Unanswered Questions
146 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Should there be a new tag "legacy-bios"?
I'd like to propose the creation of the tag "legacy-bios", as I believe it was relevant to a question I just asked. It seems like it could be relevant to a forum dedicated to an OS. And there is ...
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Should we have a "Culture Tour"?
The Welcome Tour takes new users through the mechanics of the SE sites.
Should we have an additional tour that explains key behaviours that are expected of the AskUbuntu community?
Things like:
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Text on Ask Ubuntu overwrites other text
This occurred today and at other times. Anyone else experienced it?
It has occured on 16.04 and 18.04.(Ubuntu Mate)
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Preformatted text horizontal scrolling - bug or feature?
AskUbuntu help recommend to style pre-formatted text and console output with
#four spaces
But sometimes it results in scrolling text. See this question as an example. The problematic line (as ...
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MS Azure ads not showing correctly in the sidebar
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I've noticed something strange. Every ad for Azure that comes up in the sidebar on Ask Ubuntu is cut off on the right side, taking some text ...
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Why is the newsletter subscription link hard to find?
I think the process to subscribe for the newsletter is tedious. From what i have done you need to go to your user's page, preferences, manage newsletter subscription....
However there is an occasional ...
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Display review queue length in the actual review page
I would like to see how many pending reviews are left in the queue while I review. For long queues like the Close votes this makes no difference, but it would be nice to know in short queues whether I ...
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Can we make user icons on review tests be random?
I was doing some reviews of first posts earlier when I got this question as a test (with a random username, of course):
What is the difference between using '+' (plus) and ';' (...
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Make numeric only/composed of just numbers tags that should only be created by moderators
Everyone knows I hate with burning passion version specific tags. The reasons are explained here and elsewhere, but that's not what I'm going to ask about.
Today, I again removed the 14.04.1 for ...
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Show a notification count in the title
At present, the Ask Ubuntu questions page changes the title to add a count of questions with new activity since the page was loaded. I think it'd be a lot more, if not just as much, useful to show a ...
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Shouldn't the removal of an answer be visible in the timeline for everyone?
Background: I commented on a possibly dangerous command in an answer to
https://askubuntu.com/questions/310358/no-such-file-or-directory-error-when-trying-to-use-chmod/310364#310364
The answer was ...
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Usercard Formatting Sometimes Clipped
I noticed in a AU post today that a usercard was clipped on the right, cutting off the user's bronze-badges count:
Of course this clipping does not affect all usercards; most I have seen look fine.
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Can we add a rEFInd tag?
REFInd is a commonly used boot manager developed by Rod Smith. I think that it should be added due to its eminence. I can't add it myself because I don't have the rep. I'd like if someone added the ...
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Raising the Answer Text Limit
Today I was working on one of the answers (A special guide) and I was limited again by the 30K size for answers. The example mentioned is this:
How do I install the Nvidia drivers?
Which I needed to ...
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Tag synonym request: [preferences] -> [settings]
I think settings and preferences should be synonyms.
"Settings" is a more general term that applies to driver settings, program settings, system settings, etc. "Preferences" is a term that usually ...
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