Unanswered Questions
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Reminder: Don't close old questions as EOL if the release was supported when the question was posted
TL;DR: Don't cast EOL close votes on old questions if the release in question was supported at the time of posting.
Yes, this is a blatant dupe. Actually, it's also a dupe of this.
But... it seems a ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 is released and posts about it are no longer off-topic
Now that 22.04 is released, questions pertaining to it are no longer off-topic (due to the version) as of Thu Apr 21 17:09:48 UTC 2022; however, they may still be closed for other reasons. New 22.04 ...
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Make [architecture] a synonym of [cpu-architecture]
I propose to make architecture a synonym of cpu-architecture and retag all questions.
Although architecture is the bigger tag, it is not as unambiguous as cpu-architecture which I would favour as ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election
The 2016 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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would be possible to change the layout of suggested questions?
I find the layout of the "Questions that may already have your answer" a bit confusing. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to restyle it a bit.
This is the current layout with my notes:
This ...
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Best way to notify the moderators?
So in the wake of the UFC-spam attack last night, I (like many of you) used-up all of my flags trying to fight the onslaught of crap being posted on our site. At one point, I noticed my flag amount ...
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Any plans for a dedicated Ask Ubuntu Android app?
I was wondering if there are any plans to release a dedicated Ask Ubuntu app on Android.
I know of a few stack exchange apps but with the upcoming Ubuntu for Android will a Ask Ubuntu app follow?
I ...
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Need a canonical answer for repository versions
We need a canonical answer for "Why do the repositories not have the latest versions of software".
Anyone who can write one (if one does not already exist) will be rewarded with a +100 Rep bonus ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
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End of Support Notice: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) reached End of Standard Support on April 30, 2021
This will be enforced starting May 1, 2021.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their standard support period. These releases are no ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Thank you Stefano Palazzo!
I would like to thank Stefano Palazzo for their contribution to the Ask Ubuntu community and also for moderating Ask Ubuntu for 9 years.
Stefano was one of the longest-serving moderators in Ask Ubuntu ...
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Can [maintenance] be kept in good working order?*
*Credit to Eliah Kagan for the title
We have a tag maintenance which currently has 38 questions in it.
The questions relate to a miscellany of topics, since "maintenance" is a very broad category of ...
ZannaMod
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Please read complaints of rep 1 users more carefully
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My apologies to Karl Richter and Waltinator!
This post was not meant as an attack on you personally at all but more of a "call to arms" to the community at large to try and understand ...
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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