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Does the [ruby-on-rails] tag add relevant context on top of [ruby]
We have the tag ruby-on-rails (7 questions) which is
... an open source full-stack web application framework written in Ruby. It follows the popular MVC framework model and is known for its "...
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PLACEHOLDER - Personal script
Script for personal use. Needed a post to get write access.
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View close/reopen votes without 3k rep
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This script enables you to view the close/reopen votes on a post without unlocking the cast close and reopen votes privilege unlocked at 3000 reputation.
Powered by Stack Exchange API.
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LinkPreview - Protection against hazardous links
In Action
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Links can be dangerous when clicked recklessly, especially when they are hidden by a title.
LinkPreview helps solve this problem by providing a way to view where links points to ...
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Make "Suggested edits" review tasks wider
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Ever since the Visual design changes to the review queues suggested edits have been too narrow. Especially when containing code blocks. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore.
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Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
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Live preview of the new counter:
The counter also preserves the "heatmap" colour coding:
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Disclaimer: please note that the script will not allow you to ...
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Answer delete votes in the post sidebar
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Users with more than 1000 reputation points can see delete votes in the post timeline, but it's much more convenient to have this information fetched and added to the sidebar:
Note that the ...
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Generate Headers - a utility package for validating and auto generating userscript manager headers
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Tired of writing out userscript headers by hand? Of small typos in your @match headers leading to wasted time? Generate Headers to the rescue: this utility package automates header generation ...
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Answer link titles in user profiles deserves closed status too
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User profiles show post closed status on the "Questions" tabs, but not on the "Answers" tabs. As noted, partially by me, in Should “duplicate” and “closed” attributes be ...
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Show the protected banner to everyone
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According to What is a "protected" or "highly active" question?, users with more than 10 earned but less than 15,000 reputation points aren't shown the protected banner:
It ...
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Make better use of the space in profiles, like profiles used to be
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The change to user profiles discussed in Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive has introduced some empty space. It can be seen directly in Profile page is very empty, revert to ...
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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 (...
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LegacyProfiles - Bringing back the old profile stats
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Note: The date is locale-based. Screenshot is in UTC
What is LegacyProfiles? (install, unminified)
LegacyProfiles brings back user info removed from profiles in a recent profile update. It is ...
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I don't think this tag was [release]d properly
The release tag seems redundant. Let's review it for burnination:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
No, it doesn't. We already have tags ...
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EasterEggExchange: Enable all easter eggs in chat
About
This script will enable all easter eggs in chat, namely:
Cthulhu
Send <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> and quotes from this answer fly around your ...
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Stack Exchange Global Types - a type declaration package for global objects exposed by Stack Exchange
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Stack Exchange global types is a type declaration package adding or augmenting type definitions for global objects exposed by Stack Exchange for client-side ...
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Placeholder - Hackathon - Demoapp
Testing a hackathon app to publish to SO more easily
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Save the waffles! Bringing back custom 404 pages to Stack Exchange
As per Aaron's answer, the change is temporarily reverted due to the backlash, so the userscript is not necessary for now. To compensate for the loss in usefulness, I decided to add per-site user ...
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Indicate that a user is moderator or staff using icons
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This script implements the suggestion from user1306322 to Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE, which was the original request that led to New ...
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Can "trends" be queried with the Stack Exchange API?
I've studied the Stack Exchange API to some extent (although I'm a newbie to such things), and it appears I can query the database using many criteria. But does Stack Exchange store any "trends&...
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ChatOvercharged - making inserting markdown links in chat convenient
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Chat Overcharged is a userscript that aims to improve the quality of life of chat users. It is a living project, and more features are going to be added as the ...
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Don't let me interact with this user's posts (for sockpuppets, mostly)
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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 ...
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CDNSaver - never look for a CDN link twice
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Stack Snippets provides a great shortcut for popular library CDN links via the dropdowns on the left sidebar. However, it's uncustomizable, and when it comes to ...
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Removing Collectives™ from Stack Overflow
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Inspired by the reaction to Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, I decided to create a small practical solution in the form of a user script.
It will remove almost all traces of ...
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Add a color highlight to closed questions in the question lists
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Adds a color highlight to closed questions. Inspired on a question asked by Hakan Fıstık
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The script will highlight the close reason found at the end of a question ...
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high_resolution_icon_url points to a non-existing image for Area 51 Discuss
In 2013 this bug was reported: Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
Since then a lot has improved. Most urls found in high_resolution_icon_url on the site type as returned by the /sites endpoint ...
