Community generated blogs tied at the hip to their relevant Stack Exchange sites
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Using the Stack engine for the blog – a long-term idea for maintaining a healthy blogging culture
What's the current status?
Let's say this first: The Super User blog is a great idea, and we've had enormous success with it. We've had a lot of diverse contributions, inspired by our Question of the ...
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Stack Exchange Blogs Compromised and Passwords Reset
Some of our WordPress instances were exploited yesterday at 11 AM UTC. We noticed that the compromise had taken place today and took the blogs offline as soon as we noticed. We have since restored the ...
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We're no longer starting new individual site Community Blogs - here's why
We've learned a lot by creating these per-site blogs for any site which asked for them. However, we at Stack Exchange have not been doing enough to make blogs work - neither for the contributors nor ...
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Stack Exchange Blogs Authentication, now with 80% less suck!
It appears that this post hasn't been entirely clear on how brand new blog users register. Check this post for a quick explanation on the process. Otherwise, read below for the announcement.
You ...
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Blog Overflow database error
blogoverflow.com, which is linked from site-specific blogs, says
Error establishing a database connection
I believe this is an error.
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Blog Overflow comment responses are outdented instead of indented
Check out the responses to comments.
They're misaligned and cut off on account of the margin-left: -20px important;
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Are blog statistics public information?
Moderators are banned from posting information about the site statistics in a public location, but what about blog stats? Is it okay to discuss anything about the stats, and if so, where would one ...
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Amazing! All sites have blogs!
Check. It. Out.
Open Source has a blog. Or do they? I've already found it slightly unusual that Open Source even has a blog. No announcements, so I was skeptical. But as curious and adventurous I ...
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Is there a way to report spam, or OT comments on Stack Exchange blogs?
Is there a way to flag spam comments, or other OT comments on a Stack Exchange blog? Is there a way for blogs associated to Stack Exchange 2.0 sites?
I just noticed the last two comments on ...
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Date format on security.blogoverflow.com
The date format on http://security.blogoverflow.com is ambigious. Can we have a month name in there as in the UK 07-06-11 is 7th June. (The year is ambiguous too, though that won't be a problem for ...
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Add popular blog posts to the Stack Exchange home page
If popular blog posts were included in the homepage of stackexchange.com, then popular content from the blogs would be much more visible to the users of Stack Exchange.
The blog posts would be ...
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jQuery on blogoverflow should be served from CDN
On most Stack Exchange sites, jQuery is served from the Google CDN:
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
On ...
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Add Blog Highlights to StackExchange Newsletters
As a new blogger on DIY.StackExchange.COM, it has become apparent that the blog reader base isn't as prevalent as on maybe some of the other sites.
It would be very beneficial to some of the smaller ...
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DIY.Blogoverflow.com is redirecting to stackexchange.com/blogs
I seem to be the unlucky recipient of a 302 redirect from the blogoverflow site, and was asked by Grace Note to upload the issue here. While trying to access the DIY blog site, I'm getting bounced ...
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Where have the blogs gone? [duplicate]
I have just posted about the EL&U blog being gone and though I'd try the other blogs. They're all gone! (Apart from the main SE blog.)
Where are the blogs?
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“Sorry, but there aren't any posts by [user].” sometimes appears erroneously on BlogOverflow
Visit IT Security's blog. As of now, the two most recent posts are by "Terry Chia". The third-most-recent post is by "scottpack". Clicking on scottpack's name in the byline of his post ("Stump the ...
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Anonymous (non-logged-in) users do not see any links to new blog posts
Now that blog posts go into the community bulletin instead of the main header, and given that the community bulletin is (apparently) not shown to anonymous users, it would appear that anonymous users ...
