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Why does the Bonbon song question have so many downvotes?

The question has no interesting twists or requirements. All it is is a variant of Ninety Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall which has been golfed to death. If the numbers were in some kind of special p …
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Don't Post WIP?

I think that in most cases WIP is unnecessary. There's nothing that's going to taken so why reserve a place? The only reason I could think of that a WIP could be posted would be with a King of the Hi …
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How to take input in XSLT?

I'm thinking of starting answering questions in XSLT, but I don't know what the standard method of input would be? I'm thinking of an XML file like so: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> …
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How do we calculate the length of lambda?

Apparently anonymous functions are the norm, so you don't count the assignment The length of the lambda is the same as with a full program: the length of your function is the number of characters inc …
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

Better Sandbox The Sandbox should load smoothly, be easy to use, and should NOT show deleted answers.
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

TIO Integration Allowing users to test their code on the run would be infinitely helpful, since normally you'd have to wait until you had computer access. This would also make editing answers easier …
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4 votes

PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

Automatic Leaderboards This is not only much more convenient than a Stack Snippet but also will be on every code-golf post, not just the ones with the Stack Snippet.
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

Improve Answer Sorting There are two parts to this: Firstly, adding sort by byte count (for code golf) The default sort option should by changed for specific tags. For example, when the challenge i …
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

Stack Snippet Support This is probably impossible on a mobile device due to the requirement of JavaScript, HTML and CSS, but basically, it would be useful for when people post submissions in JS, to b …
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

Monospaced Font It would be very useful for the app to use a monospaced font when writing answers and questions. This will allow code breakdowns and ASCII art to be designed in-situ. Similarly, code …
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests

Use Custom Codepages for Byte Counts Like the graduation userscript, when finding the byte count of the submission, the app should use specific languages' custom codepages. This would be helpful fo …
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Unary, the destroyer of challenge ideas

Recently in the sandbox I've had two challenge ideas pooh-poohed because it would be easily won by Unary, or one of its derivatives. Now, I'm not saying exclude from the whole site because it can be …
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Should we change our name?

PCG Cup I don't think we need such a descriptive name and should go the way of Ask Different and Seasoned Advice, having fun with our name. PPCG is a fun place, so we have to reflect that in the way …
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PPCG-specific Mobile App: Feature Requests [closed]

See main post here This [question] is intended as community submission describing the target functionality. This will likely change over time, but it will allow devs to have a end goal with their …
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PPCG-specific Mobile App

See a list of feature requests here (On hold) Basically, I was wondering if anyone could develop a mobile app which would serve as a browser for PPCG. Maybe something along the lines of the pre-exist …
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