How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript? has a community effort lock on it, preventing any new answers from being added. I can see why this probably happened, as it seems to be a highly-visited question with many answers that are just restating one another. But this is also preventing new information from being added. For example, I had put together a way to do substring checks in a i18n-friendly way (e.g. it doesn't split surrogate pairs in the larger string when che...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
It looks like How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript? was made into a community wiki post, and most of its answers have been deleted, causing only 3 of the most useful ones to remain. But I feel like a lot of useful knowledge has been lost in the process. Yes, myString.includes(mySubString) is now the official way to check for a substring in a string in JavaScript, but there's still value in other answers that are now deleted. Examples: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Spring Boot @Async methods not inheriting trace context from @Scheduled parent method - how to propagate traceId and have a new spanId? was closed as a duplicate of How to propagate traceId to other threads in one transaction for Spring Boot 3.x along with Micrometer The closed question has 2 requirements: to propagate trace ID to an @Async method at the same time to have a new span ID in the @Async method The requirements The question's 1st requirement overlaps with duplicate target, while t...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
The Upcoming opinion-based questions should not be visible on the home page for users that disabled experiments: We have officially launched this experiment to ten percent of all users on Stack Overflow who have not opted out of experiments --- Even though I have disabled experiments for months, I still get the opinion based questions in my home feed:| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Here's my question: Can Postman manage mTLS negotiation using client cert from Windows keystore? What is Postman if not a tool for developers and development? How can a tool have 12 thousand questions and its own tag but not be something we can ask about here? Per Wikipedia (emphasis mine): Postman is an Indian-origin global software company that offers an API platform for developers to design, build, test, and collaborate on APIs.| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Since a week ago, replying to comments in my own answers stopped working. When you click the Reply button, this is the output I get into the javascript console: Uncaught TypeError: ft.Z_ is not a function kt https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/4128.en.js?v=09748ad6405b:1 O https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/4128.en.js?v=09748ad6405b:1 s https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/svelte.en.js?v=64781980a124:1 N https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/svelte.en.js?v=64781980a124:1...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I was looking at the Blaze page of Charcoal's web site for Stack Overflow. I saw this: It looks like a typical "not-an-answer" answer. But actually it is a reply to one of these new opinion based questions, currently being tested: I assume this happened because the reply has the same URL structure as an answer. See that /a/ segment in the following example URL from the above screenshot (specifically, from the "share" link): https://stackoverflow.com/a/79802194 (I guess these new replies are b...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Update: October 29, 2025 Questions are a bit tricky to locate since we don't have a the question labeling supported. For the time being I will keep this table updated daily so interested community members can find them easier. Question Title (As of October 29) How to load a website (HTML) and click a button? optional prerequisites in gnu make How to step out chain of promises How to integrate JaCoCo into a spring boot OCI image to measure E2E testing code coverage? How to retain CrewAI Short-...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Update October 27th, 2025 We have officially launched this experiment to ten percent of all users on Stack Overflow who have not opted out of experiments. Couple of things to note: We have moved the staff chat mentioned at the bottom of the post to November 4th at 9 AM EST. Again, please check back before that date and time for the link. We wanted to give the community at least a week from when the experiment launched before having the chat. For any examples of opinion-based questions that yo...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
While asking a question, I just noticed that when using non-ASCII characters it a post title each character is counted as multiple characters, rather than a single one, towards the post title limit. For example, when this post used the Unicode title of "โญ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ฑ ๐พ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ญ๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ค ๐ถ๐ ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ ๐ ฒ๐ ท๐ ฐ๐๐ ฐ๐ ฒ๐๐ ด๐๐", the title was counted as 79 characters (which I determined by seeing how many lett...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Why isn't providing a minimal tag-wiki mandatory, when new tags are created? There's a number of unclear tags around like the one mentioned in this question. Many of them may be even have been crea...| Meta Stack Overflow
