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The Amplitwist

Jun 23 05:19

The citation helper doesn't seem to be working for me. After opening the tool, entering the details in the search bar of the "Insert citation" popup window, and hitting return, I only see the search continuing indefinitely (the three sliding dots keep recurring). No suggestions show up.

The Amplitwist

Jun 23 05:19

The citation helper works fine for me on MathOverflow, though.

Dean Miller

Jun 18 09:06

There currently appear to be multiple questions regarding the existence of Banach limits (see here) on MSE and many of the current answers to these questions could be presented more clearly. For examples, see here, here and here.

mathbeginner

Apr 5 18:20

When I am ready to submit the question. The "review the question" button is invalid. How to deal with this problem?

user21820

Mar 30 10:04

So this is how SE does a survey that is biased before beginning.

Martin R

Aug 14, 2024 13:56

It seems that the colors of the “join this room” and “view transcript” buttons on the info page of a chatroom changed, the contrast is very bad now. Can anybody else confirm this change?

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Sine of the Time

Dec 17, 2024 18:07

🥶🥶🥶

Xander Henderson

Aug 7, 2024 17:01

I cannot tell you how many times I have closed a question and had the author of the question delete it while I am writing a comment explaining how they can improve their question in order to get it reopened.

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Xander Henderson

Aug 7, 2024 16:33

The goal of the SE network is to help people (not persons) by constructing a repository. The SE model is not about one-on-one tutoring. The idea is to help people by providing them with an encyclopedic resource which they may consult when they have a question.

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Xander Henderson

Dec 13, 2024 00:39

!freeze

Shaun

Dec 5, 2024 19:57

I'm just checking in to keep the room going :)

Martin Sleziak

Oct 25, 2024 23:34

in Charcoal HQ, 9 hours ago, by Spevacus

SE has upped the base number of flags everyone can cast network-wide to 100, as a response to the network-wide spam wave we're receiving. If you have the flag posts privilege, you should have 100 available to cast by default now. In addition, the maximum number of flags you can have as a result of helpful flag count + reputation is now 1000, up from 100.

Martin Sleziak

Oct 21, 2024 23:44

45

Q: Chat upgrade incoming! No feature changes, but major under-the-hood work

TL;DR We'll be deploying a new version of Chat that has significant under-the-hood changes. Ideally you won't notice anything, but just in case, here's what's happening: Likely on Wednesday, October 23, chat.meta gets the new version. I'll be in the Tavern when I deploy the change, so if you not...

The Amplitwist

Oct 1, 2024 02:10

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Q: Upgrade plans for MathJax v3/v4

While this is not the way I wanted to announce this, it seems the cat is out of the bag. But for those who haven't noticed, as part of our Community Asks Sprint, I spent the week investigating how we might go about upgrading our MathJax version from 2.x to 3.x+, as had been requested in several p...

discussion community mathjax

Martin R

Aug 14, 2024 14:03

Apparently the color for “visited” links changed generally, and that makes a bad contrast here.

Jakobian

Aug 9, 2024 19:36

@FShrike right click, new tab, or you can click on the hyperlink titled "permalink" after clicking the grey area (blue for your own comments) on the left of the comment

Xander Henderson

Aug 9, 2024 19:31

@FShrike If you look at the permalink for a chat, there is a long string of numbers. Start a chat message with :[that number] , and the new chat will refer back to the indicated message. So, for example, my previous message links to itself.

FShrike

Aug 9, 2024 19:27

It would be great if these chats allowed self-replies. Is that possible?

Xander Henderson

Aug 7, 2024 17:00

@Joako Questions which don't meet the quality standards of the site should be closed quickly. When such questions are not closed quickly, it is often the case that someone posts a Fastest Gun in the West answer, which is later invalidated by edits to the question, which are made as the asker works to refine and specify their issue.

