Currently, to switch from a main site to its meta (and vice versa), one needs to search for the other site in the side bar. I think we can make the process more convenient of the switch button is included in the drop down on the question lists.
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Currently, the only way I know of to visit a site's meta via the Android app (1.0.16) is to pin its meta to my sites in the sidebar. It's a really good thing I can do this for the metas I visit frequently, and I don't want to see it go, but it's also inconvenient if it's the only way to reach a meta.  Could we have a sidebar item that takes us to the meta site for whatever SE site we currently have open? (Or, if we're already in their meta, to their main site)  To illustrate my point, here's a before &amp; after:
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In comments here on Meta SE I can use the magic link [so] to link to .  Consequently, I would have expected the magic link [meta.so] to link to  but that magic link does not seem to be available.  Can it be added, please?
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tl;dr  Due to the special nature of Meta and the high rate of "lost souls", should we try out the Ask a Question Wizard here on Meta Stack Exchange too?  General idea  In case anyone doesn't know yet, . It guides new users towards writing better questions.  I think that such a question wizard would be useful on Meta Stack Exchange too, for three main reasons:   . There are four types of questions on Meta, each represented by the different required tags: , ,  and . Especially bug reports can often be split into a certain structure (what's wrong, how to reproduce, why I think it's wrong, examples). The same holds true for feature requests. Such a structure is ideal for a question wizard. Quite a few users  and . While the Meta community is well prepared to deal with these posts quickly, they lead to an less-than-ideal first impression by the new users and they distract the community from more important issues. Site-specific questions are often off-topic. This  since nowhere is it hinted at in the help pages (and there are a lot of old, not-yet-closed SO-specific questions from a prior era of this site) and can lead to unnecessary drama. If we add an honeypot into the wizard to catch this case (and ideally redirect them to the proper meta site), we could prevent this.   As Sonic said, there's an  new users need to read and confirm. However this doesn't really prove effective right now and we might need to try stronger tools (e.g. question wizard).  Therefore I think that we should test the Ask Question Wizard here on Meta too.  Implementation details (help welcome)  I think the wizard should have six main entry points:   I want to discuss a specific post or action from any Stack Exchange site. (-> honeypot, redirects to the appropriate per-site meta) I have a question regarding the use of Stack Exchange sites (-> support mode) I think I found a bug while using the Stack Exchange sites  (-> bug mode) I have an idea for improving the Stack Exchange sites  (-> feature request mode) I have a discussion I want to start about Stack Exchange communities or their rules  (-> discussion mode) I have some other (e.g. programming) question  (-> honeypot, redirects to )   Coming from these choices, the user would either be redirected to a landing page explaining, why this is not the right community and offering some alternative choices or they would follow the guided assistant.  For 1. the user might be asked on which site the post/action is. Maybe the system could show the three sites where the user was recently active/has the highest reputation on.  support mode would ask the user for these details:   what do you want to achieve? what have you tried? what is your current problem?   bug mode would ask the user for these details:   bug description how to reproduce the problem why do you think that this is wrong? (possibly) examples   feature request mode would ask the user for these details:   what is your goal? how do you think could this be achieved? why will the community benefit from this change? (possibly) details   discussion mode would ask the user for these details:   which rule do you want to propose/clarify (optionally) examples/why is this rule required?   Note: the above implementation details probably require some revision. Feel free to edit/suggest improvements for both wording and details.
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I wanted to switch to  in the handy dandy site switcher in the new top bar. Entering "cook" brings up nothing:     ... so I have to remember that the boutique title of the site is "Seasoned Advice":     ... in which case the site switcher also thinks that maybe I was thinking of heading over to  to see what's up. So the site switcher searches site names and descriptions, but not subdomains. This is unexpected behavior - I believe it should search all three.
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I really like the new sidebar. With the new top bar eliminating the &quot;Hot Questions&quot; area there, I think this is the perfect place for it. One-click access to time-wasting questions about topics I may or may not have an interest in. Seriously, it's a procrastinator's dream come true. The only suggestion I can add is to extend it. I assume the &quot;hot&quot; algorithm can spit out more than 12 questions, and since we now have a huge amount of room for it(without being restricted to a weird drop-down scrollbox), why not show more? If there's something else planned for that spot, disregard. At a minimum, the title could link to the , as ShaWizDowArd suggested in comments. I've been using SE for a couple years now, and I've never seen that page, so it would add visibility there.    Update: They added a link! Just noticed this, I'm pretty sure it wasn't there yesterday. When you click it, it loads 12 more. At the moment, the link disappears once clicked, so you can see a total of 24 here now. Not a link to the full list, but better:
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I'm currently helping out on . One of the most valuable things on new beta sites, especially private/early public betas, is Meta participation - see :  Treat Meta Questions Like Gold It’s not unusual for your meta site to receive significantly less traffic than the main site. The problems begin when you meta starts to get ignored by the community and ignored by the moderators. It is particularly disturbing when users reach out in meta and starts talking about improving the site or asking for help… only to be ignored; No follow-up, only deafening silence  Because of this, Diamond mods get a notification in their inbox for each new question on their Meta, helping ensure that each meta post is addressed. However, wouldn't it be great if Diamond mods weren't the only ones that could do this? The post does say that the community needs to be seeing these questions too. As an involved user, I would really like to be notified of these new questions - it would increase the good I could do the site. How about this?:  Of course, it would be opt-in, not opt-out, and per-site. A feature like this would greatly improve the good that enthusiastic site-builders can do for the site, and would, most likely, increase the overall chances of a site's success.
