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Disappearing "Hi!"
I began this answer with a salutation, and hopefully it was never posted, because that's what the system is supposed to do, as per Jeff Atwood's answer on Meta Stack Exchange:
We now automatically ...
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Did spacing increase recently?
You're right, line spacing has been increased, as mentioned here on Meta Stack Exchange: New post formatting
Many people don't like the change, and posts like Please revert the line-height change! and ...
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Why does mathoverflow constantly compile the latex for my questions and answers?
I want to see how may people also have this problem or if I am the only one, so let me conduct a basic poll.
$\bullet$ If you have the problem where typing a long answer with plenty of mathematics ...
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
You can hide the part in HTML comments:
BEFORE <!-- this is something I want to hide --> AFTER
produces:
BEFORE AFTER
Spoilers would be another option, ...
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How to @ a user with non-Latin characters?
I am not sure about people using mobile devices, but on desktop using comment replies doesn't seem that different for users with non-Latin usernames.
If I am in a comment where such user can be pinged,...
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Viewing reputation and badges is now opt-in and compatible with the new front page
Maybe it might be useful to collect examples of some situations where it is actually useful to see the users reputation. (In the other words, some cases in which MO users might want to switch the ...
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
Since other answers mention HTML comments, let me clarify that using them is only a commonly employed custom on SE sites, which just abuses the fact that it works by accident.
In reality, the ...
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Ignoring certain users' postings
I share the view by one of the moderators in the post you have linked to that providing such a tool is a bad idea.
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Disappearing "Hi!"
Boundary regularity of suitable weak solution for the Navier-Stokes equations, J. Funct. Anal. 268 (2015), no. 8, 2171–2187, MR3318646.
The above is supposed to be a reference to a paper by the ...
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Color of links (both in posts and comments)
Based on this request, we've updated the link colors using a brighter blue that is more distinguishable from the surrounding text, and tested with a colorblindness simulator (though it's not an exact ...
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Next badge appeared and disappeared
There was apparently some A/B testing of this some days ago, see Anna Lear's comment here:
We're currently A/B testing this feature [next badge/privilege progress in the achievements drop-down] to ...
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Why does mathoverflow constantly compile the latex for my questions and answers?
My apologies if this should be a comment rather than answer, but robjohn has a website with some very handy bookmarks to deal with these issues. Obviously it would be preferable if a bookmark bar ...
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Tell what's been modified
Thanks to jeq's suggestion, there is an answer on stackapps for that exact purpose! That doesn't mean it shouldn't be a standard feature, but it does mean that you can have this feature right now.
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Can the flagging of off-topic questions be simplified?
If a question is already closed but not particularly offensive, it isn't really necessary to flag for moderator attention. Such posts will be cleaned up by some routine process after a while.
If you ...
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Favorites tab on user page is populated with StackOverflow users
I've realized that at some point I must have enabled the FriendsStack extension in Chrome, and then completely forgotten about it. This extension supposedly allows one to favorite users, but I never ...
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How to find out what activity activated a favorite?
You went to "favorites" tab. Now (not necessary, but just to see what post was last active) select "Activity" and then click the date (sssssh, it is the secret, for this reason the timestamp looks ...
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Disappearing "Hi!"
${}$ Hi Jeremy,
The trick is to use tex. I preceded the salutation by dollar sign - open curly bracket - close curly bracket - dollar sign.
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Keyword Search of the User's own (my own) questions or answers
You can find various search modifiers in the help center. Or simply by clicking on "Advanced Search Tips" after you search for something.
Specifically, to find posts by a specific user you can user <...
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
Since Stack Exchange allows also some limited use of html, you can use <!---...---> to make a "comment" inside ...
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Tabs on the front page
Sorry about that. We accidentally pushed a set of changes earlier that wasn't meant to go public just yet. The change has been reverted, and things should be back to normal.
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Ignoring certain users' postings
I found a way of mitigating and perhaps solving the issue that prompted my question which may even be acceptable to those that didn't like the idea of hiding users.
Certain adblockers (e.g. ublock ...
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Invisible posts
As far as I know there is no way to make posts with very negative scores show up on your front page, but you can see a list of questions sorted like the front page but with no posts hidden at https://...
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Mysterious evil scrollbar
Using Chrome, the mysterious scroll bar appears for me when I zoom in, but only at 110% and 125%, not at 150% or 175%.
Interestingly, the same thing does not happen on math.stackexchange.com or tex....
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