Martin R

Aug 5, 2024 05:43

This item was now changed by one user to “Some users request that you disclose any involvement in the targeted thread [...], but others believe this is not necessary” with a link to a chat discussion.

Martin R

Aug 5, 2024 05:42

The current Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes and its predecessors had an item “If you are involved in the thread which you post about [...], please disclose this.” This was added in July 2020, so we have that for four years now.

hardmath

Aug 4, 2024 15:40

@MartinSleziak It's a little ironic that the dupehammer was used based on tag abstract-algebra, but then that tag was removed. I don't think the dup target selected was appropriate in this case, as it lacks any connection to the Eisenstein criterion. If I were pressed to find a better dup target I would. In any case use of the duphammer (making a unilateral decision) is worth reviewing on some time scale. Thanks for your research!

Martin R

Jul 25, 2024 13:30

There are still more than 100 posts on Mathematics and some posts on Mathematics Meta which use “goo.gl” links.

Martin R

Jul 25, 2024 13:29

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Q: Goo.gl links will stop working on August 25, 2025, which will break them in posts

Google's link shortener "goo.gl" was disabled back in 2018, but existing links still redirect to their destination. However, according to this Google blog, on August 25, 2025, these links will stop functioning. Doing a quick search finds 9,042 posts that use goo.gl links. Should we begin replacin...

discussion google broken-link

Martin Sleziak

May 14, 2024 12:40

Xander Henderson

Jul 26, 2023 20:55

For what it is worth, SE has made a couple of announcements on Meta today:

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The Amplitwist

Jun 5, 2023 04:26

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Q: Moderator strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers

Introduction As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network are initiating a general moderation strike. This strike is in protest of recent and upcoming changes to policy and the platform that ...

discussion community company

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Martin R

May 21, 2023 18:53

It is great that developer of MathJax explains the issue in detail, but I wonder if the questions should be closed as duplicates of one of them, instead of having three separate identical answers.

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Jakobian

Feb 22, 2024 16:49

discussions more akin to math.meta.stackexchange.com ?

Jakobian

Feb 22, 2024 16:48

What is this channel about?

Alexander Gruber

Feb 4, 2024 23:52

@MartinSleziak When someone deletes a bunch of their posts all at once, the mods are notified automatically, because sometimes people do that when they are ragequitting to spite the site and we can choose whether to save the content. Sometimes we suspend for this, because it generates a lot of manual work for the mods, and so that the user can cool off.

The Amplitwist

Jan 24, 2024 16:40

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Q: 2023: a year in moderation

It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on...

discussion statistics moderation

Martin R

Jan 6, 2024 10:36

Are contributions from anonymous/unregistered users a problem on Math SE? I just learned that these can be disabled on a site level, this has recently been discussed on Code Review:

Martin Sleziak

Jan 6, 2024 07:59

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Q: Do we want a banner regarding AI-generated content?

For details, see Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content The summary is that it is possible to have (currently) one of two banners, or no banner at all. The two banner options are: a reminder that AI-generated[1] content is not permitted on ou...

discussion

Martin Sleziak

Jan 5, 2024 12:16

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Q: Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content

tl;dr We’ve recently run an experiment to test a banner highlighting the “AI-generated content” policy on Stack Overflow. Next week we’ll be graduating the experiment that ran on Stack Overflow, and adding functionality to allow the "AI-generated content" policy banner to be enabled on Stack Over...

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The Amplitwist

Nov 28, 2023 18:48

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Q: Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur is ending - advance notice

For more than a decade, Imgur has provided image hosting services to Stack Exchange, but that hosting contract with Imgur comes to an end this upcoming April 2024. This April will conclude a decade-long successful relationship between Imgur and Stack, for which the whole company has been deeply ...

discussion images uploader imgur

Martin R

Sep 27, 2023 13:11

We noticed this recently and have been discussing it internally. We were focusing on addressing user access issues but I will check on the status of this discussion. I think one solution we had floated was to replace all of the old format URLs with the current one, which would make redirects unnecessary. At this point I hope users aren't still using the incorrect URLs. My understanding is that some variations of the redirects aren't possible (or require a lot of effort) and updating the links in bulk would likely be an easier solution. — Catija ♦ 3 mins ago

