Questions tagged [winter-bash-2022]
For questions about the Winter / Summer Bash (holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2022. It ran from Wednesday, December 14th 21:00 UTC to Wednesday, January 4th 21:00 UTC.
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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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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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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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Has there ever been a picture of Sparkles the Unicorn?
I'm wondering if there has ever been a photo of Sparkles the Unicorn on Winter Bash.
Also, is there a particular reason that the Sparkles-related pages aren't formatted in Winter Bash style?
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Let's check in on Sparkles the Unicorn!
After two eventful years, Sparkles the Unicorn is determined to spend this year's holidays relaxing at home.
I bet she'd love to see her friends. Why don't you /visit-sparkles and see how she's doing?
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Can I swap Solstice (Sun) with Solstice (Moon) hat? [closed]
I earned the Solstice (Sun) hat but I would like the Solstice (Moon) hat instead. Is there any way to swap between them?
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Phrasing of "Squared Away" hat not clear
The Squared Away hat's description is (without clicking on it):
Post 4 answers on 4 separate sites during Winter Bash
Which is unclear for many users, I came across 3 users asking in chat that why ...
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What's "NY-CONWEB02"?
I saw this at the very bottom of the Winter Bash 2022 source code and it stuck out to me:
<!-- NY-CONWEB02 -->
Don't you think the people deserve to know what this means?
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What is the business reason for Winter Bash?
Obviously, Winter Summer Bash is delightful and fun and rewards regulars with a little gamification. But it also seems like a fairly large effort to plan, design, and maintain. Is there a business ...
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Will I get the Splunk hat when a [data] tag is added to a question after I answered it?
... and will it be seen as "cheating" when I add such a tag afterwards by myself, maybe after my answer already got an upvote? (Of course, the tag should fit to the question's content.)
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