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6:37 AM

A: Edition of formulas from a generic New Contributor for the first post or comment: how do they learn it?

A new user to the site is shown the following page before asking their first question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/ask/advice It starts: Welcome to Mathematics Stack Exchange! To improve the chances of your question getting an answer, make sure that it: Uses MathJax...

Is the advice page still shown before the first question? My impression was that it was removed at the time of this announcement: The new ask page is now live on the network! — Martin Sleziak 25 secs ago

See the paragraph starting "The /questions/ask/advice page has been replaced by a new modal for first-time askers, ... "

I have asked about this in MO chat some time ago - but I did not get a response there. (However, MO never had the /ask/advice page shown to the first time askers.)

4 hours later…

Martin Sleziak

10:29 AM

@MartinSleziak good point. Presumably not. I had not realized this change. It be interesting to know what exactly is shown now. — quid ♦ 17 mins ago

quid

@MartinSleziak I did not realize that change affected this. I don't know what exactly is shown now. I'll check.

What's slightly inconvenient is that I'll need to register to ask...

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Martin Sleziak

12:09 PM

Yeah, that is a bit unfortunate.

Should some discussion be started on meta about customizing the modal window mentioned in the above post?

quid

@MartinSleziak maybe it is customized?

Who knows?

Martin Sleziak

I got this on a new account before I started to type the question:

quid

1:07 PM

@MartinSleziak that's great. Both because now we know, and even more so as the information is still there.

If you don't mind, I'll include the image in the meta post.

Martin Sleziak

1:39 PM

That's ok, feel free to use the screenshot.

To have some record of that, I'll copy the parts that contain links:

> Uses MathJax formatting for math formulas

> Has an interesting, specific title that summarizes the question

> Describes what you know and what you don't understand (don't just copy a textbook problem!)

> Here are some additional tips:

> Before you post, search the site to make sure your question hasn’t been answered

It seems to be basically the same as in the "How to ask" page: math.stackexchange.com/questions/ask/advice

quid

2:17 PM

@MartinSleziak it seems SE took care of the transition in a very good way. I don't know if it came up with us even; I think they just did it. Do you have any ideas for modification?

Martin Sleziak

No, not really.

I did not know until now that the modal window is customized on Mathematics.

Of course, I might be able to think of a better link for searching, but I might be biased there.

Anyway, since we're talking about user interface, I'll just remind my proposal to include the "search faq" on meta somewhere in the help center: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/20352/2020/5/2 math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27421/…

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quid

3:27 PM

@MartinSleziak I think it's a good idea, but I am not sure that the meta post in its current form is ideal for escalation. I'd prefer if there was on or two to the point requests.

That are also optically set apart in the question, or maybe a new to be accpeted answer that states what should be done.

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quid

7:48 PM

Congratulations to @Dr.XanderHenderson even though despite the mask it appears he is not a real doctor, merely a mathematician. ;D