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Should there be a shorter subdomain for the Software Engineering Stack Exchange?
I support swe because 3 is less than 4.
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
I like this, I like this a lot.
The design is just the right amount different from the current one to show continuity and yet show that we've changed, matured and grown up.
One small thing - is ...
ChrisFMod
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Agile principle:
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a
couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
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We have a scope problem with Software Engineering's tagline
Well, I am with you here, Robert, but not just for the reason you gave. The whole description is
too damn long
it is not surprising people read only the first half of it and forget about the second ...
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Please disregard this post if there is any danger of it causing a delay in the name change.
Double line meta version.
Also properly grayed out the title and mug for meta.
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Please disregard this post if there is any danger of it causing a delay in the name change.
Well, it has a coffee cup. So I'm already ecstatic. :)
With all due respect to our chronically-overworked ...
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Should we request a banner to communicate our policy regarding generative AI in posts?
Is our current policy of removing all generative AI content, even when
cited, still the desired wish of the community?
I believe the current policy that prohibits all Generative AI content is still ...
Thomas OwensMod
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What is a position of [software-developer]?
software-developer is a blatant meta-tag; everyone on this site should already be a software developer, so the tag does not add anything. If you see it, feel free to edit, vote to close and/or cast a ...
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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?
I'd also include tags like tools, developer-tools, career-development, education, software, and skills in this. I found these by going through a few pages of closed and deleted posts, since posts that ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Accepted
Bug: incorrect links in 'What topics can I ask about here?'
Since we were renamed from Programmers to Software Engineering, there was a mapping from the old domain name to the new one. But it looks like when the HTTPS rollout happened and they had to put the ...
Thomas OwensMod
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What is a position of [software-developer]?
I've already removed the tag from the historically locked questions.
I do ask that people take a few minutes before casting delete votes on closed questions, especially questions that are marked ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Now that 3 close votes has been proven and implemented on Stack Overflow, can we have the same on Software Engineering, please?
Some of you may have noticed the Meta Stack Exchange post - Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites (it's linked in the featured on meta sidebar) - we've finally got this project under ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [modelling] → [modeling]
I merged modelling into modeling, since that makes sense. I'm hesitant to do anything with model since it can refer to a model in the sense of a model of a system that you make when modeling, a model ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags
Update - these questions are now considered wholly off-topic here, so I've simplified the guidance further:
Wait! Job / Career questions are off-topic here. Yes, there are still a few around; it's a ...
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
The logo looks great. I appreciate the pragmatism in getting this rolled out, but can we have the name as regular text and not commented out? This always bothered me.
This site is not only about ...
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We have a scope problem with Software Engineering's tagline
I don't think there's much we can do or anything that we need to do.
They are taking one phrase out of a larger document and twisting it. Interviewing and hiring is clearly off-topic - interviewing ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Shall we change the reference tag description?
Considering that reference requests are off-topic, I fail to see how the tag relating to documents is relevant here. We already have a couple of tags related to documentation which are relevant. It ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Now that 3 close votes has been proven and implemented on Stack Overflow, can we have the same on Software Engineering, please?
As I wrote in the comments above, I first was very sceptical about this change when Robert asked for it. In the meantime, however, my opinion changed a bit and I think the positive effects of the ...
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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for [haskell]
This has been done. I applied the lang-hs code language for the default syntax highlighting for the tag.
Thomas OwensMod
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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?
This request is now complete.
According to the list provided to me, I added tag warnings for the following tags:
License related tags:
licensing/license/licenses,
xxx-license/licenses(mit-license, ...
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Should there be a redirect from se.stackexchange.com?
As per the consensus reached on this other discussion, the following redirects are now in place:
http://swe.stackexchange.com/ and https://swe.stackexchange.com/ now redirect to https://...
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Accepted
Enable automatic syntax highlighting for Swift
I did this thing. Not sure if it's retroactive, but it should be set going forward.
Thomas OwensMod
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We have a scope problem with Software Engineering's tagline
The issue that I see in this question is that the tagline identifies a class of users by attribute (mostly by profession, some by attitude).
I feel we shouldn't be defining the appropriate class of ...
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Possible grouping of "Analysis", "System analysis" and "Business analysis" tags
There are only 7 tags about analysis. As you pointed out, algorithm-analysis, static-analysis, and dependency-analysis are already well-defined.
Looking at code-analysis, this could use a little work,...
Thomas OwensMod
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Accepted
Is this question about code reviews on topic? If not, why?
I reverted the title to a more appropriate title, deleted all negatively scored answers, and reopened the question. It's on the edge of being too broad / primarily opinion based, but there's also some ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Badges and tag "X" buttons misplaced
Thanks for reporting it. There was some issue with our SVG sprite file for icons. For some reason it was off by few pixels - probably there was some issue with file export.
Anyway, fix for this is ...
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Shouldn't the nlp tag be replaced with natural-language-processing?
status-completed
This tag has been renamed to natural-language-processing
Agreed
Now that the maximum tag length has been increased to 35, I don't see any reason why this tag can't be renamed to ...
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Can we also get rid of [design-decisions]?
Ok, its done, I burned down the house. Please mark my question as status-completed.
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Accepted
First off-topic close reason text should be updated for new Stack Overflow phrasing
Robert Harvey made the close reason and I've approved it, putting it in place of the other close reason. This should be resolved - thanks for the heads up.
Thomas OwensMod
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Accepted
Having 3 or more images in a row shows "Unformatted code"
Turns out we never updated the code that detects unformatted code to take linked images (vs plain embedded ones) into account. I have a fix in a PR that should go live some time tomorrow barring any ...
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