Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Congratulations Aníbal Sánchez
Congratulations on your appointment to the Joomla! Community Leadership Team
https://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/3071-new-members-for-community-leadership-team-2016.html
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Joomla Documentation public beta
So Stackoverflow's Documentation has recently gone into a public beta state.
The Joomla tag has been created so we need to get a few more people to commit to it:
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Help Section: What topics can I ask about here?
We are getting many questions that are not in the scope of this website.
For example: https://joomla.stackexchange.com/questions/17009/advice-on-setting-up-joomla-for-client-management-and-...
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Joomla 3.5 Feedback Survey
Maybe off-topic, but wanted to share with everyone.
I guess feedback from users will help Joomla improve.
The JUX team has a new survey specifically for Joomla 3.5. You can take the survey here: ...
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JSE Github Organisation
So I've noticed having read back at a lot of answers, both my own and other, that we sometimes provide code that could be turned into a full plugin.
An example being the answer I wrote a few minutes ...
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SO Mods deleted my 'JSE comments', so I improved 'joomla' tags in return
So... this is what happened...
Between 2016-02-26 and 2016-03-17 I have posted 97 comments to the most of new Stack Overflow Qs tagged 'joomla', as my humble response to well received Q here How to ...
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What do we do with questions that are old and have no answers
It's one of those days where I'm in the mood for a spring clean-up on JSE.
Lets say there are some questions that are 6 months old, don't have any answers and don't have any upvotes. What action ...
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How to make people aware of "Joomla.stackexchange.com"?
672 days gone and we are still running in Beta.
I have seen many other users asking questions on SO but not on JSE.
It would be great if we could get those users on JSE so that we could improve ...
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What should I do if I see same question?
I have seen same question but on different stackExchange.
What should I do now to eliminate same/repeated question?
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Thank you for massive upvoting of my answers
This is not a question, I'm just saying thanks. Last night someone performed massive upvoting of 13 of my answers (most of them already accepted), thus giving me nice boost of 130 points.
I cannot ...
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Congratulations on Some Milestones
We have reached a milestone this week: congratulations to Lodder on 500 answers!
Congratulations also to johanpw and FFrewin on ~ 300 answers each.
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Why close the "Why does my table always disarrange in live?" question?
Why should this question be closed as off topic?
Why does my table always disarrange in live?
I have reworded the question to emphasise the Joomla related part which seems to have been drowned out ...
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Do we want to participate in the Winter Bash 2015?
Same question as last year. Please do not mark it as a duplicate :P.
I have just got an invitation, asking if our site if we want to participate.
In a nutshell (quoting from the email):
Winter ...
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Joomla Stackoverflow Team
I've created a new Team (new beta feature on SO) for us Joomla users:
https://stackoverflow.com/teams/128/joomla/join?auth=749c5b06-f018-4e96-baa0-b06b0bf79dbf
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Why haven't I received any answer on my question?
What makes a good question on Joomla Stack Exchange?
How can I help people answer my question?
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Sample Questions - Joomla Support Request Template
Following my older question Do we need to create sample questions?,
I discovered this Joomla Support Request Template from Brian Teeman's blog. I think we could use this, or a similar version that may ...
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Important Notice for Joomla 3.4.4
This is off topic but important!
Anyone that manages any sites on Joomla 3.4.4, please update to 3.4.5 if you haven't already, as this fixes a major security vulnerability.
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Questions Per Day - Needs work
There are 90 days left before Public Beta period is end but the 'Question per day' is still not healthy. What will happen if this situation continues when the Public Beta day ends?
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Spamming the tag wiki
Not sure if any of your have noticed a certain user trying to edit tag wikis with spam. I've rejected both of them, however I'm going to assume that more more may be submitted.
How are we to flag a ...
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Working with Joomla: Useful Tools for Developers and Users
How about creating a wiki post, where we can list handful tools/applications we are using, when working/developing with Joomla, that make our life easier ?
From desktop apps, VM software, to php ...
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A new Joomla service - Site building on www.joomla.com.
I was messing around today and I had the idea to try what I would get at www.joomla.com.
Then I discovered this new service
I have never ever before heard of the Joomla.com.
Thought you would also ...
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Do we need to create sample questions?
I see more and more unclear questions with vague description and little information provided. Questions that is impossible to understand, or at the very best, some magic is required to guess what the ...
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Old questions are still not marked as solved - What should be the action here?
While surfing, I came up with following question:
How to restrict access to custom component views?
Which was asked asked 5 months ago. We've received lot of good answers over this question. But any ...
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Auto comments on questions/answers
I was having a look at the StackApps and found an Auto Comment script which also comes as a Chrome and Firefox extension.
