Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
This is an update to: Merge firefox-related tags?
We now have:
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
(nothing in between)
firefox-10 x4
How is this going to end up?...
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Get rid of the [hack] tag
The hack seems barely useful, more like a meta tag. It's used for hacking, but not strictly in the sense of security threats, but also "hacking" something together.
Should we remove the "hack" tag ...
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Tags go totally nuts on hover
There's a certain area around tags where they will flip constantly between their normal and hover states. Please see the following video for an illustration of the issue:
This is in Chrome stable in ...
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Tags beyond saving
save (merged into saving)
save-as (merged into saving)
saving
These tags need to die.
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See possible duplicates in question
When one opens a question and starts typing a title, a list of possible duplicate questions is shown as illustrated below.
I assume that this isn't used often since some quite obvious duplicates are ...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Is dropout useful?
A long time ago it was identified as a tag that should never be the only tag on a question...a good sign it's a meta tag.
There are only 4 questions tagged as such so I get it's ...
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Can we activate syntax highlighting for code blocks based on the question's tags?
I think it is time to revisit the syntax highlighting question. There is a similar request that suggests using HTML comments to activate highlighting for specific posts. I would rather implement ...
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Why do the voting arrow images on superuser.com have non-straight edges?
Does it look like this to anyone else?
missing image
Edit: I've edited the image to show the stackoverflow and superuser arrows next to each other. I'm not terribly concerned about the difference in ...
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Tag cleanup suggestion: [copy]
Description of copy is "Questions about copying in the context of file managemenent and backing up."
Okay we have another tag file-copying which serve more or less the same purpose; we have xcopy ...
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Should we delete the [homework] tag?
The homework tag is a meta-tag, which is explicitly discouraged. Should we delete the homework tag from all questions? Although a question may be about homework, there's nothing useful gained by ...
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Will an option to migrate to Web Apps be added to Super User's Close dialog?
The title says it all really.
Now that Nothing To Install WebApps is live, will it be added to the close dialog?
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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Location of the "( visit meta )" link
Can we please move that link to top right? Like this "log out | about | meta | faq" ? Please?
Update: Here is a screenshot
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Retag request: torrent -> bittorrent
15 questions tagged 'torrent' on superuser
48 questions tagged 'bittorrent' on superuser
(Only 'bittorrent' is used on SO and SF.)
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Remove "binary"
I heard computers use binary. My question is about computers, so I tagged it "binary".
binary
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Beating the beta tag
Considering we already recommend having a sub-tag for betas and RCs, beta is redundant. Can we get rid of it?
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New error message box is easy to miss
In my answer to Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address? I wanted to include a link to the IP for superuser.com to show how shared hosting and accessing by IP's did not work, ...
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Vampyric tags: [design] won't die
design didn't die like we wanted it to.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything may be among the questions tagged with it, but these still cover such a broad swath of computery experience ...
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Logistics for Cleanup Weekend 2
We are having another cleanup weekend.
This time we will focus on:
fixing the rest of the broken images (most of this work has been completed)
cleaning up some more tags
The cleanup will last for ...
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Get rid of Microsoft tag [duplicate]
microsoft shouldn't exist, as it does not help find pertinent questions. I vote to get rid of it
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Question of the week #36
Now we're into week 36 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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PDF tag wiki uneditable
There is no link/button that will allow editing of the pdf tag wiki. Improve this tag wiki pink just redirects back to the tag wiki page.
What is going on?
(Note DanielBeck also has this problem, so ...
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Why does the Super User Blog have the same styles as the Server Fault Blog?
It seems that the Super User Blog is using the same stylesheet as the Server Fault Blog. Shouldn't we have our own colors? Maybe something like so:
instead of what we have now:
Edit: After further ...
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How can a question be protected by Community? Why is the date format different there?
I don't understand the following screenshot I took a moment ago:
How can Community, and not a named moderator, protect something?
Why is the date and time format in the protected message ...
