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Is UX StackExchange fading away?
I saw this post on HackerNewsletter asking about the once revered StackOverflow (SO) now losing a lot of it's shine:
Stack Overflow has been a cornerstone of developer communities for years, but ...
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Marking Acceptance of answers in UX Stack exchange site
I am using UX Stack exchange from last 4 years now and I see there are so many questions with no answer accepted marked. Is it because of the way the mark button is positioned and is designed(no ...
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Is any action taken against users who consistently repeat AI answers?
It's disheartening to see how while those of us who strive to keep the site active by crafting thoughtful answers, a user keeps getting upvotes based on copy/paste from AI. Seeing this question, I ...
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How could we encourage the use of screenshots/ screen recordings in ux.stackexchange.com?
Discussions in ux.stackexchange.com, naturally, deal with issues about visual representation and when they come without any screenshots/ screen recordings, this automatically leads to poor quality.
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Do questions that are no longer true still add value?
This older post came back into circulation today - it asks why Google still uses paging instead of infinite loading.
When a question is based on a fundamentally outdated premise, should it be closed? ...
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Community consensus on enabling a banner to warn about policy on AI-generated content?
An experiment was conducted recently to test a banner highlighting the “AI-generated content” policy on Stack Overflow. The placement of the banner showed no significant impact on answer rates; ...
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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 ...
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Is asking about "the best and most beautiful design for dashboard large buttons" on topic?
Is asking about "the best and most beautiful design for dashboard large buttons for android" on topic?
Or asking about up to date and common design for dashboard UI for android?
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Should we be raising the bar on the type and/or quality of questions and answers as a way of filtering out AI assisted or generated content?
There has been a lot of debate in the moderators circles around how to address or deal with AI assisted or generated content. The proliferation and uptake of AI tools has the potential benefit of ...
Michael LaiMod
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Can we get rid of old posts with no answers?
The community bot consistently brings up questions without any answers or activity, which becomes tiresome, renders the site irrelevant, and conceals new questions. Shouldn't we automatically close ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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How did this spam question get into HNQ?
This thread seems to be spam — the answer appears to be given by another account of OP ("Ashwin" vs "ash ux win") within 1.5 minutes of asking and the answerer promotes a resource ...
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Making target when writing a question a mandatory selection?
I've seen questions where it wasn't clear at first sight (and also not at second or third), if at all, what they were about. So, wouldn't it be advantageous if there were a list of "main" ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Not satisfied with original formulation of my question and the answers I received — what steps can I take?
I have a question about my UX Stack Exchange post: Why do the Western European countries use the AZERTY keyboard? What is the historical origin of this layout?
I am not happy with the current ...
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Is there a reason for the Community Bot to poke years-old questions?
While browsing top questions on ux.SO home page (under Active tab), I was surprised to find some pretty old questions, from 2018, 2019 or so, apparently poked by the Community Bot:
Is there a use case ...
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No feedback after submitting closed question for review
My question was closed 4 days ago for being off-topic
Programming Exercises UX
I made the necessary changes in order to comply with the guidelines, following the feedback I was given. I haven't heard ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Why does clicking the "StackExchange" logo in the top-left corner of this very page not directly take you to stackexchange.com?
Rather than taking you directly to the main page, it opens a popup containing another button that you need to click.
Why in the name of everything holy is this website designed this way?
Please tell ...
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Where can I find the Balsamiq Editor Control?
Was the integration with Balsamiq retired at some point? I still find articles saying that you can easily add mockups on ux.sx using a built-in icon, but I don't see the controls anywhere in the ...
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How can I view top scored questions ever asked?
There is https://ux.stackexchange.com/?tab=month - but it covers just latest month.
Is it possible to see top questions ever asked? I just found this site and I think that I can learn something about ...
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Share link URLs are not linking directly to answers
Each answer has a "share" link under it, so that a user might give a URL to someone as a means of directing them directly to that answer within the page. URL Example:
https://ux....
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Review Queue badge when there's something new to review
In the main nav, the Inbox icon tells us with a red badge when a user has responded. The Trophy icon turns green when we have a new badge (or shows a green badge when we've received points.)
Was the ...
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Is this search algorithm request appropriate for this site?
I want to ask a question to find an algorithm. This specific question feels like a UX question to me, but I can also see the counter argument to that. Is this the correct site to ask for a search ...
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Merge and synonymize [fab] into [floating-action-button]
fab has 3 questions and a usage description.
floating-action-button has 13 questions, and is much more descriptive ('fab' is not an acronym I was familiar with before seeing this tag, but maybe others'...
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Several proposed tag synonym suggestions still pending
wireframing → wireframe (Meta discussion) (Completed)
prototyping → prototype (Meta discussion) (Completed)
manditory-fields → required-fields (Meta discussion) (manditory-fields currently has no ...