I've installed this myself and used the pre-defined responses that were put ...
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Pull request for Joomla
Just though I'd mention that my request was accepted and will be put into Joomla 3.4.2 for JSE:
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/6868
Yay
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I'm not sure about this answer
Just saw something in the review queue as a late answer:
https://joomla.stackexchange.com/a/9669/168
I clicked "No action needed" as it's still a valid answer, however it's simply incorrect.
What ...
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Let's get critical: Apr 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Joomla Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will ...
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Preparing for K2 questions
Just a little heads up.
I've been sent the following:
If anyone has a K2 site with user profiles enabled and user registration enabled, watch out epic spam bombs coming nearly 5,000 user profiels ...
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Well, it's been a year
...and 1 day.
Joomla Stack Exchange has come quite far and is getting much more popular.
Questions per day
There was a period where we were on 11 per day, which I was hoping would continue to stay as ...
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Should poor questions that have good answers be left open on JSE?
My question is regarding the review queue on JSE. I've come across a poor question that has (what I think is) a good answer. I agree with the close vote- the question is not written well and seems too ...
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Joomla magazine article for JSE
A couple of weeks ago, I submitted an issue to the Joomla CMS on Github asking the PLT if adding a menu item for JSE to the Help dropdown in the Joomla backend would be allowed. Some were ok with this,...
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What do we do with....?
I've noticed the last couple of days, some seriously broad (holding back from the actual word I want to use) questions have been asked.
These question are ones that will most likely never get an ...
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Standard responses to poor questions
The Joomla StackExchange has been growing steadily to the point that we seem to be getting a fair amount of poor questions. I appreciate all the answers provided on this site, so I hope that we can ...
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PHP Coding style and methods
I've become a bit of pain when it comes to code styling these days. Things like:
Ensuring indents are used with tabs and aligned correctly
Ensuring control structure opening and closing brackets are ...
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How could we help propagating the EOL of Joomla 2.5
You may know that Joomla 2.5 is EOL with 2.5.28 that will be released shortly.
There is a marketing campain planed for this, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/joomla-dev-cms/f7Waw1KlFdE
So ...
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What's the general approach to good questions that are buried on SE?
I find/see many great questions on SE that are dated, unanswered, or basically abandoned, and find myself wanting to ask them on JSE, but stop short thinking it's some sort of plagerism, lol. It's ...
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SO [joomla tag] vs JSE
Have just been looking through a load of question on JSE and on the joomla tag on Stackoverflow and cannot get over the quality of question on SO.
It's getting worse by the day which makes me glad we ...
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JoomlArt Notice (IMPORTANT)
Thought I would put this here as it's not really suitable for JSE but possibly for meta.
If any of you have an account on JoomlArt or know anyone that does, please have a read of the following ...
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What's with all the language switcher module questions?
There have been 3 of basically the same questions regarding Joomla's language switcher module.
Each question is being asked by a different user, however is it the same person?
Can the IP addresses ...
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Do we want to participate in the Winter Bash 2014?
I have just got an invitation, asking if our site if we want to participate.
In a nutshell (quoting from the email):
Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site
that ...
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Getting out of BETA
So, we've been solidly "okay" for about a week on all of our categories in Area 51. What's the process to get out? Does SE evaluate on their own? Do we just wait? I don't know.
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About Update, Upgrade, Migration Tag
I was reviewing the Tags recently - came across the Update, Upgrade and Migration, and Migrate.
Upgrade has no entry yet.
Update has the following excerpt:
This tag is for questions about updating ...
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Custom Off-Topic Close Reason Approval Process: Too specific or impossible to answer or to replicate
Considering the discussion on "Unanswered questions reminder" and some flags on such questions, I am proposing a more clear close reason for questions that cannot be answered:
Too specific or ...
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Unanswered questions reminder
Just a reminder to everyone.
Sometimes questions get forgotten about or slip past our view on a day to day basis.
There are currently 41 unanswered questions I've flagged the ones I deemed are next ...
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Great news regarding JSE
Great news!
George Wilson was talking to Jessica Dunbar at the Joomla World Conference and it turns out Joomla will be endorsing Joomla Stack Exchange. This will mean references to the site on the ...
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Design limitations
I've been trying to find the blog post/answer written somewhere on Stack Exchange regarding the design of new website that have passed the beta phased but cannot find it.
Does anyone know the ...
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Let's get critical: Oct 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Joomla Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will ...
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6-month Status Update
Just thought I'd take a minute to highlight where we are with the Joomla Stack Exchange site after 6 months. (I believe the launch was around the 22nd of April.)
This is actually the first time I've ...
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