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400 - Bad Request - Invalid URL errors with HTML response
Since a few weeks, I'm getting 400 - Bad Request errors now and then, on pretty standard API calls like fetching post details. This is the response I get:
<DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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Tab4SE - the TAB key in your post
Tab4SE
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Uses SmartTabbing™ technology to enable Tabing (Indent) and Shift+Tabing (Unindent).
Can be enabled via the toggle switch in the toolbar (preference is ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Custom Import Tool
Placeholder for a custom application allowing for internal uploading into a Stack Overflow for Teams instance.
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Should we add review queues to the API?
Review queues are unsupported on the Stack Exchange API, and it could be useful to write an app that would review. Should we add it to the API?
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How to handle default compression on response with Java's HttpURLConnection? [duplicate]
I sent a request for question with no parameters to
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
I received a response of 9764 bytes stored in ...
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Sloshy the Thawman: A simple bot for keeping Stack{Overflow,Exchange} chat rooms alive
On https://chat.stackoverflow.com/ and https://chat.stackexchange.com/, chat rooms will freeze after some two weeks of inactivity. While this is fine and status-bydesign, some rooms are worth keeping ...
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PLACEHOLDER - Sync markdown content from GitHub repo to answers in a Stack Overflow Teams community
I think this Stack Apps post is required to gain write access to the API.
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CommentAssist - Making comments just got easier
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Makes it easier to write mini-markdown in comments, especially for new users on Stack Exchange. It introduces a toolbar and keyboard shortcuts....
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Should status-reproduced be made a mod-only tag?
status-review has been recently made a mod-only tag, but status-reproduced remains a normal blue tag. While not currently used on any questions (except this one, for demonstration), eventually it ...
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Even though status-review has been made a moderator-only tag, it remains blue on this post
On this answer, status-review is mentioned. For whatever reason, the tag appeared as blue instead of red. I've also noticed that it does not appear on this post for some reason. I thought that ...
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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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View vote counts without 1k rep automatically
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Have you ever wished someone combined "View Vote totals" without 1000 rep and Auto-Load Vote Counts? Well, now they've been combined! Vote counts can now auto-load without 1k rep ...
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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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Request for user script to show/estimate moderator candidate scores from the time the user nominated in the election
I'd like a user script that, on moderator election pages, queries the API for user's candidate scores at the time they nominated in the election in question. Election pages, including historical ...
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I only need a key, what do I do?
I'm told by others and read in Looking for a beginner's tutorial to using the API that I need "To Get A Key!" but when I then visit https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register I'm stil ...
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Why was Not a Real Question deleted?
I posted an answer on Not a Real Question's Stack Apps post and shortly after, the entire post was deleted by animuson. I'm not sure why it was deleted, it seems on-topic because it is related to the ...
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Where can I find login api for logging in stackexchange?
I need my bot (me) to login without myself involved in it. I've set up my node server, but now I can't figure out how to login. I'll need fkey to connect to socket, and for that I feel I'll need to ...
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PLACEHOLDER - App Carmin.tv (prod)
The App is for Prod environment
https://www.carmin.tv/
Carmin is a video platform of major french Scientific Institutes (IHES, CIRM, IHP, CIMPA) sharing contents from Research (courses, interviews, ...
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StackMarks™ - Better bookmarks for a better experience
v1.4.2, 2021/6/10 UTC
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Notice: There have been breaking changes to the UI. This preview is outdated (per version 1.0). View the most updated preview in the user manual at the bottom of this ...
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TeamMod v1.1-alpha - Enables moderation features in Teams
I don't care, gimme the download link!
You can download the script from its GitHub repo, or use the direct download link.
Credits
I've developed this by myself, but I'd like to thank Tyberius from ...
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Toggle Stack Overflow Chat Sidebar
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On toggle show sidebar:
On toggle hide sidebar:
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The sidebar will be automatically hidden. When you want to see the sidebar, take the mouse to the right edge of the screen and the ...
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User script to auto flag NLN (no longer needed) comments
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The user script uses multiple search keyword combinations via RegEx to catch NLN (no longer needed) comments and send them to the chat room. Currently, the script is running in this ...
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Dragon: an automatic editor
Placeholder removal
While the placeholder tags have been removed, this project is still very much experimental - Dragon now works, but it doesn't always work well. Common sense while using is still ...
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ReplyOverflow v1.0
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ReplyOverflow preserves continuity between comments everytime you reply by allowing an option to save the message content to a URL.
How do I use it?
If you want to ...