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b_jonas

12:03 AM

hats!

Rob

1:37 AM

Read only mode

Mark

Could be worse: could be write-only mode.

Rob

True

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Q: Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, 16 December at 01:30-2:00 UTC (Wednesday, December 15 at 8:30-9:00 PM US/EST)

This work is in progress... tl;dr Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to 30 minutes beginning shortly after Thursday, 16 December at 01:30 UTC (Wednesday, December 15 at 8:30 PM US/EST). Enter...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

2:29 AM

It seems the API is enforcing read-only mode this time

M.A.R.

3:35 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 it was YOU all along

DUN DUN DUUUUUN

@Mark that's just the default mode.

@Sha, feeling betrayed and defeated at the reveal, slowly sits down to ponder the meaning of life

Is life really worth living, if you are but the third egg in an Easter?

What of the other holidays, do eggs of the Easter simply cease to be? Can they truly not be assimilated into society as functioning eggs?

etc etc.

At this moment, @Sha is distracted by dirty thoughts about eggs and euphemisms

Wolgwang

4:41 AM

Is it okay to post more than 1 bug in 1 post?

Catija

Only if they're very closely related.

Wolgwang

Ohk

Wolgwang

5:04 AM

@Catija Are these related?

Feeds

It's 10:34 PM for this user. They really need to get going, they have a thing early tomorrow. Are you sure you want to notify?

Kevin B

5:23 AM

hmm

Feeds

5:46 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/16/…

Meta Andrew T.

@Feeds Oneboxes, not bare links, are in demand among chat rooms

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

6:35 AM

@M.A.R. YES!!

while wondering what euphemism means, thinking about possible advantages of being a third egg, and hoping to one day hatch into something better

@Feeds two skills, one school, zero oneboxes

!!/coffee

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 brews a cup of Macchiato for @ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3

tripleee

10:24 AM

thanks, poof

M.A.R.

10:54 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I was bored so I Flack Overstow'd your meta profile.

> Work with the people of Meta". Also, in case I didn't say it alive. In a nutshell: Users with the title "Help us make some of the features that have been launched on Stack Overflow. This was once a big storm. Dark clouds covered the skies. The sun was minor and useless turns out to be rolled out to the rest is history. :) Since the question from January 8 which you deleted. I'll share several chat messages I've posted about Brian over the years. To add my $.02, I suggest changing the timestamp style to be chatting in a frozen room. If they happen to post a message, normally it t…

It seems to be a prophecy about how Stack Overflow will bring about the apocalypse and I'm all in for it.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:32 AM

@M.A.R. you what?? lol, how did you do that? How many posts thrown into the mixer? :D

Let's see what FOX can do...

in Shadow's Den, 21 secs ago, by FOX 9000

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Sadly it also shuffled the quote mark lol

> the the big Brian

Priceless!!

My turn to Flack Overstow you, @M.A.R. !

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Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

1:20 PM

@Rob see what I found. NFT of blue balls!

Feeds

2:04 PM

Congratulations are in order! These sites are leaving beta

Eira May on December 16, 2021

Today, 58 Stack Exchange sites that originated in Area 51 will lose their beta labels.

Luuklag

2:16 PM

@Feeds wow thats a massive amount

@Feeds Onebox is leaving beta, although still borked

Rob

2:26 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 They don't look very fungible.

user302202

2:50 PM

@Feeds Would be easier to list the sites that remain in beta.

user302202

Not sure if there are any, other than Cardano crypto thing.

user302202

Not to be confused with Robert Cartano.

Meta Andrew T.

@VoteDukakis I missed your API for this....

Wolgwang

Are bug and bug report same?

Meta Andrew T.

@Wolgwang context? is it about tagging?

Wolgwang

3:03 PM

> Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.

bug report refers to bug report tag?

Meta Andrew T.

in that case, it's about one of the 4 mandatory tags on Meta, bug.

so, yes, it's the same.

Wolgwang

If I raise a bug? I shouldn't use discussion tag?

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

@Wolgwang if you are posting a bug report, use the bug tag instead of the discussion tag.

Wolgwang

Ohk

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

3:39 PM

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Q: Congratulations to the 58 sites that just left Beta

This is an exciting day for all of us who work on community here, and for the communities that have given thousands of hours of their time to build sites on the Stack Exchange network. Today, we are excited to announce that 58 sites are bidding adieu to their Beta Statuses. The last time we did s...

discussion featured beta-sites announcements site-lifecycle

Kevin B

🚽

Wolgwang

4:10 PM

Some folks have found a way to trigger a hat...by console....Should I write a meta post?

Kevin B

a hat, or any hat

Wolgwang

@KevinB Manual key hat...

Kevin B

that doesn't mean anything to me

Wolgwang

a hat

Kevin B

if it's a hat that is triggerd by performing actions that are entirely client-side, it's not a secret that those actions could be done via the console (or short circuited entirely)

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

4:14 PM

Technically, with enough alt accounts, you could get rep cap (and a bunch of other ones too) via the console... right before your account gets nuked :D

Wolgwang

What is rep cap on MSE?

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

@Wolgwang 200

Wolgwang

;_;

Can I still reach rep cap?

Kevin B

wdym

you can always reach the rep cap

just post a popular opinion

peterh

4:30 PM

Does any beta site still exist?

Meta Andrew T.

@peterh yes

peterh

@MetaAndrewT. Thanks.

Meta Andrew T.

That said, I just noticed this proposal

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Cryptocurrency

Proposed Q&A site for anyone and everyone with questions about crypto. Not only for dev pros, also for curious amateurs.

Currently in definition.

Kevin B

that sounds awful

canon

4:54 PM

they made a whole site out of, "how do I quit vim?!?!one!eleven"

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

When using multiple banned tags in a post, the error message looks a bit unusual, are there any bug reports about that?

Journeyman Geek

@MetaAndrewT. tbh, I think its a great idea

@Wolgwang Sure

Spevacus

@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica Searched a bit but I didn't discover anything about the error message looking unusual, unless you're running into a situation like this one: meta.stackexchange.com/q/371843/622284 (which it seems like you're not)

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

@Spevacus that's not the error I was running into, the error I was running into is that when you try to ask a question, add the "a" tag, the "on" tag, and the "the" tag, instead of saying those three tags aren't allowed, it says "the 'a the on' tag isn't allowed", which is a bit confusing, since I don't have any tag named "a the on". Then again, there's no real reason to use multiple banned tags and encounter this unusual error message unless you're trying to break stuff, so it's probably trivial

Arjun

5:27 PM

ah, old times

M.A.R.

@canon such sites lack . . . vimsy

@Arjun when you prank'd that T-rex, it was hilarious!

@Wolgwang [discussion] is "misc.". If no other options fit, use [discussion].

Arjun

@M.A.R. i pranked what again O.O

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

@SPArcheon would you mind answering it then so I don't look like I'm trolling :P

SPArcheon

@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica You actually posted that? I though you were joking. Give me some time, will try to craft an answer.

Spevacus

5:55 PM

I present to you the magnum opus of bounty messages: meta.stackexchange.com/q/369294/622284

SPArcheon

7:02 PM

@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica and now, 17 questions left. At this speed, I should be done before 2030...

b_jonas

I just got Manual key on Meta SE.

I don't remember what I did other than visiting a page linked from main SE chat.

SPArcheon

@b_jonas seem related to copy&paste content, there is even a script running that tracks ctrl+v and such

rene

7:16 PM

→ 22 messages moved to Chimney

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

Two possible bugs related to winterbash: going to the activity page on a meta profile and the clicking on the hats prints you to the users profile page on the main site, and reloading a page causes the winterbash icon to come in a split-second later than the rest of the top-bar icons.

Spevacus

@SPArcheon Yep, I just randomly went and repeatedly copied some random text I highlighted in a random Q&A then repeatedly pasted it into an answer box. Left the site for awhile and came back to see a notification that I got the Manual key hat. Definitely to do with repeated copy + pasting.

Dunno exactly how much is required but

Kevin B

8:08 PM

my WB icon has always been slow to appear

every year, for... as long as we've had winterbash

I assume because it's implemented client-side, not directly as part of the nav and so it doesn't appear until the code that puts it there loads and runs

Spevacus

Yeah it always feels a little weird to have to have that delay

Kevin B

8:46 PM

the winterbash icon looks like a cube