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Q: Help center page links to redirects with HTTP errors

In the help center for Graphics Design, the highly visible page What topics can I ask about here? has some broken links. It says For some kinds of questions that are a weird fit for our Q&A model, we have rules to keep them fitting and answerable: font identification; critique; ...

bug status-completed

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2:07 PM

@WELZ there's a valuable question in there somewhere, but it would be almost a completely different question. Brand new user that didn't revisit the site, so I doubt it can be salvaged :\ I left a comment anyway

we have racks in our warehouse dedicated to all kinds of bottles that we've used and that our competitors use, we keep them around specifically because they're all different

Do you work for a "drink company"?

yeah

sorta

so you get to try their nasty (green) stuff for free? xD

I work for a company that has mulitiple subsidaries and one of them is a juice company

haha yeah ~~are subjected to~~ get the pleasure of trying product development samples all the time

I have not tried the nasty green stuff but that is a very new thing, I mostly work on normal non-nasty tasting juices :P

I may have even drank from a bottle that you designed the packaging for :o

2:15 PM

haha

it is more likely that you've used a reusable shopping bag that I designed, that was my previous job

Was it for a specific chain, or was it those generic ones?

all kinds

yes to both

Aha! you must be the genius designer of the "solid black shopping bag"

:P

well I referred to it as "midnight charcoal"

it was eloquent

Lmao, now you're sounding like Apple

2:21 PM

:D

Did you design any bags for big chain stores?

big ≈ 50+ stores nationwide

oh yeah that was primarily what we did, small orders typically weren't worth it

I probably have used a bag that you made, cool!

haha, it was largely unimaginative work. Most stores just wanted their logo and stock pictures of produce

rarely did I get to have fun creatively

I always knew you were just empty packaging @JohnB :P

2:33 PM

pun intended

:D

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4:19 PM

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Q: How to make text look like readable English but is actually illegible?

I’m looking to obfuscate some text by making it completely illegible. While this is very easy to do in handwriting, I need it to be done on a webpage in Verdana. I was thinking that I could possibly make a Verdana-esque font that has the top and bottom halves of many letters switched, or I could...

Should that be migrated to UX?

@Ryan No.

@Ryan good job on that answer that exploded somehow

@Wrzlprmft why not? I don't see how it has anything to do with design

@WELZ it got in the "Hot Network Questions"

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5:30 PM

How do some of the nominations have upvoted comments? :?

I believe that was a thing you could do but then someone pointed out it was probably not a good thing so it was removed

legacy upvotes

ah, was wondering

I was reading through the first election(s)... @JohnB and @Yisela you guys were really hot, people seemed to love you guys, why'd you both stop?

If I've made you uncomfortable, I apologize. I was just wondering.

haha no problem I don't mind you asking

you just won't answer :P

I always tell people that when they say "Can I ask you something?"

5:46 PM

I will! I just don't have the time to participate in the site as much after changing jobs. And I didn't really have the time either at my previous job after a shift in my role in the company

Yisela was similar, she moved to a different country and got a new job

I think the only reason we were "really hot" is because we were the only active moderators during the beta right before the election :P

@JohnB what was with the other mods?

I think Pearson and Alan were the only other mods during the election but they didn't really participate in the site anymore, just lost interest I guess!

Alan... he's the start of my very controversial meta post

ah, I forgot those league things even existed :D

6:17 PM

@JohnB you want to moderate don't you :]

@Ryan It’s about typography and legibility, which are clear on-topic on this site.

@Ryan idk, it's kinda nice living the bum life and not having to care about site problems! :P

I did enjoy it thought :)

If we have an election I'm going to do my best to nominate you :)

I'll be the next Putin

JohnButin

6:27 PM

that has a nice ring to it!

JohnButin for President of Russia!

Ryan, you better hide...

They're gonna find you

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8:24 PM

Feb 28 at 14:49, by JohnB

I'd like to propose an international standard for supplying die lines

when I said that, I was whining that they're sometimes sent with annoying stuff like strokes expanded

new low today: what appears to be a scan of a printout of a dieline converted to a PDF

SO Election Primary happening now!

I have cast my votes

I wasn't planning on voting until I saw someone that I need to vote against running

@Ryan LOL!

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