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Should the sandbox be moved to the main site?

If moving to the main site, and only allowing one sandbox, then my concern is that there will be simply too many answers there. And even after filtering by activity it would just look like a huge mess …
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Where to post a long explanation / how-to

You should keep it there, but make it code, so it will have it's own scroll bar (except on mobile). I wouldn't prefer external resources, as they can be down / lost / deleted, making the explanation u …
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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

You should log out code-golf In the programming language of your choice, log off the currently logged in user. Rules and clarifications: After running the program the user should be taken to the …
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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Linear Chemistry Input is a string representing a skeletal formula of a molecule, in a format similar to O=C-O-H. However as a lot of formulas contain carbon and hydrogen atoms, it is customary to sk …
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Installation and testing instructions for specific programming languages

Whitespace While Whitespace is available on ideone, it's official version is not that easy to install, as it's source only, and binaries that are working on recent systems are not readily available. …
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An idea for a new genre of challenges: [code-purchasing]

The main idea is good, but it would only work in a language-specific way, as someone will definitely find a language, that uses differnet characters to represent the concepts. So instead of this, why …
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Installation and testing instructions for specific programming languages

Most of the answers on this site are made using programming languages, that are well known, and easily installable by most of the people. They have well known installers (or are already included) in a …
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Untestable languages

I think when someone posts in a language which is hard to set up, or test, then I think it is appropriate to downvote the answer if it doesn't describe (or link to a page with) a proper introduction o …
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How can new users use the Sandbox?

While on other SE sites it is usual that someone comes here with a question first (and is completely okay), I think at codegolf it's better if someone actually answers a few questions first before giv …
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How should we score compiler/interpreter build-time options?

the community is good enough to downvote answers like this, while in no way limiting actual creative use for language features that are there, but just not widely used (like the one that started this discussion
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