Questions tagged [obsolete]
Apps, Scripts, Libraries, Bugs, Feature-requests, or APIs that are: deprecated, no longer available/supported, or no longer relevant.
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Always show all watched tags in right sidebar
Description
The watched tags list in the right sidebar are truncated if they exceed a threshold. See
Watched Tag list suddenly shortened and requiring manual expansion
This userscript addresses this ...
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OBSOLETE - Copy Code Exchange - copy code to clipboard from Stack Exchange sites!
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This is a userscript to copy code (from any <pre> element) to the clipboard from all Stack Exchange sites. It's pretty nice and cool to be able to copy the ...
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Hide Recognized Member text from the RM's flairs in the Collectives
Update: The request to not include Recognized text in RM's flair is now implemented. See staff answer here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/433645.
status-completed
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With the launch of ...
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OBSOLETE - stackchat.cpp - a C++20 library for Stack Exchange chat
This library has been made obsolete due to the following SE-induced problems:
Breaking the chat HTML
Making cloudflare so aggressive that the specific login method used quickly results in a hard ...
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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.
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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 ...
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OBSOLETE - Dragon: an automatic editor
OBSOLETE: No longer maintained, and I haven't used it for ages either. May or may not work as long as v2 of the API remains supported
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My revision history currently contains a lot of ...
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OBSOLETE - Add a heading when reviewing a suggested edit
Update:
With the recent redesign of the review queues, this script has become obsolete.
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Unlike other review queues, the suggested edits queue does not have a heading that indicates ...
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OBSOLETE - RankOverflow: A website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues
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Rank Overflow is a website to calculate your Stack Overflow reputation rank in all leagues easily and with one click.
I created this page because I wanted to know my percentage of my ...
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Only Stack Overflow has documentation, but the API erroneously lists documentation privileges for all sites
Privileges related to Stack Overflow Documentation are displaying in every other site's API data.
Using Meta Stack Exchange, for example, /2.2/privileges?site=meta returns the following documentation ...
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OBSOLETE - Official Stack Overflow iOS App
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Stack Overflow is the can’t-code-without-it site where professional and enthusiast programmers ask their toughest questions and get answers from their peers. Learn, share and ...
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OBSOLETE - SEdictionary: A Domain-specific Dictionary for Software Engineering Terms
We developed a domain-specific dictionary for terms in Software Engineering called SEdictionary. The dictionary includes the the definitions of software-specific terms, abbreviations and synonyms, ...
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OBSOLETE - Sentinel - monitoring new answers to old questions
(Please note that Sentinel is currently broken and will remain permanently unmaintained. A functioning version can be found here)
First there was Natty - looking for new answers to old questions that ...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Viewer - App for navigate in Stack Overflow and more
Obsolete: Links are dead; no source code.
This is a native android app for navigate in Stack Overflow.
You can see answers, questions, best users by reputation, search by text and tags among other ...
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OBSOLETE - Stackie - A Stack Exchange client for the Universal Windows Platform
About
Browse your favorite questions and answers across the entire Stack Exchange network with Stackie - a Stack Exchange client for the Universal Windows Platform.
A beautifully crafted User ...
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OBSOLETE - Clipboardy chrome extension to copy posted source to clipboard
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Clipboardy is a Chrome extension for copying posted code to clipboard from stackoverflow.com, github.com & npmjs.com. It can:
Copy the source code to clipboard ...
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OBSOLETE - Review Audit Detector
Motivated by the question Would a userscript to determine whether a review is an audit be illegal, I wrote a userscript for this purpose. The algorithm is as follows:
If the post score shown in review ...
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OBSOLETE - Enhanced Review
Obsolete: Install link is dead as well as the Source code link.
This userscript adds voting options to the sidebar of Close Review and Low Quality Review of Stack Exchange sites, as well as Help &...
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OBSOLETE - SkillRep - experiment in computing a skill focused reputation
Update: Now offline/closed. See the answer, below.
Reputation, on the Stack Overflow Site, is mostly a measure of a user's contribution.
That's fine but sometimes, when looking at a user you ...
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OBSOLETE - See the SOX post -- Side By Side Editing [duplicate]
This script no longer works and is no longer supported. See the Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) for this functionality.
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This userscript adds a button to the editor toolbar ('Toggle Side-...
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OBSOLETE - Rebuilt as another app / Full-featured reputation loader
This version of app is obsolete. I've just started rebuilding it, will be life approximately today or tomorrow (Feb 5-6, 2023). New version is live! Check it there: Voting activity tracker v2: check ...
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OBSOLETE - Freehand Circles Drawing Tool
What is it?
A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand circles (or anything else you might like to add).
It has been designed to work like ...
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OBSOLETE - Find old display names of a user
As observed here, it can be
confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names
So I've made a simple API-based tool:
Old display names of a user
It ...
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OBSOLETE - Review+Edit Page
Obsolete: The links are all dead. No source code.
This Chrome extension reorganizes the Review page of Stack Exchange sites, adding lists of questions that may need an intervention.
The review ...
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OBSOLETE - ChatSEy - An Android App for SE Chat
App removed
Now that we have a mobile chat that doesn't suck, I've taken this down.
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Completely overhauled styles, including default and dark themes
Reply to, star and flag ...
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SE API V1.1 documentation, date errata
The Stack Exchange API, version 1.1, documentation is ever so slightly confusing wherever Unix timestamps are mentioned (perhaps any ranges, I haven't dug too deeply)
For instance:
todate – Unix ...
