34

Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013

We're opening up the new Community Promotion Ads for Super User, in time for the upcoming year! As well, we're also changing the cycle system - these will now run on a yearly basis, not by halves.

What are Community Promotion Ads?

Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.

Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?

This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:

  • cool desktop apps
  • the site's twitter account
  • scripts packs or power tools
  • cool events or conferences
  • anything else your community would genuinely be interested in

The goal is for future visitors to find out about the stuff your community deems important. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are relevant to your own community's interests, both for those already in the community and those yet to join.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

  1. All answers should be in the exact form of:

    [![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]

   [1]: http://image-url
   [2]: http://clickthrough-url

    Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.

  2. The question must always be tagged with the magic tag.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 220 x 250 pixels
  • Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
  • Must be GIF or PNG
  • No animated GIFs
  • Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.

You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats here.

3
  • 1
    Feel free to re-add any ads that were added in the past couple months, since they didn't get much air time.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 15:56
  • I fear that people are voting for open source projects that they like, not the ones that comply with the guidelines. The idea is supposed to be that ubiquitous projects should not feature, but some (like Fedora, FreeBSD), which are ubiquitous, are seemingly getting upvoted by fans.
    – mydoghasworms
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 6:27
  • Are there community ads for other Stack Exchange sites? Is there a way to find this for the other sites like StackOverflow? Simply searching for questions having "Community Promotion Ads" or that magic tag returned nothing.
    – MADCookie
    Commented May 16, 2012 at 21:18

27 Answers 27

Reset to default
65

Notepad++, Edit anything, anywhere, in any language

1
  • +1 because this is what I think of when I hear "language" now at parties. "Oh, what languages do you speak, Breakthrough?" "Oh, you know... English, C++, PHP, Python..."
    – Breakthrough
    Commented May 9, 2012 at 5:03
48

Windows console emulator with tabs

2
  • This absolutely rules! Resizable console windows sells it alone, if it wasn't for the other 200+ features.
    – x0n
    Commented Jul 3, 2012 at 18:41
  • Best Windows console I've found so far.
    – hmp
    Commented Jul 11, 2012 at 10:45
33

Your favorite apps, wherever you go.

2
  • 3
    If you want to tinker with it, I can provide the GIMP file.
    – iglvzx
    Commented Dec 31, 2011 at 3:21
  • +1 I had been planning to make an advert for PortableApps ever since this was started, but I could not think of a good enough design.
    – paradroid
    Commented Apr 13, 2012 at 22:56
27

If you think PuTTY was cool, try KiTTY...

9
  • 1
    Cool, hadn't seen this before. Maybe edit it to briefly mention why it's superior to putty?
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 8:03
  • 1
    I think it should be "thought --> was" or "think --> is"
    – iglvzx
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 16:50
  • @iglvzx depends completely on what you are trying to say. The way it is now is grammatically correct. However I do agree that "thought" sounds better! I'll edit it, along with Nathan's suggestion.
    – Pylsa
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 18:33
  • @RedhattedCatsaysBestWishes If you were to choose between my two suggestions, "think -> is" would be better, advertisement-wise.
    – iglvzx
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 18:36
  • 1
    @nhinkle this better?
    – Pylsa
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 18:46
  • Awesome @RedhattedCatsaysBestWishes!
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 21:07
  • it doesn't have a scp like putty.. :(
    – Vineet Menon
    Commented Feb 20, 2012 at 7:01
  • 2
    @vineet yes it does...
    – Pylsa
    Commented Feb 20, 2012 at 10:20
  • 3
    @nhinkle I think one of its benefits over putty is that it can remember username and passwords for sessions
    – Meysam
    Commented Mar 1, 2012 at 8:24
25

Capture your screen the way you want it captured

4
  • @jmendeth Ehm what?
    – Pylsa
    Commented Apr 19, 2012 at 7:50
  • 2
    @jmendeth Yes it IS open source... And since when is being multi-platform a requisite?
    – Pylsa
    Commented Apr 19, 2012 at 17:28
  • Ooops, forgot to read the <title>! Sorry. Undownvoting.
    – Alba Mendez
    Commented Apr 19, 2012 at 19:35
  • A project most worthy of being community advertised. Only wish it would be ported to nix, because it provides a good balance of functionality; Shutter is overcomplicated. But wait, I digress...
    – mydoghasworms
    Commented Apr 25, 2012 at 9:53
23

Follow us on Twitter!

