Questions tagged [hot-questions]
Hot Network Questions in the right-hand sidebar, the “hot” tab on each site, and on stackexchange.com.
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Arqade questions in the Hot Network Questions sidebar usually are not useful
On Arqade, questions about a certain game are not required to include the name of the game in the title. Currently, there are three Arqade questions in the Hot Network Questions sidebar:
The problem ...
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Did the policy on foreign languages in the HNQ change or is this a bug?
According to this eleven year old post the question below should not be on the HNQ:
an etwas (D) festhalten vs. sich an etwas (D) festhalten
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Why do almost all my questions on Law and Politics become Hot Network Questions?
I don't ask questions very often, I'm mostly an answerer (especially on Stack Overflow), commenter, and editor.
But when I do ask questions on Law.SE or Politics.SE, it seems like they almost always ...
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How to view the stackexchange.com main page on Android?
I use the stackexchange.com main page a lot to browse hot network questions, but unlike all the other sites of the network, for whatever reason the main page is not mobile optimized and pretty much ...
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How many chatrooms use a feed from glitch.me and can we rewrite those?
I created the SE HNQ Feeds for Chat that was asked for in How can I add Hot Network Questions (HNQ) to a chat room feed?
The app was fully developed on Glitch and subsequentially hosted there as well. ...
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Does the HNQ system expose users to viewpoints that they otherwise wouldn't have come across?
The "echo chamber" has been recognized as a problem in my country, and regulators are working with social media platforms trying to tackle this.
Here on SE, I can read a lot of interesting ...
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Why do some questions appear more than once when browsing hot network questions?
I have https://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot opened in a browser tab, with 50 per page selected.
I see the same question on page 1 and on page 2. It this a bug?
Bottom of page 1:
Top of page 2:
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How did this post become a Hot Network Question seemingly four times in a row?
If you check the history of this question, you'll see this:
The timestamps are all the same, reading "2025-02-18 05.46.23Z", so I'm guessing this is and tagging this as a bug.
(It's not a ...
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Please add an event for when a question is removed from the HNQ
Currently, when a question is added to the HNQ (Hot Network Questions), an event is created in the post's history. However (unless it was manually removed by a moderator), no event exists for when a ...
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How to configure stackexchange.com so I see only hot questions from forums I've subscribed to? [duplicate]
I'd like to avoid seeing questions from forums other than those I have subscribed to when I log into stackexchange.com
The following screenshot shows what i see on login @ 13:25 6 Sept 2024:
There ...
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"more hot questions" link is broken
When I visit a question, and then try to use the 'more hot questions' link in the sidebar, it doesn't work as advertised. Hovering over it shows me the URL of the post I'm currently on, and clicking ...
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Change "Hot Network Questions" to "Trending Network Questions"?
The word Hot in Hot Network Questions feels like it carries a sexual connotation.
Should the phrase Hot Network Questions be changed to Trending Network Questions?
Do you think the latter is more ...
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How should I go about retrieving the date of when a question became/was no longer hot with SEDE?
I am currently making a SEDE query to determine which questions from a specific user have made it onto the Hot Network Questions list and when. While I can get the specific questions, I am unable to ...
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Site icons all cut off/incorrectly cropped in Hot Network Questions list
As you can see from the image below, the site icons in the Hot Network Questions list are all cut off at the top, with some extra content at the bottom. This issue appears to be occurring specifically ...
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Could there be a self-edit threshold that precludes a question from getting on the HNQ list?
I had to check out this question this morning in my moderatorial duties, and I was a little grieved to see it hit the HNQ at some point after it was asked, but certainly after the OP had edited it ...
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