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OBSOLETE - Review Stalker user script
Update: I don't have time to fix it at the moment and have also come to doubt the sustainability of this approach since putting it online, so I tagged it as obsolete.
This is a very basic user script ...
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OBSOLETE - StackFlair Widget - Highly customizable user flair widget for Android
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StackFlair is a highly customizable widget which displays your profile information (flair) from any website that is part of the Stack Exchange Network (http://stackexchange.com/).
★★ ...
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OBSOLETE - StackX - Android application for Stack Exchange (Free) (UI and optimization upgrade)
Update: 4/15/2013: Screenshots updated according to latest layout
An android application that will allow the user to browse through all of stack exchange websites using API v2.1.
Browse any of the ...
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OBSOLETE - Stackwise: a beautiful way to browse Stack Exchange sites
Obsolete: App not available, nor maintained for years. Source code not available.
Stackwise: a new Stack Exchange browser for iOS devices.
New features
(v1.3) Now with full iOS 7.0 support! Also, ...
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OBSOLETE - ProStack Lite - Stack Overflow inbox notifier and quick accessor for OS X (in Mac App Store)
This product is discontinued.
The post about it is retained below for posterity.
About
Tired of manually checking Stackoverflow.com for new answers and comments? Ever wished to access the ...
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OBSOLETE - Code::Trends - a visualization of the StackOverflow dataset
About
Code::Trends is an interactive analysis of a dataset taken from StackOverflow, including:
visualization of the technologies trends by time and location
recommendation for similar technologies
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OAuth Dialog rendering problems in iPad
I'm using the implicit OAuth flow for our native iPad app. We're calling the standard URLs in a UIWebView. The Stack Exchange login renders with several UI glitches.
The first screen looks correct:
(...
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OBSOLETE - SymbolHound Search
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// ==UserScript==
// @name StackExchange SymbolHound Search
// @description Uses SymbolHound instead of regular search if query begins with "sh:".
// @version 1.1
// @include http:...
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OBSOLETE - Stack Apps Listing Wizard - Making it easier to list your application right here on Stack Apps
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Listing an application here on Stack Apps can be a lot of work. First you have to visit this question and copy the markdown. Some of those fields don't apply to UserScripts and some ...
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OBSOLETE - StackTrace for iPad
StackTrace for iPad is now available in the App Store No longer in the iTunes store.
With StackTrace, we have taken a unique approach to consuming Stack Exchange content. Instead of focusing on ...
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OBSOLETE - StinkingBadges - Track your progress towards long-term badges
Introduction
I was curious how far away I was from Generalist, and there are some data explorer queries that can show you your progress, but I thought it should be possible to make this work with the ...
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OBSOLETE - StackOverflow Updater.. Update Questions without the refresh
Obsolete: App is long gone from the Chrome store. No source-code available. It was coded for a decommissioned version of the API anyway.
SOUpdater - UnRefresh! (1.2)
App
(Chrome-Extension)
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OBSOLETE - achivy.com, track all your statistics, reputation and badges in one place (now also supports coderwall)
About
Time to collect your achivies
Achivy adds some fun to your life. It supports Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange applications, GitHub,Coderwall Ohloh as well as many other applications to your ...
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OBSOLETE - revisions/{id} is returning an error for locked posts
The API is returning the following error message when I request the revision history for locked posts.
Example URL: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/revisions/194812
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
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OBSOLETE - SymbolHound: Search Stack Overflow for special characters
About
See symbolhound.com
SymbolHound is was a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. I was always frustrated that I couldn't search for symbols like >> and && using ...
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OBSOLETE - Live Home Page - Never touch the refresh button on the home page of a Stack Exchange site again!
Feature implemented and this script retired
This script is no longer needed since this feature is now built-in. This post will remain here for historical purposes.
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Live Home Page is a ...
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OBSOLETE - How to get the actual “body” of a question or answer?
How do I actually get the body (i.e. the textual content) of any say question or answer.
For example, for question (id= 7406104), I call:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions/7406104
But in ...
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Incorrect Wordpress and Electronics icons
Currently Meta Icon
Currently Main Icon
With all the other sites (except electronics, which has the same icon for both), Meta has the B&W or sepia icon, while the main site's icon is coloured.
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OBSOLETE - Stack Favorites: A basic organizer of your Stack Overflow favorites
App no longer available for use and not in development.
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This basic website allows users to organize their Stack Overflow favorites by tags, or search through ...
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OBSOLETE - Stacktistics: Show recent popular languages, mobile platforms and web techs based on question counts
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You may wonder what kind of languages, mobile platforms, or web technologies are most popular these days.
stacktistics shows the popularity of programming languages, ...
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OBSOLETE - StackImage 2 - Create Your Own Unique Custom Flair!
Examples
http://stackimage2.quickmediasolutions.com/4dd2fde77a2ca/stackoverflow/193619
http://stackimage2.quickmediasolutions.com/4dd3772eb3ae6/cooking.stackexchange/60
http://stackimage2....
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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.
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This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds Save and Clear buttons for use ...
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OBSOLETE - Add Timeline and Revisions Links
Obsolete: Script no longer works on any Stack Exchange site. Updated version found here.
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This is a simple Greasemonkey script which adds both timeline and revision links to ...
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OBSOLETE - StackAnywhere - A Stack Exchange client for Android
Discontinued
In light of the release of the official Stack Exchange app, which has far more functionality, there seems little point in releasing further updates for StackAnywhere. I've made the ad-...