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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Increase reputation awarded for questions
It has come to my attention that the amount of reputation awarded for questions can be adjusted on a per-site basis. For example, Stack Apps awards +10 reputation for question upvotes. As you probably ...
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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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Election page is broken
I just got a notification telling me to vote in the election.
When following the link however, I'm redirected to here (an error page). Presumably, this is supposed to be the election page.
It seems ...
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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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Community is being Overprotective of the Sandbox
Recently @Community♦︎ has been constantly protecting our beloved Sandbox.
Our rep threshold for meta has been decreased specifically to grant new users access to the Sandbox so they can post their ...
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Should we increase our post character limit to allow substantial stack snippets?
Calvin's Hobbies posted on Mother Meta about increasing the character limit for posts across the Stack Exchange network. This answer shows that it is possible to increase the limit from the standard ...
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Please raise or remove CW limits on Code Golf SE site
Please kindly raise or remove CW limits on Code Golf SE site
Raise or Remove CW Conversion because of too many edits
Raise or Remove CW Conversion because of too many answers
Please allow current ...
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Tag Proposal: [Interactive]
I'm proposing a new tag named interactive for challenges that go beyond simple stdin/stdout processing. This would be challenges that require the program to respond to user input in some fashion, ...
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Should we remove the reputation requirement for answering on meta?
I've been made aware that it's possible to lower the reputation threshold required to ask or answer questions on a per-site meta.
A very common complaint about the sandbox is that new users, who are ...
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Let's customise the "How to Answer" pop-up
It was recently suggested in a comment to point at our standard loopholes (and potentially other implicit community rules) next to the Answer text area (similar to the How to ask? sidebar when writing ...
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Can we have MathJax back?
It's been a couple years since PPCG voted against MathJax. Since then, the vote ratio has changed significantly, and most seem to be in favor of MathJax. However, it is status-completed and no change ...
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Replacement moderator proposal
As some of you know, I've joined Stack Exchange today as a core developer. As such, I'll be stepping down as a moderator. It's been a fun four years, and I'll miss this community a lot.
In exiting my ...
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Stop converting duplicate answers to comments
In case you didn't know, whenever you post the exact same answer as was already posted, it gets converted to a comment.
I had no idea before I posted a crack on a cops-and-robbers post that someone ...
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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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Users with 1 rep aren't able to post answers on Meta
Despite our help page claiming you only need 1 reputation to participate in Meta, multiple users have reported being unable to post answers on Meta, despite being supposed to be (screenshot of a ...
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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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When is Programming Puzzles & Code Golf getting community ads?
Over 3 months ago, on February 23, 2016, it was announced that this SE site was graduating.
That post said that
You will soon be able to select your own community ads. Give me a moment to set ...
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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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An info box to point new users to The Sandbox
So along with site graduation, one new option we have is an info box on the sidebar. For example, you can see what these look like on Law or Judaism Stack Exchange (directly above the "featured on ...
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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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Inline code inside a spoiler block is difficult to read
It is very difficult to read inline code when it is located inside of a spoiler block:
Readable (standard quote):
ActionScript already contains a Math.pow() ...
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Do we really want LaTeX/MathJax (right now)?
Update: The decision has been made to deactivate MathJax on the site. This does not reflect the current votes, as these changed significantly after the decision was made.
We've had MathJax support ...
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General programming questions close message is disingenuous
There have been multiple times now that I've wanted to close a question as off-topic, but refrained from doing so due to the message associated with it:
General programming questions are off-topic ...
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Can we revive The Programming Language Quiz?
status-completed
The Programming Language Quiz was a Cops and Robbers challenge posted 2 years ago, where users were challenged to create obfuscated Hello, World! programs, and others tried to ...
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Can we have MathJax back (part II)?
More than a month ago, we've reached a consensus: We want MathJax back. The reasons why it was turned off in 2015 no longer seem to apply, and details about why MathJax is needed on this site are ...
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Our favicon is ugly and asymmetric. Let's fix it! [duplicate]
The favicon for this site has ugly and asymmetric corners:
Compared to the corresponding icons for other beta SE sites, which only have one pixel cut off from each corner, I find the upper corners ...
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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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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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Should we have additional room owners?
Currently our main chatroom, The Nineteenth Byte, has only the 4 PPCG moderators as room owners. Since the chatiquette is not applicable to other Stack Exchange sites, using chat flags for breaches of ...
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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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Do we want Stack Snippets?
A new feature called Stack Snippets was introduced that allows users to embed runnable code snippets in their posts. According to the blog post:
If you feel that a particular site should have Stack ...
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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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LaTeX/MathJax support would be nice?
Several StackExchange sites have support for mathematical formulae using MathJax (LaTeX syntax).
Many Code-Golf challenges are mathematical in nature. Equations come up very often in discussions.
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Revisiting LaTeX
A while back, people asked about whether to include LaTeX formatting on PCG.SE. The answer was generally no, because people believed that the filesize was too big and had too much of an effect on ...
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Should the Info Box Link to the Active Sorted Sandbox?
The link to the sandbox in the info box is nice, but I was wondering if it might be better to link to change the target of the link from
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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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Can we remove the semicolon-# tag?
semicolon-# is a tag for challenges related to the language ;#. I suggest we remove this tag, since it is very localized and we've pretty much exhausted all non-...
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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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Enable default syntax highlighting
Since most questions on this site won't be language specific, but virtually all answers will contain code, the tag-based syntax-highlighting approach recently adopted by SO won't work for this site. ...
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Hts? (Winter Bash 2014, PPCG edition)
apologizes for terrible pun in title
I recently received an email from a Community Manager from Stack Exchange:
Winter Bash 2014 will again be available to all sites that choose to participate. We’...
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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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Should we repost the Kolakoski challenge?
We've got a fairly old challenge about the Kolakoski sequence. Unfortunately, the challenge is fairly restrictive in its I/O requirements: in particular, input has to be taken via command-line ...
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Should we distinguish between types of fastest-code challenges?
It seems like many users who want to do a fastest-code challenge don't really think about it how they actually measure "fastness". And then usually a short discussion develops in the comments laying ...
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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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Is the name of the community correct?
The title of this question really sounds very silly, but lets see all of those questions:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/22665/how-many-valid-routes
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/...
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How could the search bar's placeholder text be improved?
One of the more popular suggestions from We're not a Q&A site. But what should be done about it? was to change the search bar's placeholder text. We've been asked to flesh this out in a ...
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Introducing OldSandboxPosts
My name is OldSandboxPosts and I am a chatbot written by caird coinheringaahing and hosted by Redwolf Programs. My source code can be found here. Every day, at 1:00am UTC time, I log onto Stack ...
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New Tag Proposal: Self-Referential
There's a lot of questions that result in code that refers to itself. Typically these questions get assigned the quine tag, though it's not quite applicable in some cases.
I propose a new tag self-...
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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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