggestion] to Stack Exchange?" I ...
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
The issue of a non-existent badge being promoted has been brought up before, but the following still happens:
This will likely disappear once I get another badge (soon after posting this question :), ...
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What should we do about dead listings?
There are a few pending flags on posts for applications/scripts/libraries where the advertised program no longer works, sometimes meaning that the link to the source code and/or binary is also dead.
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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, ...
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Should status-review be made a mod tag?
On most other meta sites, status-review is a moderator tag, however on stack apps (which is it’s own meta) it is not a moderator tag. Since there is no status-review moderator tag on stack apps, ...
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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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Is there documentation on how to install scripts?
Is there documentation, or at least links, on how to how to install JavaScript scripts for your web browser of choice? Most of the FAQ seems to be about how to create StackApps, rather than how to use ...
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Does Stack Apps have some special rep and Community Wiki modifications?
I have posted a "question" (actually an app) on Stack Apps, and received two upvotes on it. Each gave me 10 reputation. This runs counter to every other Stack Exchange site - and, indeed, the Stack ...
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What's the difference between the Stack Exchange API and the Stack Overflow API?
I heard about the Stack Overflow API. Is there a Stack Overflow API available. Or is it the same as the Stack Exchange API?
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Please migrate the question templates to CommonMark
We have three templates for new questions (for apps, libraries and scripts):
They'll insert a body like this:
<!-- thumbnail: https://example.com/some-image.png -->
<!-- version: 1.0 -->
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Should we close questions which ask for feedback to go elsewhere?
For example, the maintainers of this app have requested that new feedback goes over GitHub instead of the answer section. I've seen at least one other case of this too. Essentially, Stack Apps answers ...
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Invisible text in Markdown syntax help
Some text is invisible in the How to Format help block because of a bad combination of text and background color:
That's meant to read
► backtick escapes `like _so_`
but the backquoted portion is ...
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Why have recent dev-tip posts been forced into community wiki without explanation despite ongoing community self-regulation?
Preface
Please note that this question is neither about community wiki nor reputation, rather about acceptable moderation, (to stress that I've made it community wiki in itself). Therefore I need to ...
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How can I get a user's Meta site details in the API call?
This query returns the details of the Main sites only:
/associated-users#ids=2855348
How can I get the Meta site details also in the same query?
Do I need to add any ...
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The Faq Has a Broken Link
Currently the first link in the FAQ points to http://dev.stackapps.com/?tab=apps. It should link to https://stackapps.com/?tab=apps.
Simple fix, but it confused me for a short time.
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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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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 ...
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Are bounties on Stack Apps productive?
Stack Apps doesn't have a Featured tab like other SE sites. Is starting a bounty to promote your Stack App a stupid idea?
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How do I get the ten reputation required to post an image for my app?
Funny that in order to enter and include a screenshot, you need ten reputation points. Go figure.
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Is dev.meta.stackoverflow.com gone?
Sorry If I am posting in wrong place, but when I try to login to dev.meta.stackoverflow.com today, I got password protected page and looks like previous password is not valid anymore.
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StackApps Captcha doesn't work: "Invalid domain for site key"
The Captcha page on this site doesn't seem to be set up correctly, it shows an error message:
ERROR for site owner:Invalid domain for site key
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Do the questions tagged "placeholder" need it explicitly in the title?
I have create a placeholder question, but just noticed that all the other ones have "(placeholder)", "[PLACEHOLDER]" or some variant in the title.
Do I need to include it in the title if it's tagged?
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