7
  • The font looks weird. Its spacing is a bit off. I would suggest to use a standard serif font (e.g. Arial, the one used here) instead, and just highlight the Twitter brand name.
    – slhck
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 19:26
  • I'm mostly just following a template on this one, haha. The Twitter ad is just a generic thing we use both to advert the Twitter but also as just a base demonstration of how the thread works (not sure why Super User was absent one in the previous ad thread). At any rate, if you can create any improvements, feel free to edit this image and replace it with a better one.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 19:53
  • Haha, fair enough! Changed the font to Arial.
    – slhck
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 19:58
  • 1
    @GraceNote we didn't have a twitter when the last round of ads started ;)
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 20:56
  • 3
    @GraceNote: Can we have image regions? Then we can also add links to meta and chat to this ad. (｡◕‿◕｡)
    – Tamara Wijsman
    Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 7:08
  • Minor update: Text color and font matches Super User's h tags, uses new twitter logo, removed second twitter "logo" (it's against twitter's branding guidelines)
    – evan.bovie
    Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 1:48
  • Oh, and here's a PSD
    – evan.bovie
    Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 2:00
22

Open source, scriptable automation for Windows

5
  • 1
    AutoHotkey's website got a facelift, so I thought I'd put this together. :)
    – iglvzx
    Commented May 4, 2012 at 18:34
  • 3
    +1 While one could say it's a common tool, many SU questions show that it's not, not enough at least.
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Commented May 4, 2012 at 18:42
  • 1
    And AutoIt was there first, which this is obviously copied from (but seems to have became more popular when related to hotkeys); +1 anyhow.
    – Tamara Wijsman
    Commented May 7, 2012 at 14:40
  • @TomWijsman You are never going to get off my case for preferring AHK over AutoIt, huh? :P
    – iglvzx
    Commented May 7, 2012 at 20:11
  • @iglvzx: Didn't know we spoke about AHK earlier... :(
    – Tamara Wijsman
    Commented May 7, 2012 at 21:54
19

Creating PDFs just as they are supposed to be

2
  • 3
    I'm a huge fan of PDFCreator!
    – Justin Dearing
    Commented Feb 9, 2012 at 2:48
  • @JustinDearing As am I! :D
    – Pylsa
    Commented Feb 9, 2012 at 10:17
19

Fedora Project

2
  • 3
    Great Distro i use it.
    – YumYumYum
    Commented Feb 23, 2012 at 17:03
  • 2
    I have to ask this now about each open source project: This is ubiquitous. Why is it here?
    – mydoghasworms
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 6:24
17

KeePass Password Storage

2
  • 1
    Well, that's appropriate.
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 2:32
  • 3
    Needs more question mark.
    – iglvzx
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 18:43
13

It will play anything, and it'll do it for free

Note: Ads for ubiquitous software which most users are already familiar with do not further the goals of community promotion ads. We're keeping this as an example of the types of ads that aren't constructive, but it will not actually be shown on the site.

6
  • 15
    I don't think we need ads for popular software like VLC. Pretty much everyone's heard of it, and if they haven't, are already using something else that does the job. See the discussion at Define scope of community ads. What it boils down to is that VLC doesn't need our help to get attention - it's already wildly popular. We should be using community ads to promote things that aren't already so ubiquitous.
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 19:48
  • @nhinkle Great point (:
    – Pylsa
    Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 20:00
  • I disagree. Even though it may be ubiquitous (and I don't think it is - that's just your opinion), VLC is open source, and as such deserves everyone's support. After all, if obscureness were the defining criterion, then we would have to take down the ads for FreeBSD, Fedora and Notepad++.
    – mydoghasworms
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 6:07
  • @mydoghasworms I agree. However, as you can see here, VLC has had plenty of attention in the Community Ads program last year.
    – Pylsa
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 10:39
  • Yes, I see now, thanks. I did make a remark on the question here though, that I suspect that some ads are upvoted by fans, rather than being voted for based on their need for exposure. Anyway, it's community-driven, so I guess that's the vox populi.
    – mydoghasworms
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 12:19
  • Helps the project fixing trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/35
    – Iulius Curt
    Commented May 23, 2012 at 12:50
13

MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

2
  • 1
    What does it even do?
    – richardwiden
    Commented Jun 13, 2012 at 15:35
  • 1
    @Richard: You'll find out when you hover over it ;) Markdown is the markup language we're using all over the SE network btw.
    – Oliver Salzburg
    Commented Jun 13, 2012 at 16:06
12

FreeBSD

3
  • Good distro i use FreeNAS works reliable.
    – YumYumYum
    Commented Feb 23, 2012 at 17:04
  • 1
    I have to ask this now about each open source project: This is ubiquitous. Why is it here?
    – mydoghasworms
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 6:24
  • 6
    Because the icon looks awesome (somewhat seriously, it actually doesn't look out of place), he's a daemon, and FreeBSD is not that well known, and it is rather different than Linux.
    – Hawken
    Commented May 6, 2012 at 4:21
9

Ninite - Simple Unattended Installation and Patching

6

Mou is different: It's for web developers. Syntax highlighting, live preview, fullscreen mode, auto save, powerful actions, auto pair, incremental search, custom themes, HTML export, enhanced CJK characters support. I know, it's exactly the app you want.

