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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Meta Reduce the number of characters needed in description titles from fifteen

Oops! Thanks for catching this. I have a great many site settings available to tweak, but I don't seem to have one for this. I'll need to get a developer assist -- on our list now. I'm sorry fo...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Will incubator Q/A questions get moved to the site once it is launched?

Yes! In the incubator you're building an initial set of questions, not doing throwaway work. We'll move questions at launch and redirect from here (so people with the incubator URL aren't out of ...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Is digest authentication more secure than basic authentication over HTTPS?

Apache has modules for both digest authentication and basic authentication. I've seen recommendations to use digest authentication because it doesn't send the password in clear text. However, if ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How accurate are the browser usage statistics at caniuse.com?

I want to exclusively use webp images on my website. I haven't used a browser that doesn't support them in years. However caniuse.com reports that over 3% of users globally can't load them. If...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Image upload broken in Incubator Q&A

Sorry for the poorly-timed disruption! I've been told that this is due to a migration of S3 storage causing a caching problem that should clear up soon. (Sorry, I'm the messenger not the technica...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I draw a perfect circle on a square of plywood?

I'm working on a string-art project on a 3-ft square of plywood. It will have brass nails in a circle with different colors of string connecting the nails in a pattern. I'm trying to figure how I ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta $sitename in FAQ

Looks like the variables didn't get filled in in the proposals FAQ. I see $sitename several times in the copy:

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I draw a perfect circle on a square of plywood?

There's a few ways to do it: Use a compass. I know you said yours is too small, but you can buy a carpenty or woodworking compass that is much larger (foot or more). Tie a string to your pencil...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Is it a good idea to host my website at home?

It is usually not a good idea to do this. The advent of the Internet was revolutionary in that it allowed anyone with a computer and a modem to self-publish effortlessly. However, in the decades si...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A In which order should the brand name and article title appear in the page <title>?

I've read that for usability and SEO, the the <title> tags on your pages should contain both the article title and your brand name. I'm wondering which order is better for them? Which of th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the difference between content aggregation and content syndication

When I use content from other sites on my own website, I don't know if I should call that "content aggregation" or "content syndication." What are the definitions of "content aggregation" and "con...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A In which order should the brand name and article title appear in the page <title>?

For both SEO and usability, the brand name should go at the end of the title. SEO Search engines put more weight on the words at the beginning of the title. You might think that means your very ...

posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Should Steam be on topic for the Video Games site?

Steam by Valve is a popular game platform and storefront. Features of Steam include: Purchasing games Running games (in fact, using Steam is mandatory games purchased on Steam) Compatibility a...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Quiet dice on a budget

I'm designing a board game that involves rolling several dice simultaneously each turn (usually between 1 and 20), and in testing I found that this is surprisingly loud. I'm aiming to keep the gam...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A Are blue eggs special in Wingspan?

I played Wingspan at a convention recently and then bought a copy of the game. When unpacking it, I noticed that there was a large bag of mixed egg tokens and a smaller bag containing only blue eg...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Do you play with all the cards in a two-player game of Splendor?

I'm used to four-player games of Splendor, with high competition for the cheap, engine-building cards in tier 1. I've now played a couple of two-player games, and with cards much more plentiful, t...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Are questions about selling one's crafts allowed?

Should questions about selling one's crafts be on topic? It seems common for people in the crafts community to sell their creations online (on sites like Etsy) and offline (in fairs, festivals and...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Home Improvement versus a more general "home stuff" community?

Regarding scope overlaps: Outdoors currently accepts some of the topics proposed here, including questions about various outdoors equipment, gardening, accessibility (how do I visit place x gi...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A What's the least traumatic way to integrate resurrected historical humans into modern society?

Most recent first, and with a support structure. Somebody who died 3000 years ago will be baffled by today's world. Somebody who died last week probably won't be. So don't start with the ones fr...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

An alternative Maybe they did notice the war had ended, but still chose not to leave the safety of their underground society. Over time, this alternative reason for staying could drift into the si...

posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Can I ask Worldbuilding questions here?

I moved your question to Meta. Yes, you can ask worldbuilding questions because there is a proposal for that community. Use the worldbuilding tag on your questions to tie them to the proposal. The...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Is time reverse possible in Minecraft?

You cannot properly do this in vanilla Minecraft, but there may be mods for it. However, you can cheat a little bit. One day is 24 000 ticks, so you can use /time add 23999 to make it seem like the...

posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Meta How can Worldbuilding successfully support creative exploration?

Building on this answer, maybe we add a category -- maybe called "Workshop" -- with Wiki posts, where the object is to organize and bring together all the aspects of a larger project like, in this ...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Allowed types of questions for Worldbuilding

When a question is open, people can post answers. If the question is not clear, and then gets adjusted during several rounds of discussion while people are answering, it's awfully hard to sort out...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Would it make sense for an organization that has existed for centuries not remember its own origins

It probably depends a lot on what you mean for an "organization" to not remember its origins. For example, can I believe that most (pardon the dismissive term) employees don't know how they came a...

posted 6mo ago by John C‭

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