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Jack Douglas

you are welcome :)

निरंजन replying to Jack Douglas

Yayy! Thanks a lot

Jack Douglas

your vote history should be there too

Jack Douglas

and https://topanswers.xyz/user?id=5698&community=tex etc

Jack Douglas replying to निरंजन

yes you should already be able to see them there: https://topanswers.xyz/user?id=5698&community=meta

निरंजन replying to Jack Douglas

Thanks, what does merging mean? Will all my questions, answers appear on the new account?

Jack Douglas

you'll need to add your profile pic and email to your new account if you want to

Jack Douglas replying to निरंजन

I've merged the accounts - you can keep using your new account

निरंजन replying to Green Cat

:smile:

Green Cat

Thanks, I already discovered an answer for what I needed, but I'll see if tomorrow I log to ask this community proposal

निरंजन

Go to "Ask", select question type "New community proposal" and then wait for the response by admins.

निरंजन replying to Green Cat

You can post a community request.

Green Cat

Hello, I want to ask a question regarding Ruby on Rails. Is it possible here? I did not saw a "Ruby" tag, and putting it on the URL ( https://topanswers.xyz/ruby ) yields a PgSQL error...

निरंजन replying to Jack Douglas

Yes, it is `hi.`

Jack Douglas replying to निरंजन

there is an email address associated with that account, can you tell me the first 3 characters?

samcarter replying to निरंजन

You could change the name and image of your new account to match your previous one and use the little bell icon to subscribe to your previous questions and answers. This should give you basically the same experience as if having access to your old account.

निरंजन replying to Jack Douglas

Hello Jack, I unfortunately lost access to my account. I had saved a login-key, but it doesn't seem to work, maybe I regenerated the key some time ago and now it is not letting me log in. Can you please help? [This](https://topanswers.xyz/user?id=830&community=tex) is my old account.

Jack Douglas replying to Pax

of course - I completely forgot about RSS feeds :)

Pax replying to Jack Douglas

Not sure whether I subscribed through RSS feeds or through a built-in feature here. And yes, I did receive a notification. Don't know the answer off the top of my head though so I didn't answer. ^^"

Jack Douglas replying to Pax

How do you subscribe to a community? Did you get a notification for [this](https://topanswers.xyz/python?q=3306) new question?

Pax replying to hacknorris

I'm still subscribed to python TA in case there are questions I can answer in a reasonable amount of time. :)

AnonymousRabbit

Over at the TeX subsite we have a spambot it seems: https://topanswers.xyz/user?id=2893&community=tex

John K N

Happy New Year everybody. :-)

Jack Douglas

maybe it will again at some point

Jack Douglas replying to hacknorris

tex.ta is a lovely little community. The rest of TA is quiet, but SO isn't trying to destroy itself in new ways every day at the moment.

hacknorris

ok but service starts to be dead lol

Jack Douglas replying to samcarter

You are very welcome as always :) I hope the changes we are making don't cause you any disruption.

samcarter

Merry Christmas to everybody!  And a big thank you to the maintainers for keeping things running and giving us this wonderful platform!
  
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hacknorris

2 month old messages? wow, i left it in better state even than now XD

samcarter

Gitkon had a talk about community building and growing: https://youtu.be/rGxTFQ6NuoU?t=6296

Pax

Thanks, Monica for the feedback! I appreciate it.

Monica replying to Pax

I'm not good enough at SQL to answer it, but that looks like a solid question to me.  And since you're not trying to interpolate values or anything fancy like that, it *seems* like something that someone could answer.

Pax

Ugh. Sorry for the duplicated messages. 🙇🏻‍♀️ I can't seem to remove/edit one of the duplicated messages. Although it might just be on my screen, too.   
  
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Pax

Any suggestions on how to improve this question so I can receive any response? 🙈   
  
https://topanswers.xyz/databases?q=2094

Jack Douglas

we just need to make sure that users are encouraged to save their auth key somewhere before logging out

Jack Douglas replying to L.J.R.

Currently, yes — but we will be adding a logout button (https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=641)

L.J.R. replying to Jack Douglas

May I also ask why there is no "Log out" button? Do I have to clear browser cookies in order to log out?

L.J.R. replying to Jack Douglas

Thank you!

Jack Douglas replying to L.J.R.

I've tweaked the validation to allow a dot at the end

Jack Douglas

I think the idea was mainly to prevent usernames with spaces at the end - it doesn't seem necessary to prevent a dot there

Jack Douglas replying to L.J.R.

The current validation is `nname~'^[0-9[:alpha:]][-'' .0-9[:alpha:]]{1,25}[0-9[:alpha:]]$'`

L.J.R.

`ERROR: invalid username CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function raise_error(integer,text) line 1 at RAISE SQL function "change_name" statement 2`

L.J.R.

![name1.png](/image?hash=435c30116b1b6f313167db3e85ff8bfd73283fec07d05158a49dd760f695a087)

L.J.R.

Why can't I set my user name with a dot at the end?

Monica

Can't imagine. :-)

samcarter

Threaded comments on SO, I wonder where they got the idea from :) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/416851/staging-ground-workflow-question-details-actions (scroll down until the "Commenting" section)

Pax

Anyone here uses Grammarly? It doesn't seem to be working on text fields in the "Edit question" form.

Jack Douglas replying to Monica

Thanks for linking that @Monica

Monica

TA got a shout-out on Twitter from Shog: https://twitter.com/shog9/status/1481013586239447040