Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Is this another puzzle? 404 image in 404 page
I just stumbled upon a question that was deleted here on this meta. (Link to reproduce for users with >2k rep.)
All good, questions get deleted all the time, but I couldn't help noticing something ...
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404 image is missing on the meta site Page Not Found page [duplicate]
The 404 image is missing in the meta site's Page Not Found page.
The main sites' Page Not Found page has that image:
codegolf.stackexchange.com/404
But in the meta site it is missing:
codegolf....
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404 Not Found image is itself 404
It looks like the image that is supposed to show up in the 404 error page has...itself gone 404, and shows a broken image.
It looks like it's trying to load the image from https://cdn.sstatic.net/...
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We need to take an official stance on code trolling
Here's our to-do list for the project:
Close all existing code-trolling questions (or maybe re-tag those three I mentioned).
status-declined - if locked or deleted, closing might not matter, so we ...
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Should we have a "Welcome to PPCG" new user post?
I recently notices that Tex.SE has a Welcome to Tex.SX! meta post. In it, it describes what the site is and how to use it. It also includes information on the scope. I think this would be a good ...
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Change the nominations process for Best Of 2023
As discussed in chat, Best Of 2022 has had a serious lack of nominations, with currently 4 of the 16 categories still uncontested.
So that this dosen't happen next year, I'd like to propose a change ...
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Stack Snippets messing with JS?
I've noticed that my Red vs. Blue Sandbox controller snippet here has stopped working (at least in Chrome).
This is incredibly strange because the JSFiddle that is exactly identical is working fine. ...
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Can we raise the privilege levels?
PPCG has graduated. Some features for graduated sites come immediately after graduating. However, other features are held off for an indefinite amount of time:
The site gets a custom theme, and
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Word wrapping is broken on the election page
Some, but not all, of the paragraphs on the election page have broken word wrapping. Here's a screenshot of what I see for lyxal's answers to questions 5 and 6:
The question 5 paragraph is wrapping a ...
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Leaderboard not working correctly
The snippet used in many questions to generate a leaderboard is not displaying correctly for me, and some links are not working. I am using Firefox 59.0.2 (64-bit) on macOS 10.13.2 (High Sierra).
The ...
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Fix the sandbox link in our info box
Due to changes in sorting the sandbox link in our info box no longer works as intended. It should sort by active, but it doesn't.
The existing link is:
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We should reverse [reverse-engineering]
reverse-engineering has only two questions:
Reverse Engineer Polling Statistics
A small puzzle. Why does this code work the way it does?
The second one is closed as off-topic.
The first one isn't ...
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Link fails to render properly when rejecting an accepted edit
I think a screenshot best conveys the bug:
As you can see, the link HTML in the drop down does not properly render:
This edit was already approved - please visit <a href="/questions/246460/...
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Badge progress circle misalinged
The double circle is partly outside the box. Is this a bug? I am using Edge, Windows 10.
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What should we do with ast-golf?
The ast-golf tag is a winning criterion where the program with the least AST nodes wins. This seems like a subset of atomic-code-golf, where the program with the least operations by some definition ...
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Should we get rid of [new-years]?
The new-years tag's description is:
A new year's puzzle is any puzzle that is posted around the first day of any year that has to do with that specific year or calendars in some way.
This isn't ...
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New tag proposal: decision-problem
Inspired by a question in chat from a new user, I thought it would be a good idea to have a tag for challenges where the output is a truthy value if the input meets certain criteria, and falsey ...
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Tag proposal: [self-scoring]
I'd like to propose self-scoring or a similar tag, but I'd like to get some feedback on whether this is useful and how the tag might work.
First the proposal:
self-scoring is a scoring criterion ...
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Should we make a 2048 tag?
Currently, we have at least 12 questions relating to the game 2048. I think it would be worth creating a 2048 tag, as there are a non-insignificant number of these questions now. We have tags for ...
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best-of tag not showing the "Cast your vote for" posts
Navigate to the best-of tag and you'll see the following:
This doesn't show any of the "Cast your vote for Best of 20XX" posts, such as this one (which should be at the top, when sorting by ...
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Can we change [array-manipulation] to [array]?
Currently, we have some tags which can be used to indicate what sorts of data answers will work with: number, string, array-manipulation, date, and so on. One of those sticks out from the rest: array-...
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Should Nominations for Language of the Month be community wiki?
Should the Nominations for Language of the Month post be converted to a community wiki? What are the pros and cons of doing so?
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Tags that should have references to standard loopholes, I/O standards, etc., do not
Looking at the various winning criteria tags in The Tag Categorization Project, a lot of them should have links to helpful resources such as the standard loopholes and I/O standards in their wikis, ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
Today, Stack Exchange changed the way answers are sorted on Stack Overflow, meaning that accepting an answer no longer pins it to the top (regardless of sorting method). It still has the green ...
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"Featured on meta" has gone crazy
The "Featured on meta" sidebar currently shows three posts: two of which are actually featured, and the third of which (Cast your vote for “Best of PPCG 2018”!) ceased to be featured 40 days ago. That ...
