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5:39 AM
Anyone here unable to access SE sites, with the plain text "connection failure"?
@ArtOfCode "Too many requests" message?
I used to get those all the time when browsing the site through IE11 on Windows 8. Later found out that the browser makes an extra request every time a page is loaded, to load a nonexistent XML file that is supposed to be used for Start screen tiles, and devs weren't sending the appropriate header to stop the request.
 
 
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7:27 AM
status-kaboom
 
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9:51 AM
> IE11
found the problem
 
@ArtOfCode When part of those times, there's literally no way to install another browser (due to incompatible CPU architectures)...
 
 
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11:42 AM
@πάνταῥεῖ this is most likely trolling. You're wasting your time there.
(I already voted to delete.)
Think it's the same troll who pops once in a while, post something silly, and keeps arguing until the account is nuked again.
@rene hmm?
 
 
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12:45 PM
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance It was from this question. Comments were like a waterfall.
 
 
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2:45 PM
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Q: 2020 Community-a-thon: Increasing SE staff engagement with our sites and communities

Yaakov EllisAs was announced in the Q2 roadmap and subsequently discussed on MSE, we will be hosting an internal company Community-a-thon event in June. The exact dates are still to be decided, but it should start in the middle of the month and extend for four weeks. Some of the goals of the event: Impro...

 
Nicee. ;)
And of a sadder note, just ate the last olive. :(
(Pickled)
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance okay, fine. You do the dishes and walk the dogs ....
 
@rene I already do dishes and walk the dog. Since there's no dog, it's correct.
:D
 
2:54 PM
I'm always correct
 
Here it is... so empty... and it was so yummy....
 
3:10 PM
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance you ate them all?
 
3:25 PM
@rene yup. Not in one day though.
It lasted for whole week.
(Starting at Sunday)
batch of two: VSTO template, React. @rene @Glor @Art @Mith
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Oh. That is brave. I opened a bag of "drop toppers" today. Those won't last a week.
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance both gone
 
@rene this?
Is it chocolate?
287 gram of chocolate in one day is.... impressive. :P
@Mithical ty*2
 
@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance No, it is the only Dutch candy most foreigners don't like: licorice
 
@rene oh... more for you then. ;)
 
3:53 PM
@rene Plain licorice is popular in many places. OTOH, salty licorice flavoured with ammonium chloride isn't well-known outside the Netherlands & Nordic regions. :)
Salty liquorice, salmiak liquorice or salmiac liquorice, is a variety of liquorice flavoured with the ingredient "salmiak salt" (sal ammoniac; ammonium chloride), and is a common confectionery found in the Nordic countries, Benelux, and northern Germany. Salmiak salt gives salty liquorice an astringent, salty taste (hence the name); akin to that of tannins—a characteristic of red wines, which adds both bitterness and astringency to the flavour. Consuming salmiak liquorice can stimulate either a savoury or non-savoury palate and response. Anise oil can also be an additional main ingredient in salty...
 
:D
 
I quite like the taste. But my favourite cough mixture is senega & ammonia.
 
@rene Are you kidding? There's Dutch candy foreigners do like?
I thought all of your candy is a bit of an acquired taste.
At any rate, all of the ones I tried were not very pleasant for my tastes.
 
@terdon stroopwafels!
I think the Dutch are not so picky ... ;)
 
@rene Or the Dutch have better taste! I'm not making any value judgement here. All I know is that I've tried various types of Dutch candy and I couldn't eat any of them. I'm perfectly happy to admit that might be my foreigner's ignorance though! :)
And yes, stroopwafels are very much an exception. Fair point.
 
4:26 PM
@terdon Hehheh thinks of a Dutch joke
@PM2Ring that doesn't look delicious to me
I used to think rocks look delicious
 
 
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Q: Replace accept rate with citizenship level

Jeff AtwoodI see that accept rate has now been removed from display on questions. I think this is not a great solution for reasons that waffles explained well. Take it away waffles! On one hand accept rate bothers me a lot, it is a one-dimensional metric that does not really give me enough information a...

^^^ folks, I think above feature request may be worth escalating via status-review. For quite a while I thought it was just an unimportant theoretical exercise of Atwood, mind games and such. Changed my mind recently when I figured that having more reliable and explicit way to estimate user participation at main and meta could have helped to avoid harmful theories like one about 0.015% (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/343839).
Another angle (though more from a company perspective) is, when I learned about new users spike caused by dark mode I thought, maybe proposed "citizenship level" cou
 
7:14 PM
@gnat Disagree. Just because someone didn't post so well doesn't mean we should highlight their "flaws" publicly. Post bans are private for a reason.
 
@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog sorry I have no idea what you disagree with, I just don't see how this Atwood's proposal can be related to post bans. Can you please help me understand
 
7:35 PM
I'm glad someone else was confused by that.
 
@gnat We're still supposed to stick with the buckets outlined here + anything related to the ongoing work on the review queues for tags on old posts. I'm sorry to say that I think a feature request like that doesn't meet those criteria :/
 
8:02 PM
@Tinkeringbell I see, thanks! It seems to meet "has community support" but the way I laid it out fails on additional criteria required for older requests. I probably could make some effort and somehow bend it into "guidance on how the site works" but I won't do that. This is not the battle I'm willing to fight
@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog I think I got it, maybe you are confused about what Atwood refers saying it was not a great solution. He didn't mean to keep that rate, the not-great part referred to that accept rate was only removed and nothing was offered instead. Reading the proposal closer to the bottom makes it clear: "...propose replacing it with a citizenship percentage or level, based on the above criteria"
 

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