I have been on this service for a while and it always bothered me that StackExchange does not allow to search/filter the site list. The amount of sites is great, but finding something is really difficult. Does anyone know if there is a particular reason SE does not implement this feature? In my opinion this would be a great improvement to this page UX.  Implementation example:
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I went to  to see if a specific site existed. But with 101 sites it takes quite a while to manually scan them all, and hope you don't miss any one of them. Could we get a search box on  so that we could search for the specific sites we're looking for?
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I often use Stack Exchange sites from my smartphone. It works great, but I always have to switch to full version to see view counts of a question. Can you please add it? There's plenty of space on question page for it to place. I request community to suggest a location.
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I am aware    but I ask this regarding SE-2.0 sites, as the example I will take gaming:  Both answers on the question  make perfect sense to me, i.e. on the one hand this might overuse the tagging system but on the other hand it would help a lot for filtering.  Therefore I suggest a system which, in this case, would internally store the platforms to which a tag is relevant and   if a question is tagged with one of these platforms, nothing special will happen and the question is to be considered platform specific (e.g. a bug which only appears on the PS3 version) if the question is not tagged with a platform, the only result will be that the tag filter mechanism works a bit different compared to what would happen if the question was (invisibly) tagged with all platform tags:   If the invisible tagging is definite on interesting or ignore (i.e. there is not at least one ignored and one interesting tag) the usual mechanism works. if the tagging is ambiguous (i.e. contains both interesting and ignored tags), no filtering happens at all    The actually attributed tags must of course override this behaviour. That way questions about a game one likes but which is available for a platform one doesn't care about will still be highlighted unless specifically tagged with that platform, but no additional tags have to be used to filter a game which is only available on ignored platforms.  This can of course easily be extended to other sites, e.g. the  may be interesting both general and for c++ but totally uninteresting if the question is only about a JavaScript implementation.  I am only unsure whether search should include those hidden tags, too.
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Isn't StackExchange a network to build a knowledge base for Google? Or to help people?  Yes, it is. So why is there the Programming Puzzles &amp; Code Golf website? What problems are solved there? What questions are asked there?  None.  Therefore, I think Programming Puzzles &amp; Code Golf doesn't fit into the philosophy of StackExchange. It should or   get it's own domain be removed (though I wouldn't do that)   I would love to hear your thoughts on this!
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First it would be nice to search through the questions I've asked on SO to find a particular question.  Second, it would also be nice if the main search function at the top of the page had an "advanced search" option whereby you could specify things like tags and whether you're looking for answers or questions or both and perhaps specify a date-range.
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inbookmarks:mine was fixed for searching within a particular Stack Exchange site, but often I find myself wanting to search for a question I favorited/bookmarked, but not remembering which site it was on when it could conceivably have been on a number of different sites. On the cross-site search at  it does not work, presumably because we have different user ids on each site. Is there a way it could be made to work? Note that this request is for searching, not just viewing, so it's not a duplicate of . Just viewing is not very helpful when you have a huge volume of bookmarks across Stack Exchange sites.
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Would it be possible to update the StackExchange button drop-down to include scalable vector graphics (SVG) favicons for each site?    I didn't notice any mention of this during the  and  phases.
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Today I came across a situation where I knew that I'd answered another similar question some time ago, but couldn't remember on which Stack Exchange site it was. I ended up doing multiple searches on several different Stack Exchange sites before giving up and just doing the research again - answering the question from scratch.  As such, I wonder if it would be possible to implement  on the  mechanism.  If this had already been implemented then it would have given me a single place to try out the different sets of keywords that I thought might help me find my answer.  Note, this question goes one step further than  and I can see that there might be implementation issues with it due to issues raised , but couldn't the OpenID for the Stack Exchange account be used to filter the questions and answers from other Stack Exchange sites?
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I am working on a Web application, and I was looking for a reasonable implementation for one of its backend services. I wanted to ask the community if they have done something similar and if so how does their implementation work?  This is a subjective and possibly open-ended question, hence Stack&nbsp;Overflow is not the right place to ask this question.  Is there a Stack&nbsp;Exchange community in which one can ask suchlike questions?
