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Why can't I see my question on the front page 5 minutes after it was posted?
Here's the question: How to split tasks between CI Tool (like Jenkins) and a build script (Ant or Maven)?
I haven't seen it yet on the front page. Why is it that?
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Clarify the “No registration required” message
I think the "no registration required" message that every new visitor sees on the front page is a bit misleading.
… or isn't it?
Obviously, you have to register somehow to get started and I assume ...
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1answer
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Simple highlighting of unanswered questions (no upvoted or accepted answer) at the front page
At the moment, questions at the front page can be told apart as follows:
Questions with no answer (at SO: "0 answers"; red);
Questions with at least one answer, but no accepted one (at SO: "[number] ...
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1answer
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Meta front page rarely slightly out of order
Something's not right about this.
I've seen this three times today: a question that should be at the top of the page (due to being changed most recently) is still stuck in its previous position. I ...
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2answers
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Do questions have a second chance on the homepage? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?
I wonder if there is a kind of cycling mechanism about the way the questions show up on the home page...
If my ...
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1answer
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Can a link to the question page help be added to the FAQ? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What do the colors on Stack Overflow mean?
I am missing a link to a help page on the questions page on the symbolism used here.
This help page should answer questions ...
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0answers
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New site alert with too-long flavour text looks bad when cut off
I know it's probably intended, but it looks kind of awful to see this long description get truncated (even in the page source). Either shorten the description or don't chop it up.
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2answers
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SO main page strongly favors high-activity tags over lower-activity tags
The SO main page shows a curated selection of the current questions, seemingly based on your favorited/ignored tags. Assuming this is true...
Problem
The questions shown on the front page have a ...
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2answers
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If my question is lost in oblivion, what could I do to bring it back to the main page where people notice it [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?
If I ask a question which nobody answers for a couple of hours or more, then my question goes off the main page, ...
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0answers
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Really old questions popping up randomly [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What can cause my question to be bumped?
Has anyone noticed this? Some really old, inactive questions have been appearing on my front page. Eg:
Code Golf: Duplicate ...
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0answers
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Main page question information doesn't match question page
I just saw the question in screenshot 1 after clicking on the link in screenshot 2.
Note that the closure and vote count are mismatched. I did a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) of both pages before ...
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1answer
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Can we have some indication on the front page whether or not a question has comments?
Comments on a question are often a good indication of whether the question is well written (a badly written question usually gets a 'Please include some code/please expand your question' comment ...
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2answers
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Frontpage content algorithm
Quoting from the Privileges page:
Vote Down
When you vote down, you are moving that content "down" so it will be seen by fewer people.
Vote Up
When you vote up, you are moving that content ...
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0answers
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Customize Stack Exchange homepage?
I check Stack Exchange daily for hot questions, but lately I feel the frontpage has became very noisy. With 46 sites, there is a lot of questions I'm not interested in.
Some time ago, I remember it ...
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2answers
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Is frontpage questions learn user preferences?
Hi there,
Just realized that my SO frontpage is filled with android & other 'Favorite Tags'. I try to look it up from Chrome's incognito mode and it's quite different than when I'm logged in.
Is ...
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1answer
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Do pending edits get bumped to the front page?
If a low-rep user makes an edit which needs to be approved, does it get bumped to front-page? I hardly ever visit main page (am on unix.SE), so I wouldn't have noticed.
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1answer
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Question shows it was bumped by a user, but no activity is seen? [closed]
This question was apparently bumped by Justin Morgan. It shows this on the front page of SO: 1min ago Justin Morgan
However, looking at the question, I don't see anything Justin Morgan actually did. ...
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2answers
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Recent Badges list on the front page suggestion
The list often just gets filled up with "Yearling" badges which isn't overly exciting and it could perhaps be more useful if it was presented like the Recent Tags list which has the tag x # format.
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1answer
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Did the front page sort order change make life easier for evil posts?
In the past, we had a nice canned answer for MSO posts regarding junk questions and answers:
All new posts, retags and edits come with a free bump to the front page, so it's easy for people to see ...
3
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1answer
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May I have the original behavior of the SO homepage please?
With the new behavior of SO homepage - "interesting" and "hottest" tabs - I completely can't get what's going on and find this very inconvenient. When I refresh the page suddenly a whole ton of ...
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1answer
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Bounty sign doesn't appear in the new front page
Consider this question, which has been assigned a bounty of +500 for over 20 minutes, but the +500 sign never appears in the new home page.
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4answers
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Feedback on front page question order change
The order of questions on the front page has changed drastically today, as per the blog post: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/stack-overflow-homepage-changes/
I already have a couple of ...
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1answer
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Meta sites' front pages should not hide questions with very low scores
On Meta SO, downvoting merely means "disagree." This convention carried over to per-site metas. But questions with very low scores — e.g. this question on Meta Math SE with net score of -5 ...
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3answers
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Can we get the asker on the front page instead the most recent changer?
This may be wrong of me but when I'm scanning a list of questions looking for the best stuff, I'm more interested in who's asking than who made the last comment. Questions asked by high-rep users are ...
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0answers
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The sync time between the frontpage and the newest question list is different
Questions seem to appear on the front page about 1 or 2 minutes sooner than they appear on the newest question list.
This would not bother me at all if it was the other way around and I don't know ...
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2answers
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Would it be feasible to have Community only poke questions of active users?
I am no longer actually requesting this feature, but I guess leaving [feature-request] rather than [discussion] allows Jeff to eventually mark as [status-rejected], which might help when duplicates ...
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1answer
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Is SO becoming too popular? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Stackoverflow is too popular. How do I get new questions answered?
SO has become so popular that if you submit a question within about 20 minutes it's gone off the ...
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1answer
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Front page annoyance: is this behavior optimal?
(Using Firefox 3.5 under XP) When I load the front page of any of the trilogy sites and scroll down past N questions, if I want to see more questions, the option is to load the complete list, which ...
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1answer
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compact list as a front page
Would it be possible to have a more compact view of the question on the front page, as an option ? The gigantic vote number and views, could be made smaller. Focus only on the title and the author ...
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2answers
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Upvoting of a question should bump it to the front page
When I upvote a question I do so because I think it's a good question. Other people would benefit from seeing the question or maybe be able to add important answers. To increase exposure of upvoted ...
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1answer
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Redesign the default view - the sidebar takes way too much space!
On SO, in the default view (Recent Questions), I've got more than 2 screen heights of Interesting Tags and Ignored Tags. Followed by 2 screen heights of Recent Tags and Recent Badges.
The actual ...