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Footer text is hard to read on meta
The styling of the footer on codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com is very low contrast and the text is hard to read, especially the list subtitles. I have selected some of the text "NETWORK", ...
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BMG is slowly dying
Let me put it simply: BMG, which was a good idea at first, is dying, to the point that we're not scheduling new ones, we're not hearing about it, we forgot that there was meant to be one on Tuesday, ...
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Chat Event: Learn-a-lang
Advertisement
Been pushing off learning that one lang for too long? Maybe it doesn't qualify for LotM status? Then [name pending] is for you!
This is perfect for languages which are too popular for ...
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Let's think of a creative name for our chatroom
I'm hoping we're nearing the end of beta soon, but even if we aren't, our chatroom name is so bland. "Code Golf." Look at all the creative names others have thought up:
"Root Access" for Super User
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New First-Time Asker Dialog
This revision has been submitted to the devs to push the change, so unless there are any critical issues, this is the final version and I will not be modifying it anymore.
(I have cut down the post ...
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Tag Proposal: [asymmetric]
I've cooked up a few king-of-the-hill challenges, mostly in the sandbox, and a few of them are asymmetric in nature.
They're not really cops-and-robbers because it's not really about cracking a code, ...
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Create the [error] tag
We already asked this question on a tag for misbehaviors, but the tag misbehaviors would only apply to popularity contests where the misbehavior wasn't easily seen (see: underhanded). However, there ...
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Do we want new challenges auto posted in chat?
Our chatroom The Nineteenth Byte currently has 3 message feeds. For example, when there is a new meta post, it is automatically posted in chat.
Do we want to have new questions from the main page be ...
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Can the “How to Answer” pop-up disregard the association bonus?
We now have a custom “How to Answer” pop-up (yay!). However, this pop-up isn't shown to users who come here with the association bonus from other SE sites. In general, this behaviour makes sense: the ...
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Should new challenges on Codidact be posted into The Nineteenth Byte?
Codidact is a related network of sites to Stack Exchange, created in the aftermath of behaviour by Stack Exchange in late 2019, in an effort to create a better Q&A network. One of the sites in ...
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Odd rectangle under reputation in meta profile
There is an odd grey rectangle under the reputation on meta profile page. And it almost overlaps with label about top percentage just bellow it:
If I open profile page on the main site, I see nothing ...
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Should we have even even more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte?
4 years ago, we voted on and appointed additional room owners for The Nineteenth Byte. That was the most recent time TNB has had new room owners. Currently, only 2 of the room owners are able to be ...
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Tour page summary - we're not a Q&A site
Here's what our Tour page says right now:
Code Golf Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for programming puzzle enthusiasts and code golfers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack ...
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Should we change the question on the Tour page?
The Tour is a page shown to new users, intended as a quick introduction to the site. As part of this, there's an example question shown to the user:
The current question, Triangle Area Side Side Side,...
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Meta privileges help page inconsistency
There appears to be an inconsistency on our Meta privileges page in the Help Center!
The unflappable dev Chris Jester-Young and our benevolent overlords in the SE Community Team have lowered PPCG's ...
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Add to Sandbox or How to Ask
Users are constantly asking for clarification of programming puzzles. In an attempt to help new users create good challenges, I asked this question on Meta PPCG: Things to consider when creating a ...
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Relax the requirements for "crazy formatting" on the /tour example question
On Programming Puzzles and Code Golf, the answers to most of our questions look like this:
Some language, 1234 characters
asdfunicorn+1(&&%^#$)/-9x9[{}]
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Line break formats and character numbers [duplicate]
I've recently saw someone, who says that their code is 350 characters long.
Problem
It can vary depending on platform.
Code length compared across various platforms
Windows: 371 characters
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Making the FAQ more precise.
After asking this question, I got a downvote promptly. A user told me in the comments, that this page is for programming challenges and not for questions about how to be better in such challenges. I ...
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auto count the number of chars in the code section
will there be for each answer an auto calculation for the "code" section that was marked up by the user
like this is a marked up code section
and write here ...
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Moderation: a call to action
Let me just say this bluntly: we need to do more moderation.
Some facts:
For a while, I was the only user with any active delete votes. (I posted a message in chat to rectify this, which helped a ...
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Notification for new question with a specified tag?
I would like to be notified when a question is posted with a particular tag. I can't see any way of configuring this within the PPCG site. I am sure the SE people would not like lots of bots ...
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Can we have a separate tag for combinatory logic?
Background information: Combinatory logic on Wikipedia
Basically it is a model of computation closely related to lambda calculus, but using a fixed set of combinators instead of lambda abstraction. ...
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Add a sand-box link on the ask question page
Is it possible to add a link to the ask question page suggesting users to first test in the current sandbox? This will probably help with visibility because most new users don't know that a sandbox ...
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Can we have a Hello, World! feed? [duplicate]
Recently I suggested having a feed in The Nineteenth Byte for new answers to the Hello, World! challenge. It received some support (as you can tell from the stars), but it was suggested that it be ...
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