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Merge and synonymize [mandatory-fields] into [required-fields]
mandatory-fields
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2 asked this year
required-fields
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is this a new feature?
I just saw this, which I never saw before, so not sure if a glitch or some kind of upcoming feature, kind of automatic detection of low quality posts. Does anyone know?
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Maybe need a HTML5 mockup tool now [duplicate]
Flash is dead on Chrome, cannot create a mockup on site now.
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UI Wireframe editor requires Flash, which is dead [duplicate]
There is already a discussion question about this:
What are the plans to support wireframes after flash player is no longer available?
but since Flash is end-of-life and no major browser supports ...
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Process for dealing with bounties that don't have an answer associated with it
One of the reasons for starting bounties is to get the community to provide answers (to questions that don't have enough attention or can be answered if given some incentive), but at times even after ...
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We've missed the 10 year anniversary (understandable since well, COVID) but there's still things we can do?
According to the post on Stack Moderators about celebrating the 10th anniversary of the community, the way to determine the age of the site is:
How to determine the age of a site? We agreed to ...
Michael LaiMod
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New chat rooms are open - how to encourage more people to participate in conversations?
It took a little bit of time but I finally managed to make my way to the new chatrooms that have been made available to the StackExchange community.
Unfortunately there were not many chatrooms open, ...
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Please consider reopening 'Tools for user stories' question
The question Is there a tool for managing user stories? may be a little clumsily worded, but it's in essence a really important question to the UX community, particularly beginners.
I agree it could ...
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Helping to clear the list of unanswered questions
One of the metrics of Q&A sites is the number of unanswered questions and this can also be further broken down into the amount of time a question remains unanswered for.
As a moderator this is of ...
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Proposal for the convention or structure for one type of question on UXSE and feedback
Just wondering if this is a convention or feature of interest to develop in UXSE.
I have come across a recent question where the OP adopted a convention/method of structuring a question that seems to ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Duplicated Questions
I've been seeing a lot of questions marked as duplicated. Now, I understand there's a rationale about questions being asked again and again.
But there are many cases where one of the following things ...
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Merge [android-ux] into [android]
We have two tags about Android: android (855 questions) and android-ux (58 questions). I can't see any difference in the questions using these tags, so I propose that they be merged, keeping android ...
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Can I link to my own app to give better context of what my problem is?
I've just opened this post: Is it worthwhile to offer a "recover your status" functionality for a paid version in phone app?
I think maybe people would find it easier it they can check what ...
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Why does UX StackExchange have both "Home" and "Questions" tabs?
Does UX StackExchange really need both "Home" and "Questions" tabs in its left nav? "Home" seems to be the Questions page with the "Hot" filter applied; it's ...
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Updating UXSE badges to be more accessible
I noticed that this question has been asked quite some time ago, and should be considered a feature request: What can we do to make UX Stack Exchange badges accessible?
There were some good options ...
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Synonomize [user-engagement] and [engagement]
engagement has 9 questions (1 asked this year), and no wiki.
user-engagement has 41 questions (2 asked this year), with a wiki.
I suggest we merge engagement into user-engagement and make the former a ...
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Merge or synonymise [ai] and [artificial-intelligence]
The site currently has two tags for questions related to artificial intelligence:
ai with two questions at the time of writing, and
artificial-intelligence with nine questions at the time of writing.
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Why was this user awarded my bounty, when all 3 answers had the same number of upvotes?
I posted a bounty question: Should mobile apps flip upside down?
There was a three way tie in upvotes: +2, +2, +2.
It selected one user to award the bounty. Why was it awarded to that user, when ...
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Why doesn't my bounty show up by default?
I have posted a bounty on a question. It does not show up:
But if I click on the "complete list" link, it adds it to the list. It is not like we are overrun with bounty questions, so why ...
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What would the best (top) tag hierarchy be?
I wanted to share some work I have done to look at the community's tag set and estimate a hierarchy:
https://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/blog/2020/06/19/a-ux-hierarchy-from-folksonomy/
A ...
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Why was I not notified of this answer?
Here is an answer to my question.
I did not get a notification in my inbox for it.
Why?
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Merge [filter] into [filtering]
These tags are unnecessarily separate, being related to the same topic.
Question counts:
filter → 143 questions, of which 46% are also tagged with filtering
filtering → 429 questions, of ...
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Are there any plans to create a UX Designer survey like the StackOverflow Developer survey?
I have been looking at the StackOverflow Developer survey results for years and hoping that something like that is in the pipeworks for UXSE as well. With such a large community and active users, it ...
Michael LaiMod
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