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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

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Community Promotion Ads — 2019

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What should this site be called now that it's getting a design?

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A subtitle for our site name

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Return Arbitrary integer within a range [closed]

discussion code-golf

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Fix this smallest element function [closed]

discussion code-golf

asked May 12 at 1:37 Tlink 6

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Digital clock - Code Golf [closed]

discussion code-golf

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Who wins code golf if there is a tie?

discussion code-golf

answered May 10 at 7:48 Kevin Cruijssen 44.7k

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Is there support to approach 3rd parties to build a performance tool?

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The PPCG Site design is on its way - help us make it awesome!

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Is The Sandbox Effective?

discussion sandbox

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In bash, can I use non-coreutil programs

discussion policy faq-proposed

modified May 3 at 10:27 Kevin Cruijssen 44.7k

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List of bounties with no deadline

discussion bounty

modified Apr 30 at 14:21 Adám 27.7k

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Introducing the New PPCG Leaderboard Widget!

discussion scoring stack-snippets leaderboard

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Things to avoid when writing challenges

discussion faq policy challenge-quality defaults

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Not halt to prevent display from disappearing

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New PPCG Leaderboard Widget - Update 1.1 [duplicate]

discussion scoring stack-snippets leaderboard

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Which 'repeated substring' challenge should be closed?

discussion duplicates

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How do we score colors in Desmos?

discussion voting

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How can I encourage voting for non-golf languages?

discussion voting

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Are non-uniform random distributions allowed?

discussion random

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How to count bytes FAQ

discussion faq code-golf answers scoring

modified Apr 11 at 20:16 Kevin Cruijssen 44.7k

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Challenge (Solve subset sum quickly if P = NP) incorrectly closed as duplicate [duplicate]

discussion close-reasons

answered Apr 7 at 19:35 Mego♦ 26k

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How could the search bar's placeholder text be improved?

discussion feature-request status-completed search

modified Apr 6 at 17:05 Dennis♦ 190k

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Should I accept an answer? [duplicate]

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Where timing between outputs matters, does the solution need to account for buffering?

discussion code-golf output

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Can I see a list of removed questions?

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Loopholes that are forbidden by default

discussion faq policy answers defaults

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Do different ImageMagick tools count as their own languages?

discussion code-golf

answered Mar 26 at 20:30 trichoplax 7,566

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FAQ/code-challenge don't seem to match actual code challenge questions

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Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods

discussion faq policy code-golf defaults

modified Mar 18 at 22:39 SuperJedi224 9,997

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If there is “a winner for every language” in a code golf challenge, does competitiveness matter?

discussion rules new-users noncompeting

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“Voidhawk's well-explained answer was the first one here in APL”?

discussion bounty

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Can we pass properties of the input as parameters? [duplicate]

discussion code-golf

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Scratch 2.0 is no longer considered a “free” language. Does this retroactively make cops-and-robbers cop answers in Scratch 2.0 non-competitive?

discussion policy answers cops-and-robbers

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Can I repost a challenge with different rules? [duplicate]

discussion code-golf

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Non-standard command line calls

discussion policy

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Are esolang design questions on topic?

discussion languages

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Can deleted answers be down-voted?

support down-votes

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Existance of known score but unknown exact code

discussion answers

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Is a regex answer valid if it gives the reciprocal of the required output? [duplicate]

discussion answers output

answered Feb 25 at 20:26 trichoplax 7,566

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Tags that should have references to standard loopholes, I/O standards, etc., do not

feature-request defaults tag-wikis hyperlinks

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Can we link canonical meta posts (e.g “what is a quine”, standard loopholes) more actively on the site?

feature-request

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What is the community stance on posting a codegolf question just to answer it yourself?

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Should we start “reviving” older challenges?

discussion site-health

answered Feb 8 at 12:42 Kevin Cruijssen 44.7k

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Best of PPCG 2018 — Call for Categories [duplicate]

discussion best-of

modified Feb 7 at 16:54 DJMcMayhem♦ 40.7k

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Should “A Multipurpose Quine” be reopened?

discussion specific-question closed-questions reopening

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