I posted this answer yesterday. Today I see it has 2 upvotes but in the top-right achievements/reputation notification, it only showed +10 instead of +20. I checked my rep history on my profile (TIL this is publicly viewable) and that also shows only +10. So the bug may be one or more of: Upvote miscount: It's actually just one upvote, not two Rep notification error: It's actually +20 but shows +10 Rep history error: It's actually got two +10 events but showing only one of them Total rep sum ...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Posting this as a dedicated feature request based on staff recommendation here. Please differentiate somehow between free votes and 'real' votes. Preferably, this would be visible when looking at the post score either expanded (1000+ reputation privilege) and/or in the timeline. At the very least, this should be differentiated/discernible directly for post authors (and mods) when a vote on their post is a 'free' vote or not, somewhere. The lack of transparency about the 'realness' of the vote...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I just came across a (now deleted) answer during review, that upon first glance looked like a bunch of word vomit or spam. However, upon reading through it twice, I realized, that the author actually was offering a solution to the problem described in the question, however bad their English might be. I am not a subject expert, but from what I could tell, the solution described was not yet mentioned in other answers available, and the question was still somewhat recent making this more relevan...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I have noticed several reputation one single sentence questions go straight into normal space on Stack Overflow without first passing through Staging Ground recently. This one is a particularly bad example: how to include bits/stdc++.h in visual studio 2026 insiders To save you going to look here is the text: how to include bits/stdc++.h in visual studio 2026 insiders i want to use the bits library because my projects are starting to crash from using all the libraries above and couts dont wor...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I am often looking at "Linked" topics on the right to go through duplicate chains or whatever when searching for answers to my or someone's else problem (yes, I am checking for duplicates before posting my answers). It's kind of important to me. Now I know why I hate this new "Community Activity" tab. Because it's on top. And it's useless to me. 0 value. Absolute 0. I also hate and never read stackoverflow blogs. Those are also on top. 0 value. Other news (mainly announcements) I need once a ...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I've flagged this post (screenshot for <10K) for moderator for both being AI slop, and the account for being an obvious advertisement. (As a side note I also VTC the question, since it's request for documentation) My flag text was: The answer reads like AI slop, but the whole account seems to be just spam for some kind of shop (see their profile) This was declined with Thank you for raising this flag. I'm declining it since the question here is about Etsy and as far as I can see right now, th...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Please add a warning somewhere in this "Edit list" modal to inform the user that all their saved items in the list will be unsaved when deleting the list (or revert back to "All saves" or "For later", which is currently not the case) Currently there is no confirmation or warning about this.| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Is it currently possible to have Python snippets on Stack Overflow? Python is getting increasingly popular and is also currently the most tagged language in Stack Overflow. It has got 1177 questions| Meta Stack Overflow
TL;DR: We are running an experiment to lower the commenting reputation requirement from 50 to 2. Our goal is to make commenting more accessible to those who can appropriately use it within that 2-49| Meta Stack Overflow
Today, we are following up on our announcement regarding the topic of including opinion-based questions on Stack Overflow. The Community Enablement team would like to share some details about our design perspective, what we hope to measure, and the specifics of our upcoming experiment, which will soon be launching on Stack Overflow to a small number of users in the coming days. This project aims to create a designated space for technical discussions, best practices, tooling recommendations, a...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I came across this question VBA opening 365 Workbook, need Editable, only can get ReadOnly, which seemed to be a very obvious duplicate of SharePoint File opening as Read Only. The only problem is that the original question has no answers, albeit that it has a comment clearly showing what was wrong. Is it OK in this case to Close Vote as a duplicate, even though the duplicate technically has no answers?| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
With the launch of Coding Challenges taking the place of Discussions and the recent announcement that discussion-style questions are coming to Stack Overflow, has the sun set on Discussionsโข? I note the discussions-space tag has already been past-tensed.| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I ask this question in continuation of this question. Lately I've been trying to figure out exactly what makes a good answer on Stack Overflow. If I write carefully, using proper punctuation, grammar, and structure, my answer will sometimes be flagged or commented on as one generated by large language models, but if I write more carelessly or skip some corrections, my post will be at risk of being downvoted due to poor writing quality. I sometimes use Google Translate, which automatically add...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I wanted to improve some posts on the site. Can I ask for help here? Because sometimes I get downvote without any comments and I can't figure it out Like this.| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
The language-lawyer tag has the excerpt: For questions about the intricacies of formal or authoritative specifications of programming languages. My edit adding this tag to a question about icalendar was reverted, because iCalendar isn't a programming language. Per the letter of the tag wiki, this is correct: programming-languaginess is a spectrum, and iCal โ being less languagey than HTML โ probably doesn't qualify. However, in practice the tag's used for lawyering about a variety of thin...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
