Questions tagged [winter-bash]
For general questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) celebration at the end of the year. Winter Bash is sunsetting in 2023.
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Are old Winterbash leaderboards still available?
I tried to search for old Winterbash leaderboards but I always get redirect on a blog page.
Is there a way to see old leaderboard pages or are they lost forever?
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Since there is no Winter Bash, can we share uplifting and inspirational thoughts for this time of the year? [closed]
At this time of the year (December 2023) the focus of most literature and television adverts seems to be about eating, drinking, giving presents and the copious consumption of material "things&...
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Will Stack Exchange be running something for April Fools in 2024?
Earlier this year, Philippe created a post on MSO stating that SE wouldn't be running an April Fools joke this year.
Admittedly, that post did end with
We hope to continue celebrating April Fools' ...
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Sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash: Rationale and Next Steps
This year, we made the difficult decision to sunset Winter/Summer Bash. Winter Bash has been an annual event on Stack Exchange each December for the past decade.
What are the origin and goals of ...
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Incorrect/Misleading Defending the Unicorn Quiz Stipulations [closed]
In the attempt to save Sparkles there is a quiz. One of the stipulations is as follows:
All answers are either integers or at most two words (no punctuation,
spaces optional), case insensitive
I've ...
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SEDE query to find progress on Four Ayes hat?
I've been working on a query to count the number of days a user's posts have had votes up, with no votes down on any day. But it seems like it's missing some posts. Users that have Four Ayes, do not ...
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Hats popup isn't scrollable in the Samsung Internet browser [duplicate]
On my mobile phone, I can open the hats' popup from my activity page, but one I do so, I cannot scroll it. Or rather, no matter how much I scroll, the screen doesn't move, and I'm left with the same ...
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How can I save images of me in my hats as transparent PNGs? [closed]
I'm looking to get a PNG of my various hats on my profile pic for personal use (changing the hat I'm wearing and capturing an image of each setup somehow). I need a PNG that's either 32 × 32 or 128 × ...
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How can one see one's past hats?
Can future winterbashYYYY.stackexchange.com site/s be modified so that users can see what hats they obtained in a year? (So for example in 2024, a user could see what hats they obtained in 2023.)
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Gregorio Y. Zara hat covers up username in chat [duplicate]
The user Panda currently wears the Gregorio Y. Zara hat. But, now in chat, his username is covered up:
When a user has multiple messages in a row, their username is aligned under the profile image.
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Wrong phrasing in "Can you help guide Sparkles back home? " page [duplicate]
Once you find Sparkles, the instructions page tells us:
There she is! You have are almost there!
As I already mentioned last year, this should be either changed to:
There she is! You are almost ...
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Winter/Summer Bash snowflake is not appearing on the top bar of the main site (Stack Exchange) [duplicate]
I am not sure if this is intended, but I don't see the Winter/Summer Bash snowflake notification on the top bar of the main site (https://stackexchange.com).
It shows me the same inbox as on the other ...
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Grammar mistake in Sparkles the Unicorn Game [duplicate]
Page 3 of the Sparkles the Uniform Game has a grammar mistake in the second sentence of the page header:
There she is! You have are almost there!
Presumably the word "have" was ...
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Unable to scroll down to see all my hats in the Winter Bash hats pop-up
I'm unable to scroll down my list of hats in the Winter Bash hats pop-up as it scrolls the background (my activity page) instead.
This seems to be a very recent occurrence, perhaps due to a recent bug ...
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What's happened to my hats?
I recently reached 27 hats.
However, on the Winter Bash leaderboard, it displays me as only having 22 hats. Is this caching or a bug? (I had 25 hats yesterday and it was still showing 22 hats.)
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