4
  • Mouseover text: Mou is different: It's for web developers. Syntax highlighting, live preview, fullscreen mode, auto save, powerful actions, auto pair, incremental search, custom themes, HTML export, enhanced CJK characters support. I know, it's exactly the app you want.
    – evan.bovie
    Commented May 18, 2012 at 0:35
  • 1
    Is this open source?
    – DMan
    Commented Jul 2, 2012 at 0:38
  • No, but I don't see any requirement that states that all advertisements must be open source. Mou is free during beta, and those who donate during the beta receive a free license; Mou has been in beta for a while now.
    – evan.bovie
    Commented Jul 2, 2012 at 16:25
  • My apologies, I believe that requirement is only on SO.
    – DMan
    Commented Jul 2, 2012 at 17:45
3

Automate repetitive tasks on your Mac with Automator

2
  • It's surprising how often "use Automator" is a good answer to questions relating to OS X. Therefore this ad. If someone has a better URL for it, please leave a comment. automator.us and automator.tv both are ancient. macosxautomation.com/automator perhaps?
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Commented May 4, 2012 at 12:20
  • 1
    I think the apple.com link is good. It is developed by Apple, after all.
    – iglvzx
    Commented May 4, 2012 at 18:02
3

Join today!

1
  • According to the question, "...you might promote the following things: ...anything else your community would genuinely be interested in." Because a number of Super User community members own e-book readers, I figured this would be an appropriate ad to display in the usual rotation.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Nov 17, 2012 at 21:44
2

Connecting to every server.

1
  • Mouseover text: Connecting to every server.
    – evan.bovie
    Commented May 18, 2012 at 0:36
1

ISO Master

-3

netsniff-ng - the packet sniffing beast

-4

Mozilla Firefox Power User Collection

7
  • -1 Seems to mostly include well known, well established Firefox addons that don't require promotion on SU.
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Commented May 4, 2012 at 9:06
  • The requirements state "anything else your community would genuinely be interested in." As this is a one-stop shop for any firefox power user, I respectfully disagree.
    – Paul
    Commented May 5, 2012 at 11:49
  • 3
    @Paul I would assume a `power user' would want to choose their own addons, not some addon `Pack'
    – Hawken
    Commented May 6, 2012 at 4:23
  • @Hawken, I agree with your statement and yet they can; this pack merely bookmarks all the tried and proven ones in a collection so users can find them faster. That said, it's community-driven here, so if it keeps getting downvotes then democracy rules. :)
    – Paul
    Commented May 7, 2012 at 16:09
  • @Paul you don't lose rep for being down-voted here right?
    – Hawken
    Commented May 7, 2012 at 23:33
  • @Hawken No rep lost. That applies to both community wiki and meta, so...
    – Bob
    Commented May 8, 2012 at 13:27
  • @Hawken, correct, no rep lost. I wouldn't mind if I did as ultimately it guides people's behavior and avoids people being internet-silly--although my understanding is community wiki and meta doesn't count rep, more to avoid extra rep being added for subjective answers such as what is the best anti-virus and the like.
    – Paul
    Commented May 11, 2012 at 18:52
-7

PortableApps.com: Your Digital Life, Anywhere™

2
  • 3
    There's already an ad for Portable Apps. Perhaps you could discuss with iglvzx which design will work best, and choose one to use?
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Jan 3, 2012 at 17:45
  • @nhinkle: Sure. I'll check with the folks at PortableApps.com, too.
    – Aluísio A. S. G.
    Commented Jan 4, 2012 at 9:45
-7

Liberkey

9
  • Please read the requirements. The image must be exactly 220 x 250 pixels in dimension.
    – iglvzx
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:09
  • I have resized it
    – Stat-R
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:12
  • It is still the wrong size.
    – iglvzx
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:13
  • 1
    Answer needs to be only the image and link. Please follow the template that is presented in the opening post.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:15
  • 1
    is this even open source?
    – Simon Sheehan
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 20:54
  • 2
    @Stat-R No. The platform itself (LiberKey) is not open source. The applications that run on it can be.
    – iglvzx
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 21:40
  • Yes, I could not find any evidence that Liberkey platform is open source
    – Stat-R
    Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 22:07
  • 1
    @Stat-R Perhaps you could remake the image to highlight some reasons why you would use LiberKey over PortableApps.com?
    – iglvzx
    Commented May 1, 2012 at 0:13
  • 2
    @SimonSheehan The open source requirement is only on SO.
    – Daniel Beck Mod
    Commented May 1, 2012 at 9:56
-8

Firefox - Take back the web

Note: Ads for ubiquitous software which most users are already familiar with do not further the goals of community promotion ads. We're keeping this as an example of the types of ads that aren't constructive, but it will not actually be shown on the site.

4
  • Hi @Simon! Although I like a Firefox ad, I think this is a little bit too abstract. You might consider at least adding "Firefox" or something of the sort. Remember, you should be attracting people that have (little to) no experience with FF. Why should they click the ad? Just some tips, not trying to bring you down or something! :D
    – Pylsa
    Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 18:29
  • @RedhattedCatsaysBestWishes Great idea! thanks! I'll fix it up :)
    – Simon Sheehan
    Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 18:35
  • 8
    I don't think we need ads for popular software like Firefox. Anybody who's on this website has heard of Firefox. See the discussion at Define scope of community ads. What it boils down to is that Firefox doesn't need our help to get attention - it's already wildly popular. We should be using community ads to promote things that aren't already so ubiquitous.
    – nhinkle Mod
    Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 19:49
  • Slowest browser still its not fastest enough with Chrome nor Opera.
    – YumYumYum
    Commented Feb 23, 2012 at 17:05

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .