That just about does it for time today. Thanks everyone for coming! We’ll digest this feedback and post on meta in the coming days with the plan for Town Halls going forward.
Thanks everyone for putting up with this for three long months. This concludes the 6 sessions I arbitrarily decided on for the run; there'll be a hiatus of some sort before we resume these chats.
At the very least, it's nice to have somewhere to interact with staff where they can be silly... If the only place we ever see you is on meta posts, you can seem a bit scary.
@Shog9 One comment on the voting thing. If you could limit a user downvoting the same user for, say 5 mins it would solve a problem I've been seeing personally
There's nothing to stop you from downvoting someone once a day. I'm not sure that's easily solved. But two votes back-to-back might be a bit more fixable
I think it should check for relation/interaction (comments, answer, cv etc) between users and vote, that way you would find votes for users and not vote's for content. But I guess we can come up with some algo too.
@JonEricson I have 8 questions on SO. These are always on questions and always a minute or so apart. Never happened on answers AFAIK, probably due to the -1
@Catija Yeah but I got crazy with -1,-1,-1, +1,+1 every day and since I often comment it's better that user don't get upset (unlike), the post will be deleted anyway
@Catija ooh I'm not afraid of dv, I can answer something and get my points back, I'm more lets try to get new user to understand and comply ;) (hence try to make'em delete, avoid review queue ecc) and if no dv they are still in good mod...
@JonEricson Yeah... so the help center on SO is dead, which apparently means that all hell will begin breaking loose because no one will know what's on topic.
I really wish the alert noise in here was the alert noise everywhere... all of the other chat servers have such annoying sounds but the one in here is like the Star Trek TNG door chirp.
@Catija yeah, that happens a lot more often lately, reloading fixes it. Not sure if it bugs at the CDN provider or at the loadbalancer within the SE network
Recently, I've posted a question with ... (three dots in a row) at the end of the question title. To my surprise, it was removed. I tried re-editing it into it, but it just got removed again.
Trying to edit in ...
Result: No ... in question title
What and why exactly is preventing me from ...
well, help center stuff is partly my bad and partly some other failure we couldn't exactly identify where removing a redis key didn't propagate correctly to all web servers
Or at least when the chat search function is down on one, it's not down on all... but I think that's just a side effect. Pretty sure the division wasn't necessarily intentional, just how the site grew.
It seems like most of my questions on this meta, regardless of the subject, receive comments asking for specific examples of the issue I'm trying to address. I understand that concrete examples can clarify some issues, but in many cases these comments feel more like:
Links or it didn't happen...
I've been burned in the past with half-assed meta answers... you really have to consider multiple angles. No one is perfect, though. There are always concerns that you've not considered.
@Elias Sure. The problem in this case is the user is asking about something negative and doesn't want to draw attention to the action of otherwise good members of the community... I absolutely think they're necessary but I need a way to explain that it's not about the people, it's about the actions.
I like to customize things I use frequently.
I like the site design for SO more than any other. Is it possible for me to use the CSS styles for SO throughout the network of sites using an extension like Stylish for Chrome?
So if that's possible, how can I do that?
I'm already using it to cha...
@NVZ I'm well aware that you can apply styles across sites: Top-navigation choices: A script I wrote to change the new top-navigation on all SE sites where it's enabled.
@NVZ NOTE: If you had asked the question: "Where can I find / where can I download the CSS for Stack Overflow pages?", that would have been an answerable question. Although, you should be able to get the CSS for almost any page/site by using various capabilities in your browser. One way is to use the browser's capability to "Save page as". You can then manually inspect all the resources downloaded with the page (which may, or may not, include ones dynamically loaded by JavaScript).
@hairboat (sorry for pinging after the chat) I'm in the AEST timezone, and so far I've missed all of the town hall chats due to them being in the middle of the night for me. This one was probably the best so far, but it was still at 4:30 in the morning. In the future, would it be possible to cater for the people living in the Asia/Pacific/AU region when you schedule the town hall chats? Thanks