As we continue to explore ways to enhance engagement and lower barriers to participation within our comment system, we are now moving to a significant phase: testing a lower reputation requirement ...| Meta Stack Overflow
This question of mine: Thunderbird equivalent of browser.runtime.getURL()? was closed since it "needs details or clarity". But - it was clear enough for someone to answer it; and no comment was made regarding what's unclear or what details are missing. So, I would like to ask for either a reopen or a clarification-on-the-lack-of-clarity; but also to call out the action of closing for this reason without leaving a comment allowing the poster to (supposedly) improve the question.| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
While handling flags, I came across this answer post where in the past ~3 months, several 1-rep users have commented code dumps onto the top answer posts. The question has many views and is protect...| Meta Stack Overflow
I have been a user and fan of StackOverflow now for over 15 years; in this time I have accessed and found so many solutions in so many areas of programming, I cannot begin to recount. Over the years, however, I have come upon more and more outdated and incorrect solutions, as the software has moved on, evolving and changing sometimes overnight, making the answers and solutions provided by StackOverflow member developers obsolete. Please do not take this the wrong way - I am NOT slamming this ...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
I figured out an issue that I was about to ask in question Android Studio: Adding @+id through Design GUI Generates Errors, since I couldn't find any answers online. But while my answer resolves the| Meta Stack Overflow
It might surprise you to know that the person credited with being the most influential individual in the recovery of Japan's industrial economy after the second world war (and the subsequent "| Meta Stack Overflow
Allow uploading of Live Photos How can I make this question better?| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Update December 2020 This month Three.js is scheduled to go ES6 module support only. No more support for <script> tags for all the loaders/controls/postprocessing etc. Three.js is fairly popu...| Meta Stack Overflow
Allow uploading of Live Photos How can I make this question better?| Meta Stack Overflow
Over the last couple years, many of us have shifted our debugging and learning from Stack Overflow to AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. Thatโs made problem-solving faster but itโs also made the collective knowledge disappear into private chats. This is a problem because AI rarely gets things right on the first try. Real progress comes through iteration ie a back-and-forth process that is time-consuming but full of valuable insights. If we could share those problem-solving paths,...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
The title of the popular unanswered question can overflow its container as seen in this screenshot: Older question with the same issue Older question with the same issue --- Originally posted as an answer but got requested to also post it as a separate question.| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
This quarter, the Community Enablement team is focused on researching the asking experience. This research has led the team to consider the types of questions allowed on Stack Overflow and how to expand the process to accommodate more types of questions. Over the next few months, one of our key focuses will be centered on finding a home for a wider range of technical questions on Stack Overflow. We've observed that many valuable questions are closed as 'opinion-based' because they don't fit o...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
All links on Stack Overflow open in the current browser tab; Questions, Hot Meta Posts, Users, tags and even The Overflow Blog. However the 'Popular unanswered question' in the new Community activity block has the following HTML: <a class="s-link fs-body3" target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79779760">Throwing result size exceptions for UPDATE or DELETE statements using jOOQ</a> Why is this the only 'internal' link that opens in a new tab? (Using target="_blank") ---| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
The question has already passed the automated checks:| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Update June 30th, 2025: A new design is available to view on this update post which removes user avatars from the sidebar design. --- Back in May, we shared an experiment to add a live activity panel to the site with you. On that prior post, we shared our reasoning for running this experiment: New users frequently report to us that they view Stack Overflow as a slow place to get answers to problems that they face, [and] that it feels hard to get seen by someone who can answer. In reality, mos...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Update on October 16, 2025: The Free votes Experiment has now graduated, allowing thousands more Stack Overflow users to contribute to the platform by voting on content. We get roughly 1,000 - 1,200 free upvotes per day, as well as 100 - 200 free downvotes. We are excited to continue supporting this feature. Update on September 15, 2025: The Free Votes experiment has now been rolled out to 100% of eligible users on Stack Overflow. Update on Tuesday September 9, 2025: Free votes have begun to ...| Recent Questions - Meta Stack Overflow
New users frequently report to us that they view Stack Overflow as a slow place to get answers to problems that they face. Their perceptions are often rooted in the belief that many posts go unansw...| Meta Stack Overflow
TL;DR โ On March 31, 2022, we will discontinue Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story. This includes all job listings, saved searches, applications, messages, recommended job matches, job ads, dev...| Meta Stack Overflow
We will stop accepting contributions to Documentation on August 8 2017 On behalf of everyone who worked on Documentation, I want to thank all 15,451 users who contributed. We particularly want to| Meta Stack Overflow
