13
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Accepted
What to do about the tsunami of placeholder apps created because of a poorly written tutorial?
I like the idea of adding a close reason for this. A custom off-topic reason, something like,
This is a placeholder question for an app that's still under development; it will be deleted within 9 ...
- 641
11
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in February)
Legacy Questions: Bringing Back The Old Questions Design
I'm not the maker of this script, but it's the best.
Most people don't love the new questions design, the -473 ...
- 213
10
votes
Accepted
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
Yes, it would. And now you do!
Pushed some improvements for your Community Bulletin experience:
No more "Stack Apps has no Site.ChildMeta defined" message
Posts with the featured tag on ...
- 216
8
votes
Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!
feature-requeststatus-planned
The Stack Apps home pages are not giving new users the best impression.
Several obsolete, placeholder, beta, and low-scoring apps and scripts are placed prominently there....
- 13k
8
votes
How do I get notified of events in SE chat?
You can register a callback with Stack Exchange Chat, which gets called prior to the change happening in the DOM (i.e. if you want to find a new message in the DOM, you need to use a setTimeout() to ...
- 1,658
7
votes
Accepted
How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?
You cannot get the days visited, nor consecutive, information for a user because that is private information(Poster is SE representative).
Stack Exchange is supposed to be about the content, not the ...
- 13k
7
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in June 2024)
Let's try to make a success of the Staging Ground. If that UX comes under powered for reviewers, the users that will make or break the staging ground, they need support. ...
rene♦
- 2,762
6
votes
Does this site need more moderators?
Users Glorfindel and rene were appointed as moderators on June 2 2021, they join Tim Stone. Currently one is a moderator on a few sites and both are active on the Stack Exchange network, usually a few ...
- 201
6
votes
Accepted
Are bounties on Stack Apps productive?
My opinion is that they probably do not help, but that could change if you post a large enough bounty and are somehow able to "advertise" it (maybe in chat) to enough people that can answer (...
- 13k
6
votes
Accepted
Request for user script to remove mask from posts deleted as spam or offensive
I've written a simple script for this, called NSFW (because it shows content that is Not Suitable For Work). It will only work if you have 10k reputation (2k on beta sites); otherwise, you probably ...
- 6,885
5
votes
How to get new questions continuously?
Probably the most cost-effective way is to poll /questions every minute or two. (Results are cached so, polling more than once a minute probably won't do anything but chew up your quota.)
Related: ...
- 13k
5
votes
What should we do about dead listings?
Yes, obsolete listings (script / app / library) should at the very least, be made obvious at a glance and ideally obvious in search results.
For reference, there are currently only 754 listings that ...
- 13k
5
votes
Accepted
Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?
Based on a reasonable response for Stack Apps, this has now been done.
Merged stack-exchange into support (which many of the questions already had) and deleted support from those posts where it didn'...
- 13k
5
votes
Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?
Yes. I would agree that the tag serves no purpose.
With only 24 questions, let us lose it.
- 262
5
votes
Accepted
Why was Not a Real Question deleted?
You have posted the 4th answer that confirmed the app no longer worked. The first answer that came to the same conclusion was posted in 2014.
If you have nothing new to add to an Q/A, please refrain ...
rene♦
- 2,762
5
votes
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a Community Bulletin?
@Catija just informed us the Community Bulletin is now live. Because Stack Apps is ... special (it's a main site but also its own Meta, just like Meta Stack Exchange), we won't see posts featured here,...
- 6,885
5
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in March)
One-Click Reviews
Having to make two clicks every time you make a review in a review queue can be really annoying and time-consuming. This is especially so if you're making ...
- 521
5
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in April)
AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE
One of the first scripts I ever installed, and it has been a major productivity saver ever since. When moderating sites (as a ...
- 6,885
5
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in July)
Restore syntax highlighting on review and revision pages
Fixes this annoying bug reported in MSO that disables syntax highlighting on suggested edits and revisions.
- 723
5
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured from June until August 2023)
Stack Exchange in read-only mode
In light of recent announcements by the company who owns these sites, it seems like this script is going to come in handy ...
- 265
5
votes
(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
This request will be status-planned and we hope to have this completed in the near term in a future sprint.
tanj92Staff
- 151
5
votes
Accepted
(Should we) add [Staff] labels to staff member flairs?
Tada! π This was an easy change on our end, it turns out we already had functionality to turn this on for individual sites. Our code doesn't define Stack Apps as a Meta site so Stack Apps doesn't get ...
- 166
4
votes
Accepted
Request for user script to change the comment delete button from the word "Delete" to the old gray X
Here is a GreaseMonkey script I threw together:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Old Comment Delete Button
// @version 1.1.0
// @grant none
// @author a stone arachnid
// @include https://*...
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4
votes
Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!
bugfeature-request
Can we get the home page to show all the tags for a post.
And also, ideally, the post's score:
EG, from:
To:
- 13k
4
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in September)
Global Flag Summary
Allows one to see their moderator flag status from every site in one unified place. This is especially useful for Charcoal users who've enabled ...
- 521
4
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in October)
Stack Exchange Global Review Summary
As a semi-active reviewer its nice to see how many total reviews I have done with out needing to go to each queue and add them up ...
- 231
4
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
script (featured in November)
Stack Overflow Extras (SOX)
Unlike the name suggests it can be used for all of SE. It has a bunch of features like showing your helpful flag percentage on your recent ...
- 231
4
votes
What's the next Script/App/Library of the Month?
library (featured in January 2023)
Stack Exchange Global Types
Contains type definition for the vast majority of the StackExchange.* methods with a short description for each one. Useful for ...
- 723
3
votes
What should we do about dead listings?
I would vote for the historical lock option.
Straight deletion is harsh and someone somewhere may still need the information.
Creating a custom close reason could conceivably see posts erroneously ...
- 262
3
votes
Should we close questions which ask for feedback to go elsewhere?
Closing them would help the developers, as sites like GitHub make it much easier to track and act on issues.
However, I don't think we should/can assume that every Stack Apps user has an account on ...
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