Unanswered Questions
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gamedev tag is useless
I see some questions tagged as gamedev. A similar issue was addressed on Stack Overflow Meta a while back.
Recommendation: This tag is useless and should never be used, since everything on this Game ...
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Can we automatically convert tabs to spaces when users input code?
Obviously this is personal preference when you're creating code on your own machine. However, since adding tabs to a text box is not (as far as I know) natively supported in most browsers. Three or ...
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Do you need game testers? We can help
If you've got a game that's ready for testing (or will be within the next few weeks), we'd like to help you find some testers. We're going to try out our potential Developer/Tester matchup program in ...
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Link clarity in code tags
Sometimes it is useful to link directly to documentation for a specific function in your questions/answers. And in many cases, one will often want to put the function name in `` tags, like this: ...
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Gamedev Birthday Celebration
Did you know that Game Development's birthday was on October 21st? Congratulations!
How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of great Q&A, we'd like ...
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Gamedev causing a memory leak?
Lately I've been noticing very high RAM usage from Chrome. A little investigation points to Gamedev.stackexchange.com being the offending website:
This is found by using Chrome's Task Manager, by ...
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Can we customize our maintenance page?
I guess this is more a question for the moderators or higher-ups in Stack Exchange...
There was some downtime a few minutes ago, so I was directed to this boring offline page. So then I moved on to ...
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Please review properly!
The activity tab on some frequent reviewers' profiles suggests that they've hit the No Action Needed button for every review task for at least the past 2 months.
Such behaviour is harmful to the ...
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Bug: FAQ navigation bar links scroll to wrong place
On the FAQ page, there is a navigation bar on the right, showing all the different sections of the FAQ, for quick navigation.
In that list, the following two links scroll the user to the wrong ...
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Why can I not link directly to FAQ anchors?
Our FAQ has some useful stuff, but it doesn't look like I can actually link people to that useful stuff. Instead I have to link them to the FAQ main page and ask them to search themselves, which is ...
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Link Colors for Visited and Non-Visited Links too Similar
I have been browsing gamedev for a while and at first noticed that the color differences between a clicked link and a non-clicked link were rather similar. I attributed this to my poor eyesight ...
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Washing Gamedev T-shirt
Some of you have received your swag packages. Grats!
I just want to stress that, when you wash your gamedev.se t-shirt, PLEASE make sure you turn it inside out, use cold water and non-bleach ...
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Can community moderators be given permission to enable software-enforced blacklisting of tags?
In the "useless tags" thread we've identified several tags that we'd like to avoid, such as design. However nothing prevents users from actually using those blacklisted tags, which creates something ...
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Math related game programming question
I'm trying to make a game engine in C++ using openGL and I've been stuck trying to create an importer for Collada Documents. My big issue is that the collada documents use math slightly more advanced ...

