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Rubberduck is growing out of SE chat

At one point in time, the VBA Rubberducking chat was CR's most active chat room. Here we are almost a whole decade later, and Rubberduck as a project is entering a new phase as work on version 3.0 is ...
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Where's the auto-move-to-chat link?

The auto-chat link is not appearing in this very, very long comments section (12 comments): https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/261592/25834 (Note: A diamond moderator has since moved the comments ...
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Announcement: New chat room CRCQR

As some of the regulars at the SE Code Review site already noticed we have a new chat room to request and discuss question closures: SE Code Review Close Questions room I've setup that room due to ...
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Should the "new questions" feed be made into a drop-down feed instead of one-boxing feed?

To quote @Vogel612 in chat today, with regards to CaptainObvious, the new questions feed in the main chat: so many bot posts... at this point I think we should consider turning CaptainObvious into ...
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Is 2nd Monitor too strict with which conversations are deemed okay?

Quite a while ago, an incident occurred in The 2nd Monitor where some users continued a loud conversation whilst 'site business' (a user asking about site scope) was happening. When they were told to ...
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Help Desk Chatroom

11 days ago, I put forward a proposal to the moderators for a Help Desk chatroom, which we would link to the Stack Overflow comments Duga posts, and to the potentially off-topic questions on Code ...
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New design cache issues in chat

After a few days with the new design, some other users and I still experienced that the icons when clicking persons in the chat room experienced seeing the old icons. I snagged the followed image: ...
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Can I keep my chat with darkness in it?

I prefer a dark color-scheme for almost all my activities online, including the 2nd monitor. For SE chats I have a special extension installed, that inverts colors and has some other gimmicks. ...
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Some old icons are still showing

In the Hot Network Questions, the old icon is still shown. In addition, in Chat, the old icon is shown on the user card as well.
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An answer feed in The 2nd Monitor

Currently in The 2nd Monitor, there is a "recent questions" feed that is displayed by our very own Captain Obvious. Would it be a good idea to have a "recent answers" feed, too?
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Welcome to The 2nd Monitor!

So, you have found your way to the Code Review main chat room, The 2nd Monitor, perhaps for one of these reasons: You were invited or "pinged" by a site moderator or other user to discuss a post on ...
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The CRonicles: Story of a Stack

Something pretty cool was born earlier today. There was a chat discussion involving new reviewers reviewees, about the site's graduation and the History of Code Review. Mat's Mug: people can read the ...
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Should we request an "invite to chat" alert in The 2nd Monitor from Duga?

could we have Duga let us know here in chat when someone invites a user to chat? I think it would be a good idea, but this affects The 2nd Monitor and Code Review as a community, so I think it should ...
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Suspended from chat without warning

As I've been trying out something I have suggested in my own post here, I found myself suspended from the chat already. Yes, I did flag messages of a specific user a few times, I believe they were ...
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How much idle chatter do we tolerate in The 2nd Monitor?

Related but not a duplicate: How far off-topic can we get in 'the 2nd monitor'? Today was a complicated day in the history of The 2nd Monitor. On one side there appears to be consensus something ...
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Are WordPress articles/blogs supposed to onebox in chat?

I could have sworn I've seen WP posts oneboxed in chat (or maybe not?)... but every time I post a WordPress URL it's not oneboxing. Seeing that pasting ...
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What's on and off topic in The 2nd Monitor chat room?

Exactly what is considered strictly off-topic there? Anyone can assume the obvious: NSFW (Not Safe for Work) are off topic, and should be flagged. Anything else?
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Blue Cheese Monster feature requests

Malachi and I, we broke our heads on how we can disambiguate the Blue Cheese Monster, especially in respect to the Tool vs. Toy question raised by rolfl. So here goes: What features does this tool ...
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Chat bot feature requests

Notice: project was disbanded I am the half-robot side of syb0rg that will be posting the recent answers of Code Review to the CR Answers chatroom. This is simply a place where you can post your ...
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What are the Stack Exchange limits on chatbots?

For weekend-challenge #4, I posted a suggestion about creating an IRC bot, and suggesting that some people could deviate from this and create an automated bot to respond to certain messages in the ...
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What should be the name of our main chatroom?

Our main chat room is currently called Code Review General Room, with "General discussion about Code Review." for a description. I propose The Zombie Hunters' Lounge, but I'd like the ...
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How far off-topic can we get in the Code Review General Chat Room?

What is considered off-limits in chat?
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Why don't people on Code Review use the SE chat system?

Here is the old room which was frozen due to inactivity. Here is the new room which noone is ever in? Why is that? This has been sort of asked before, but it was not completely fleshed out? I ...
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Role of chat on Code Review

I was briefly talking to @TryPyPy in chat about the use of chat on Code Review and he agreed to take it to Meta. It might offer some advantages (faster feedback/iterations, easier to communicate) and ...
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