Questions tagged [sandbox]
A sandbox is a place where you can post proposed challenges for others to review.
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Move the sandbox to main
A little over a year ago, we had a discussion on meta about whether the sandbox should be migrated to the main site. The answer suggesting to do so was at +8/-4, but there were no counterarguments in ...
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Should the Sandbox be a featured meta post?
It always was, and I'm assuming it has just dropped off, so this is just to draw attention to that...
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A new javascript KOTH challenge, Fastest gun of the west! [duplicate]
Sometime ago i wanted to make a KOTH challenge, but i wanted it to be more interactive and easier to test, i didnt really come up with anything good. But then i saw this awesome thing Red vs. Blue - ...
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Testing a new challenge v1
I will use this to test a modified version of Red vs. Blue - Pixel Team Battlebots code that automaticaly gets data via javascript.
Please ignore it for now.
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Can we remove the old sandbox links?
At some point we decided to just have one global Sandbox. I think this is fine, I'm just concerned about all the links to old sandboxes that may confuse users, new and old alike.
When I'm not logged ...
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Getting rid of the sandbox directory
I would like to propose to remove the answer directory from the Sandbox. It seems that:
It's never up to date.
It takes a lot of unnecessary vertical space.
I have no indication that anyone is ...
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Why isn't the Sandbox Community Wiki?
We all know and love the Sandbox. It's one of our best features. But in the body of the Sandbox, I noticed this:
This is a community-maintained list of the most active Sandbox submissions, sorted ...
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Can I make a Sandbox meta post instead of using the normal Sandbox?
My next challenge will rely heavily on Stack Snippets and http://api.stackexchange.com/ to gather data from the answers (similar to this or this).
I want to Sandbox it to iron out any kinks, but none ...
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Is The Sandbox Effective?
This is a poll to find out the general concensus on the effectiveness of our Sandbox for Proposed Challenges.
To participate, up-vote exactly one of the answers below. There are only "Yes" and "No" ...
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We Have a Messy Sandbox - Follow Up
In We Have a Messy Sandbox the consensus was that the best way to clean our Sandbox is to delete posted challenges but keep abandoned ones.
The consensus also seemed to be that:
These deleted posts ...
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We Have a Messy Sandbox
It may be just me, but it seems kind of bothersome that we have 500-odd undeleted answers in the Sandbox. Many of them have already been posted for real but not edited to reflect that. More (I think ...
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Profile Picture for Sandbox User
The sandbox is now owned by a dummy account, Sandbox. At the moment it has a default profile picture.
Can we create/find a profile picture for it that illustrates that:
the user is a dummy account
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How do I get enough people to notice my sandbox post?
In the previous sandboxes, it was suggested that if you had 3 upvotes on your sandbox submission, it was ready to go.
I have written a few sandbox posts recently. Of these, all have been commented on ...
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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
This "sandbox" is a place where Code Golf users can get feedback on prospective challenges they wish to post to main. This is useful because writing a clear and fully specified challenge on ...
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Make sandbox classified?
I just saw the merged sandbox, and woah...
I notice that in the OP post that the active challenge is classified into 3.
King Of The Hill
Codegolf
Others
Will it be wise if we make 3 sandbox? One ...
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Can we make use of abandoned sandbox posts?
Over the years a lot of challenges have accumulated in the sandbox(es) which never made it to being posted on main. Some of these were probably abandoned because they were duplicates or had unfixable ...
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Remove numbering from sandbox title?
It seems (from this meta thread) that we are no longer intending to retire sandboxes, and I now approve of this plan. Because the answers can be sorted by activity, old posts will not clutter the ...
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How should sandbox retirement be handled (if at all)?
In a similar vein to my previous meta post, we're going to have to deal with having the sandbox on meta. And currently, the sandbox situation is a bit... messy. Here's a simple plan (or, at least, ...
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How does the Sandbox work? How do I use it?
Link to sandbox
I've noticed some people here talking about a "proposed question sandbox."
Where is the sandbox?
Why should I use the sandbox?
How does the sandbox work?
What should we do with ...
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A simple userscript for collapsing sandbox answers
Description
As it appears the sandbox on meta is here to stay, I've written a very simple userscript that will allow you to collapse sandbox answers to reduce clutter. (This may be able to be ...
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Could the body of the Sandbox question serve as a directory to all of the answers?
I feel like one of the main difficulties of having a massive sandbox is the difficulty of seeing all of the posts in the sandbox. There are 63 answers in the XIV sandbox and 66 in the XII sandbox, ...
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RFC: License for a prospective sandbox viewer
TL;DR
I'm trying to figure out what license is best to use with a proposed CodeGolf.SE sandbox viewer. Please read the whole question/proposal before answering.
Main Question
What would be the best ...
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Should I delete my sandbox answers after posting the challenge? [duplicate]
After posting a question that had gone through sandbox, people typically remove the body of their sandbox submission and replace it with a link to the final challenge. This makes sense to help reduce ...
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Sandbox good for its own subdomain?
Edit 2: See Grace Note's answer.
Edit: Answers may be allowed, so that question-specific sandboxes would be actually on topic, such as attempted for Stack Exchange Quine. It could also enable people ...
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Is a puzzle regarding permutations on topic?
I was unsure if this type of question was on topic here so I decided to post on meta first instead of just trying it "in the wild".
A 52 card deck is shuffled and cut in half. The top half is set ...
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Revamp the sandbox system?
The Proposed Question Sandboxes aren't really working.
As per this question, we should move them to the main site.
This is just a suggestion for how we might go about this.
Create a special tag, ...
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The problem with sandboxes, and a proposed solution
The Problem
The sandbox will be a problem when we graduate (hopefully soon!) As it is already, the people who look through the sandbox regularly are very little in number. What happens when we ...
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How can new users use the Sandbox? [duplicate]
Related: How are new users supposed to participate on this site?
In most StackExchange sites, new users are encouraged to ask questions. On this site, we encourage running questions through the ...
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