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The "items per page" stat is being remembered permanently (cross device, attached to our account, not via a cookie) in the search results of any site.  However, in the , this stat is being reset whenever searching again, choosing the items per page affects only that single search:        I assume this is because stackexachange.com is not attached to ordinary account behind the scenes, so can't use the same server side cache. This can be bypassed by using a different cache probably, or use the network profile if possible.  Can it be done/fixed?
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On every other site on Stack Exchange I can click on the site's title and be taken directly to the questions...     Except Meta.stackexchange.com   Here I actually have to click on the word "Questions" as there is no link active on the Meta title and logo.  Now I agree this isn't a big deal, however as I typically visit stack exchange pages up to a couple of hundred times a day, this one that doesn't fit spoils my flow. I am pretty certain it used to work.  It works for me in Firefox, and Safari on iPad, but even closing and reopening Chrome doesn't fix the issue.  Chrome is on Version 53.0.2785.116
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It seems to me that two of the most helpful pages for introducing new visitors to the StackExchange network and methodology are the respective  and  pages of any StackExchange site.    However, if I go to  (where I have not registered), these two links are nowhere to be found!    No about or help here.  Oh, wait, here they are, relegated to the footer along with the privacy policy and advertising info links.    And we all know how often people look at a website's footer.  I mean, when was the last time you saw that footer?  If users had more of an opportunity to see the well-organized and important information on those pages before they were prompted to register for an account, we would see an improvement in the quality of posts and participation by new users.  I propose that these links be made more visible to new visitors who don't yet have a profile so they can get a better understanding of the website before being prompted to register for it.  Personally, I think that placing them next to "sign up" and "login" would be great, but increasing their visibility at all would be an improvement.
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How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines? It's really amazing; if I post a question, it'll show up in Google's search results within 15-30 minutes!  What are the tricks? sitemap.xml? Or, any other good methods?  Help me, and others too, if anyone knows a good technique/method.
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I think its good if we have one user account for all the SE sites(i.e. a StackExchange Profile).   Profile page should facilitate (from account owners pov):   List all the SE sites we have subscribed and we can visit the site account by clicking on the link. A summarized status of each account (e.g. whether there are new replies and comments) List SE sites we have not subscribed and instant subscription capability to any SE site.  Facility for grouping and using separate names.(It seams, some users don't like the idea of one profile . If a user doesn't want others to see all his/her accounts, then user can use separate names per group or account and set-up visibility settings so only the accounts with a similar screen names will be shown together. Yet account owner can manage them at one place )   Having a SE profile page will allow users to have separate accounts for each site, still managing them will be much easier. I am not suggesting to remove the profile pages we have at SE Q&amp;A sites, I think separate profiles should be there since each site serves a different cause. Adding a link on each SE Q&amp;A profile page, which will direct the user to SE main profile will be sufficient.  In the prevailing system visiting a SE site, which we don't use often, is a 3 step process. Lets say one wants to visit SE TeX but he/she has bookmarked StackOverflow only. Then steps should be StackOverflow &gt; accounts &gt; SE TeX. But if we have a Profile page at StackExchange, then it will be a 2 step process SE Profile &gt; SE TeX.  If we have a SE site that we visit very often then we can bookmark it in our computer. But bookmarking all the SE sites we have signed up is pretty messy thing to do. So if SE provides a "StackExchagne Profile" page we simply can bookmark our profile page instead of bookmarking everything.  From StackExchange's point of view, enabling grouping facility will reduce the size of the user database.  Similar ideas were discussed in following pages, but I opened a different Question since the facilities I am requesting are different to them.   (1)  (2)  (3)
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I tried   (search term site:stackoverflow.com) OR (search term site:superuser.com) OR (search term site:stackexchange.com) search term site:stackoverflow.com,superuser.com,stackexchange.com search term site:stackoverflow.com site:superuser.com site:stackexchange.com   None of them works. What is the correct way to search?
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Took a few seconds to find how to get back to chat on SO. I quickly found that it was hiding inside the StackExchange drop down along with Blog and Log out. Having these links inside the "site switcher" seems a tad out of place and calls for concern personally.   Any ideas for an alternative to these objects location?
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I am an Movies &amp; TV SE user.  Why there is no donation page on Stack Exchange?   With donations, the SE communities could make the site design even more beautiful.