Martin R

Sep 27, 2023 12:02

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Q: meta.*.stackexchange.com redirection does not work

In 2017, all child Meta moved from meta.*.stackexchange.com to *.meta.stackexchange.com. According to Network-wide HTTPS: It's time there is an automatic redirection: We've redirected all child meta traffic from meta.*.stackexchange.com to *.meta.stackexchange.com, and are now forcing HTTPS. Th...

bug per-site-meta connectivity

Martin R

Sep 27, 2023 11:40

Currently the old URLs do not work with either http or https. – I'm going to report it on the Main Meta and see what happens ...

Martin R

Sep 27, 2023 11:22

According to meta.stackexchange.com/q/292058/196432, all meta.math URLS should automatically be redirected to math.meta, but that does not work for me anymore.

Martin R

Sep 19, 2023 07:23

I am tempted to rollback the last edit in math.stackexchange.com/posts/564740/revisions. If a question is about the specific notation $\subset \subset$ then that should not be changed, even if there is some other symbol denoting the same thing. Any opinions?

user21820

Aug 7, 2021 03:14

@ParamanandSingh Ever since the Monica incident, I had lost most hope that they could become better, because the longer they dig their toes into the mud, the more arrogant they become in order to 'preserve' their face. After all, if they knew best how to deal with Monica, why wouldn't they know best how to deal with a simple issue like UI redesign?

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amWhy

Aug 6, 2021 18:11

@user21820 Craziness. The highest in the hierarchy are clueless about how sites work; they rarely experience the things that actually need fixing, nor the items they think might need changing.

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user21820

Aug 6, 2021 17:26

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user21820

Aug 3, 2023 09:37

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A: Moderation strike: Results of negotiations

Before I'm to start significantly contributing and moderating again, I demand a public apology from someone within the company, one who was responsible for the policy change and/or the metrics that caused it. I cannot get past being ridiculed to the point that they claimed that at least hundreds ...

user21820

Aug 3, 2023 09:13

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Q: Moderation strike: Results of negotiations

We have reached the following conclusions during negotiations between community-selected strike representatives and representatives of Stack Exchange, Inc. This aims to address most of the concerns detailed in the strike letter, the initial strike announcement, and the conditions outlined in the ...

discussion featured community company moderation-strike

user21820

Jul 29, 2023 12:28

Reminds me of Shog9's tweet where he came out as the one who pressed the button to remove Monica's moderator status. He was falsely told that it was "extremely urgent" and that "details would be forthcoming". Jon Ericson subsequently wrote in his blog that he knew what was actually involved and would have refused to press the button had he been instructed (he happened to be out of office when the order came down). Moral of the story: don't press any buttons on the basis of mere assurances. I hope other employees see this and know what to do. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 2 days ago

user21820

Jul 29, 2023 12:25

> [...] I was the individual who pressed the metaphorical & literal button to disable the data dump upload job. [...] Because I find that statement as both factually incorrect and targeting me specifically, I do feel the need to address that comment. [...] I have specific firsthand knowledge of the decision to disable the Data Dump, as well as some of the research that went into that decision.

user21820

Jul 29, 2023 12:25

> I believe that the implication made by Philippe, that the Data Dump was never going to be disabled long term, is both untrue, and damaging to my reputation as a data professional, as a dutiful employee of Stack Overflow, and as a member of this online community.

Xander Henderson

Jul 26, 2023 20:55

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Q: The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE

Many words have been written around the company's commitment (or perceived lack thereof) to the ongoing existence of the data dumps, the API, and the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Much of that text can be confusing or conflicting. So in order to make clear the company's position, we're pub...

support data-explorer data-dump api policy

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