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3ventic

12:17 AM

(╯°□°）╯︵ SSƆ darn icon

user259867

12:48 AM

Need somebody to script Selenium for me $ -- perhaps one character doesn't make it spam, but pretty close.

Frank

Where can I find the exact date any stack exchange site graduated?

Braiam

"Oh, you're using their Chrome APP, not their Chrome EXTENSION. They're very similar but one handles window creation differently." is a thing I hope I can stop saying soon.

@Frank search "graduation" and [design] tagged discussions

user259867

@Frank Here. launch_date is graduation, open_beta is public, closed_beta is private.

user259867

Hover over timestamps to see human-readable dates.

Frank

@Fundamental Thanks

bluet

1:05 AM

@Fundamental probably not since there's translation things to do that, but maybe she could be writing a ru.SO blog post or somethin

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A: Triage audits imply genuine users are spamming (not good)

The people have spoken, a real user will not be used for triage audits. The real user who created the spammy post will be used instead. In a lot of cases this user will have already been deleted which is a giveaway, but this seems better than the alternative.

Kevin Brown

1:23 AM

Just realized that question had a score of 100

Frank

Kevin's here.

Hi Kevin

@KevinBrown obsolete

bjb568

gonna watch oblivion

user259867

2:00 AM

that was a typo on the Fog Creek site; It was actually Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange shortened to "StackExchange" — Joel Spolsky ♦ 1 hour ago

Jan Dvorak

gotta watch BJB dive into oblivion

Frank

@JanDvorak y u yell his name

Jan Dvorak

Tiny avatar? Sorry...

user259867

The complementary name, "Knowledge Overflow", wouldn't be that bad.

Jan Dvorak

or just SOKE

user259867

2:03 AM

Or they could have omitted a vowel at a random place... though the possibilities are very limited. "StackXchange"

user259867

One of SE 1.0 sites mentioned on that old SOKE page is still active: moms4mom.com

Frank

2:18 AM

I'm not a Bart. Trust me, you want to be a not Bart.

Jan Dvorak

you could remove more letters and get it down to sExchange

@Fundamental wow. That's ugly.

Their design looks like I've suddenly turned color-blind.

user259867

And their Twitter bot mostly tweets spam posts, before they get deleted.

user259867

The site now runs on OSQA, not on SE 1.0 anymore. (My guess is there are no SE 1.0 sites left in the wild, but I don't remember seeing any official statement to that effect.)

Kevin Brown

answers.onstartups.com

At some point I remember that working, what happened to it?

Startup Business – answers.onstartups.com

Q&A site for entrepreneurs looking to start a new business, or running a new business, and looking for help.

Closed after 1176 days in beta.

Aha, that makes sense

hichris123

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A: Site "On Startups" is closed - what to do now?

I'm sorry that this jarred you, we posted a notice there well over a month ago letting folks know that the site would be closing. I probably should have moved a recap of that here once the site redirected, and I'm noting that for the future. You'll soon be able to access all of the content, we'l...

bluet

2:28 AM

user259867

@KevinBrown Somewhat. They are now trying it again, but the old site continues outside of SE network. Kind of a mess.

Kevin Brown

@bluet That's why I was confused, I heard that there was a new one and remembered the old one

user259867

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A: Will there be a replacement for OnStartups site?

Kind of an incredibly negative outcome for Stack Exchange, unfortunately. (Also, I liked using this site! It will be a cold, cold day in hell before I go to Quora for startup advice.) I wonder if SE should consider moving to a read-only archive of long beta sites like this, which have very long ...

bluet

i would join a startdowns site

user259867

So, onstartups.com still exists but the links to "answers" are broken. SE does not own the domain, but the answer section still redirect to SE, where there is no site to be found. I suppose SE could direct that traffic to Startups... not sure what ethical / business implications are there.

user259867

2:47 AM

Number of questions asked in 2015 so far: Bright Journey: 6, Startups: 201.

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