Questions tagged [area-51]
Area 51 is the Stack Exchange Network staging zone, where users come together to build new Q&A sites. New site ideas are proposed, discussed, and the best go on to beta. Area 51 has its own discussion site, Area 51 Discussions. If a question is only related to Area 51, then you may ask it either on Meta Stack Exchange or on Area 51 Discussions.
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How do I report bugs in Stack Exchange (e.g., a voting bug in Area 51)?
How would I report bugs in Stack Exchange (e.g., a voting bug on Area 51)?
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What happened to the chat?
What happened to the chat? It seems it's no longer accessible. Why that weird redirect?
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Can we make Stack Overflow Student a success? [duplicate]
Stack Overflow is not for beginners:
Stack Overflow is for professional and enthusiast programmers, people
who write code because they love it.
This can create difficulties on the site when users ...
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Process / Etiquette around promoting a tag(s) to form a community
I know that suggesting a community happens in Area 51, but in addition to that does the Stack Overflow team/community ever suggest that a tag (or a group of tags/other communities) should evolve into ...
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Does soliciting support for an Area 51 proposal count as 'spam'?
I met this "question" (10k+) on Stack Overflow Meta. I think it may be spam, because the asker wants to promote their Area 51 proposal (they are even promoting it in their username), but I'm not 100% ...
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Area 51 incorrectly counts total rep from Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Not sure this one belongs here, but since Documentation belongs to Stack Overflow I'll post it here I guess.
It gives me 2x the 7,158 from Stack Overflow, one time from Documentation and one time from ...
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SO and Documentation reputation (and badges) are calculated twice on Area 51 [duplicate]
The question is about Stack Overflow reputation, so I decided to ask it here.
On Area 51 my reputation from several Stack Exchange sites is showing this way:
I thought that Stack Overflow ...
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In Area 51, Reputation and badges of Documentation are the same as Stack Overflow [closed]
Going through the list of users in a Area 51 proposal I committed to, I noticed that my profile shows a network reputation of 223K. This looks way over the real one (currently 119K):
So this seems to ...
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Is it acceptable to promote sites still in Area51 in answers and/or comments?
As Stack Overflow topics grow and diverse, people start suggesting and helping in the creation of new sites in the Exchange Network. For this purpose, the Area51 site exists. It acts as a platform to ...
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Bug when click on Confirm And Create This Account on Area 51
I want to join Area 51, but in the joining steps, when I use the Confirm And Create This Account button in the page with this link, Confirm Your New Account, I receive:
Page not found. We couldn't ...
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Why all the Stack Exchange sites when everyone just asks on Stack Overflow anyway? [duplicate]
To me this just doesn't make sense or really in the inverse it does make sense but it just doesn't seem to be adhered to in any way.
The objective here seems to be to spawn off another Stack Exchange ...
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Does it pay to spin off sites?
This week, we are launching a new site for Emacs questions. It's been pointed out that there are already 11k questions tagged emacs on Stack Overflow. Setting aside the question of whether new sites ...
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