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plasma tag itself is too generic, should be compounded and split into TV and workspace
As things stand right now, plasma is ambiguous. Questions labeled with it refer both to plasma TVs and to the KDE graphical environment, and this doesn't seem correct to me.
I suggest deleting the ...
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Tag [general] is so meta
Trogdor? Please burninate the tag general. No explanation necessary...
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One-boxing on Super User chat for the SU Blog
Now that the SU blog is official, it would be nice if posts from the SU blog could be one-boxed in Chat, like posts from the official SO blog are. Could this be enabled? I imagine it would be a pretty ...
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Unable to propose tag wiki
I am trying to create a tag wiki for question-of-the-week, but every time I click on Propose Tag Wiki it just reloads the page and doesn't let me make the tag wiki.
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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We should cleanup/remove the [combine] tag
There are around 100 questions with the tag combine. Some of them are related to combining or merging items, and for others, I don't know why they're tagged with it at all.
I don't think this tag adds ...
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The next [selection] for burnination
The selection tag has 131 questions and 0 followers. Questions with this tag cover the entire scope of the site. The tag serves absolutely zero purpose and should be wiped from the face of Super User ...
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Let's change our [background]
There are actually a few 'background' tags floating around in the... background.
...Ok, that one was terrible. In all seriousness:
Updates
These tags have been removed:
background - used ...
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Super User Question of the Week #31
Now we're into week 31 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Merge [web-crawler] [webcrawling] [crawler] [spider] tags
web-crawler x 20
spider x 12
webcrawling x 6
crawler x 5
They're all identical and refer to Web crawler:
Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots,
Web spiders, Web robots,...
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Tag "lock" is a mess
The tag lock seems to be a mess.
It's used for among other things:
file locks
lock screen
keyboard lock
locking of preferences
excel
We should do something about it.
We should probably ...
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Pummel [panel]?
panel is an undefined tag with 42 questions. Even if it was defined, it begs misuse because it can apply to so many different kinds of things, and people don't read the wiki excerpts. Should we beat ...
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Merge [email-rules] and [email-filter]
email-rules has 1 follower and 61 67 uses:
Actions performed automatically on incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that you specify.
email-filter has 0 followers and 48 51 uses:
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Top Questions of the Week #19
Now we're into post 19 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Top Questions of the Week #17
Now we're into post 17 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Should we split up the off-topic "shopping" closing reason?
One of our current off-topic reasons reads like this:
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, ...
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Question of the Week #38
Now we're into post #38 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any questions that you feel is of worth ...
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merge [shortcut], [shortcuts] and [keyboard-shortcuts] on superuser
On superuser we have
[keyboard-shortcuts] x 34
[shortcuts] x 4
[shortcut] x 2
I was thinking of changing the 6 ones labeled shortcuts and shortcut to keyboard-shortcuts as this would be the least ...
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Disk, disc, and hard
Right now, there seems to be one canonical hard-drive tag, with 901 questions. There are also questions tagged disk and shudder hard disk. Yes, that's hard and disk. Should they all be retagged into ...
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Clean it up, and [diy]
diy has many, many questions, that could be closed. This tag is also EXTREMELY meta. I propose we get rid of it, quickly... And with a can-do attitude
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Please burninate the [loading] tag
loading doesn't sound like a very useful tag to me.
16 questions are tagged with it and I request that it is burninated!
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'Lost' tag is meaningless
This is on 8 questions, and I just saw it used as recently as today. This seems like the definition of a meta tag to me and should probably go away, yes?
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Superuser "Too Many Requests" shows Stackoverflow artifact
While opening all StackExchange sites at once (Opera -> Links), superuser gave me the page that told me there were too many requests.
The title of the page contained "StackOverflow", not superuser or ...
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Is there an easy way to find out what this site's on-topic and off-topic questions are?
There is no quick and easy way to find what are the topics of Super User, nor what is off-topic
The superuser.com/tour: Gives a very (and too) brief information in its first paragraph as to what is ...
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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
Synaptics is a company that makes human interface devices like touchpads. Synaptic is a Linux package manager that works with Apt. At some point in the past, these two tags were incorrectly ...
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