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Do we want a banner regarding AI-generated content?
Banner: not permitted
Upvote this answer if you are in favour of having a banner reminding users that AI-generated content is not permitted on math.stackexchange.com
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Let's require registration to ask a question
It's... uh... been a while since this request was made. We require a few things before turning a switch like this - it's pretty harmful to small sites to have what is a large chunk of potential askers ...
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The scope of \newcommand is the entire page
It pains me to break this thread by fixing the issue, but here we are. :)
We are now inserting \begingroup and \endgroup ...
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Why is MSE still down (read-only)?
What happened?
During our planned maintenance window on March 17th/18th, a sequence of events in our Colorado data center left Mathematics Stack Exchange in read-only mode for several hours after the ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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A feature requested for the purpose of avoiding unintentional newbie-biting
Sorry about being late to weigh in - I was busy last weekend.
Why I support this feature-request?
The norm re context that we have developed means that new questions at varying levels of ...
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MathJax is breaking in short expressions frequently today.
A quick note. We know what's going on, it's a change which had some side effects. I'll take a stab very soon.
Update: It looks better now, as you need 60 consecutive unbroken characters to replicate ...
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Slightly more informative error messages when the title is too long
We are putting this into our bug-duty rotation and should get to this within a few weeks. (Sorry it's taken 8+ years!)
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Voting to delete a Question after it has been reopened and reclosed
This has now been fixed. Users are now again able to cast a subsequent delete vote if the post in question has been reopened and reclosed without an actual deletion event.
Thanks for bringing this to ...
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What happened to the [support] tag on meta?
So... Yesterday, Jon Arndt found an obscure bug over on Super User:
Normally, when looking at tag information, at the bottom of the screen, there is a button labeled "Edit Tag Info".
However, ...
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Should we divide [tag:dimension-theory] into 2 tags, one for topology, and one for algebra?
So far it seems from the votes and comments lean towards separating dimension theory in analysis/topology from dimension theory in algebra.
Let me just add one additional suggestion.
Suggestion. Do ...
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How many people voted in the 2021 Moderator Election?
The correct number of voters/valid ballots is the one OpaVote is showing — so for the case of Math's 2021 election, that's 1882.
It looks like the count presented on site was counting all the users ...
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Links in spoilers aren't hidden
I've gone an updated the CSS for spoilers - there was something overriding the spoiler CSS in this instance.
With you in the next build (rev. 2017.3.14.*)
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Why is the PDE tag abbreviated but not ODE or SDE?
There is no very deep reason. In the post you linked to a list of very short tags was highlighted. I then went through the list and decided what to do, commenting:
I did something about all ...
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Are you sure you want to leave this page?
First of all: thanks a lot to everybody for notifying us about this issue. We have been able to reproduce and fix the issue. Please do let us know (in a comment to this answer) if you're still ...
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Dollars in the “Hot Network Questions” get mistakenly loaded by MathJax.
Wow, when I last looked at this, I completely missed the "how to exclude an element from processing" in MathJax's documentation.
The tex2jax configuration has an <...
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[proof] tag (again)
I believe that if there is a reason to blacklist tag proof, the same reasoning should also work for the plural - the tag proofs. Since this tag has been created recently, it is evidently not on the ...
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Proposal: make the "interesting" tab the default on Math.SE homepage
We've been doing some thinking and we realized since the site now gets about 630 questions a day, the active tab might not be very helpful.
As of today, we've given you the interesting tab as the ...
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Slightly more informative error messages when the title is too long
As of now (thanks to your request), there is a new feature released network-wide (including Stack Overflow for Teams) where users will be shown a character count starting when the Title hits 100 ...
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Is it possible to spoiler multi-line mathjax?
If you ever want to do such, I would recommend the alternative format:
>! \begin{align} a=b \\ b=c \\ c=d \end{align}
This allows multiple lines, as well as ...
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Organizing favorite posts in folders\categories
In October 2022, Stack Exchange completely overhauled the functionality of bookmarks:
Bookmarks have evolved into Saves
Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange - October 2022
The new functionality ...
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Strange link text in a possible duplicate
Sorry about that... turns out that the markdown parsing process for links in comments is slightly different than the one we run for posts. I have a fix ready for this issue, but I'd like to have it ...
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Warning when creating a new tag on meta
Not seeing any objections, so I enabled the new tag creation warning here on meta as well.
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Mathjax stops rendering after clicking "An edit has been made to this post"
This has been fixed.
I'm embarrassed to say this was originally my fault. I had refactored post reloading to fix a handful of small bugs in support of moderator tooling, and accidentally dropped the ...
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Red dot on reopen queue but no items available to review
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. This is now fixed.
What happened:
We show the red dot when the number of active items queue is over a specific number (can differ by queue and by site).
The ...
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Suggestion to mass-replace links to http://math.uga.edu/~pete
Let us collect in this community wiki answer the posts which might need manual editing after the bulk conversion is done.
Links which are dead both now and after the transformation
The links to the ...
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A feature requested for the purpose of avoiding unintentional newbie-biting
I've downvoted this feature request because the SE system has a limited resource for changing features, and I judge this would be ineffective in "avoiding unintentional newbie-biting."
When we close ...
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Should we add external searches in some help pages about search?
Per this request I've added the following paragraph at the help center article about search:
This article covers the basics on the built-in search. Please take a look at a community meta post on how ...
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MathJax rendering issue while looking at someone's profile
Thanks for the report!
As I mentioned in the comments, this was a side-effect of upgrading to MathJax 2.7.5. The core of the issue is described in detail over on GitHub.
Many thanks to Davide ...
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Should we divide [tag:dimension-theory] into 2 tags, one for topology, and one for algebra?
My own area of research is fractal geometry. In fractal geometry, there are various notions of dimension (Hausdorff, box, Minkowski, Assouad, packing, complex etc.). Very roughly speaking, the ...
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Can a question's colour or background be changed if I have visited it?
Visited links are now a lighter shade of blue than both the unvisited and hover colors. Thanks for your patience and for bringing this to our attention!
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