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I was disappointed to find out that this is a problem: June 2023 Data Dump is missing We need to make sure we preserve our community contributions for the next generation, does anyone have the bandw …

Ok so I've spent a few days doing hardcore cleaning and we have a problem with comments and people misusing them. People who are too lazy to write a real answer so they write a half finished one th …

The little bubble is part of the design guidelines, check it out here: http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/brand-communication-guide/ (archive link for the PDF on Wayback Machine)

Since it would be a waste of time cleaning up most of this stuff since it's too localized here are my proposals. Shouldn't be allowed: Bug report-style problems, as they should be filed as bugs so th …

"ubuntu+1" is the developmental release of Ubuntu, so it changes every day so it can cause people to have lots of problems and ask for help. So for example people asking 11.04 (aka natty) questions mo …

Maybe a generic edit to the existing 404 PPA question or a new one explaining that it's impossible for us to know when a third party will provide packages might be a good catch all?

During our beta I created a video to kind of explain how the site works. I'd like to continue expanding on that and create other videos for the site if people want to watch to see how they work. Ple …

How do I ask questions on Ask Ubuntu This tutorial is how to ask a good question right away so your question is high quality before you post it to the site. (Ugh, audio stops working 9 minutes in, I'l …

IMO we should remove the accepted answer, from How can I use Netflix on Ubuntu?. The 2nd most-voted answer is clearly more correct and supported by Google/Netflix. Right now the only supported way t …

New method: After you install pro-forma comments, attempt to comment on a question and press the "auto" button. Down the very bottom of the screen there are a couple of options. You can click "remote …

I just voted to close this Debian question. There are a bunch of Debian questions that are open though; when is it appropriate to close a Debian question?

I wanted to blog/tweet our list of unanswered questions, which appear to be sorted by vote. However I noticed that given the amount of users on this site that the amount of voting on the questions isn …

I think if you just changed the title of the question to "Why does launching an application via gksu not work?" or similar and then keep the body as an example would make the question immediately more …

See the announcement: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2016-November/000215.html and subsequent pages: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ke …

I like to point to this page when referring to PPAs: Are PPA's safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out for? I put this warning everytime I add a PPA to an answer, not b …