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How do I report that a question should be moved to a different site (from stackoverflow.com to superuser.com, in example)?
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I remember Jeff saying, when they announced Server Fault, that it was going to be possible to move questions between sites. I'd find that feature very nice as since then I've found at least 10 questions on either site that belonged to the other one.
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Honestly, navigation through Area 51 is a bit confusing and seems to be much different from the other SE sites.    The feature that is very lacking is the footer with all the sites you are subscribed to so that a user can easily return to a different SE site. This one really bugs me.  Can this be easily fixed?  Also, unlike all the other sites there is no "meta" site to add comments specifically about that site.    Again Area 51 seems out of sync with the other SE sites.
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Possible Duplicate:             At the moment, when you vote to close a question when it's off-topic, you can only vote to move it to one of these sites:  meta.stackoverflow.com   serverfault.com   superuser.com   webmasters.stackexchange.com   programmers.stackexchange.com     But sometimes the question is really a good one, but it would fit some other Stack&nbsp;Exchange site. And new users rarely know the difference. For example:  http://codereview.stackexchange.com   http://math.stackexchange.com http://scicomp.stackexchange.com http://cstheory.stackexchange.com http://android.stackexchange.com http://webapps.stackexchange.com   Anyway, I think giving the whole range of Stack&nbsp;Exchange sites in the off-topic option will help reduce the load on Stack&nbsp;Overflow and direct people to right sites.
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I just joined Sports, and I decided to take a look on Sports Meta. I clicked on my profile there. This is part of what I saw:     Yet the profile shouldn't indicate that it is, in theory. . .  This seems to be a bug.
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So, the latest question here on Meta prompted me to do a quick search for . Everything looked all fine and dandy until I switched to the votes tab, where I was prompted with this nice book of text on my screen:           What did I break? o.o I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be presented with that much text.
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I can imagine that it is a little bit hard if you're not a native Japanese or Russian speaker to figure out where those new sites are and what they are about. Putting them under uncategorized is not what those new sites deserve.     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   I understand from previous incidents  that  end up in this category for a while.    Can we make sure that new sites get properly categorized?
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There is a lot of irritation and whining from newbies when their suggestions get downvoted because they don't understand that votes have a different meaning here.   This is unnecessary, and I'm absolutely sure is one of the contributing factors why some people turn away from Meta after first contact, and never return.  To fix this, when a user asks their first question here, it should be pointed out in big bold letters that voting follows different rules here than on the mother site.  Something like     Note that voting on Meta.stackoverflow.com works differently from the other Stack Exchange sites. Voting is used as an expression of agreement or disagreement on contributions here, rather than to point out a lack of quality or helpfulness. Do not be too concerned if you receive downvotes - it is possible that members of the community are simply  disagreeing with what your contribution is suggesting.
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Note: I am aware that the site switcher  of the page. This isn't a case of me clicking the wrong icon, it's a case of the site-switcher itself being a link to stackexchange.com (which is  behaviour, and ) for no good reason.      My browser can be pretty slow sometimes, and I often find myself in cases where I want to use the site-switcher . When I do, the site-switcher button acts like a normal link to stackexchange.com.  This is almost exactly never where I want to go when I click that button; pretty much every time I'm clicking on the site-switcher, it's because I want to access&hellip;   &hellip;the meta for the site I'm currently on &hellip;the chat for the site I'm currently on &hellip;one of the other sites I frequently use   These are all things that the site-switcher is great at doing. I'm happy, you're happy, everyone's happy. , on the other hand, doesn't really give me convenient access to any site metas, any chat rooms, or even really any other sites.  Sure, sometimes maybe I want to go to check out the hot questions feed, but if I was going to do that there's now a big "Stack Exchange" logo on the top left of the page that takes me right there (and much more intuitively). Having the site-switcher point there by default might've made sense in the old top-bar before there was a dedicated link, but right now it's just redundant and ultimately only exists to cause pain and frustration for all involved.  If you must have that icon point to somewhere, maybe a page that basically duplicates the site-switcher functionality (Even  would be better; at least that's actually "A list of all 171 Stack Exchange sites" like the mouseover text indicates).  Otherwise, I'd be pretty happy if that button just does nothing at all until the magic site-switching menu code I'm actually expecting actually loads up (which is already how the inbox, achievements and help icons behave when their javascript doesn't load).
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I'm thinking that adding options to choose from what sites the  would fetch would be useful (with the available choosing of meta sub-sites).
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The original multicollider™ wouldn't even open with a keyboard, but the new one can be selected and opened with enter. However you can't actually select any of the options within it with the keyboard; it just opens and you can look at it.  The main problem here is that the link to the site Main / Meta is now in there and are no longer links in the header itself (the same with chat too, although that is present further down the page - but you'd never be able to get to it with keyboard-alone, unless you are a masochist and want to tab through everything down to the site footer).  This means people using MSO (And any other Stack Exchange site that this header will display on) with keyboard-only can't access the Main / Meta site without typing in the URL itself. This is a step backwards for these users.