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What were the categories for the 2019 PF Member Awards?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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BB code=rich --- weird behaviour

  • BvU
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Are trolls a prevalent thing on Physics Forums?

  • Cha0t1c
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How to search for some topic in a specific subforum?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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How to number and refer to formulas on Physics Forums

  • Ad VanderVen
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Complaint Why was my water hose and resistor puzzle removed as homework?

  • Warp
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2019 PF Member Awards coming soon

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Bug One notification on the bell still not cleared

  • symbolipoint
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Which forum to choose for a post?

  • mcastillo356
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Maximum time for writing a new thread

  • mcastillo356
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Announcement Help clean up unanswered threads in the workshop forums

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Bug Conversation page/post count bug

  • Ibix
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Suggestion Increase the number of options in poll?

  • DennisN
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Does Physics Forums use IPv6 preferentially?

  • Jeff Root
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Announcement Mentor NascentOxygen retires

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Bug Minor format changes that propagate to later paragraphs

  • collinsmark
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Suggestion Should we add a thank you reaction option for posts on our website?

  • Ibix
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Associating Google account with PF

  • Wrichik Basu
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How to get gold back to my account

  • wolram
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How to search for posts of mine from before 2008?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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New User Seeking Physics Feedback and Proper Forum Use

  • itsok
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Accept ideas that are not in the form of specific questions

  • Grossglockner
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When" logged out" and back to website- log in, my name and PW come up

  • Point Conception
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Why is there no psychology subforum?

  • AndromedaRXJ
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Announcement Contest to rename "PF Lounge" category

  • Greg Bernhardt
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How to delete one's own question? Mentors?

  • nomadreid
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Some moments about moderation :)

  • Z0dCHiY8
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Physics Forums mentor and my professor knew each other from college

  • member 428835
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Suggestion Hot Threads linking to closed thread

  • member 656954
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Can I recover a post I deleted?

  • epenguin
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Bug Cleared cookies in Firefox - now no text window for reply or post

  • Stephen Tashi
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Why don't we have a Theomodynamics and Statistical Mechanics section

  • Prathyush
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Why does Physics Forums use a privacy policy?

  • Lewis Goudy
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Having "agree" as like-option?

  • Filip Larsen
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Suggestion Provide Explanations for Gratuitous Changes in Stats?

  • Bystander
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Additional Profile Fields?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Reaction tag icons not displaying correctly

  • DaveC426913
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What is the preferred guidance to respond and react to old threads?

  • Klystron
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Is there a bug affecting links in PMs on PF?

  • DaveC426913
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Complaint How to check if you banned or not and why?

  • frostysh
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Replace Broken links with archived sources

  • Manasan3010
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Suggestion Matrix calculator tool for large determinants

  • fresh_42
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Post Question on Emergence - Forum

  • Twodogs
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How to make fraction symbols in plain text

  • PGaccount
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Suggestion Siunitx package for MathJax

  • vela
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Bug Image degradation (compression?) in copied threads

  • DennisN
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Wayback Machine has 1864 snapshots of PF from March 2001

  • Wrichik Basu
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Bug Push notifications for alerts that have already been read

  • Wrichik Basu
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Suggestion Put the "Preview" option just below the Edit window

  • Stephen Tashi
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Hi I posted a new theory and it seems to be gone.

  • JamesTownsend
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Just passed my PhD with no corrections - a big thanks to PhysicsForums

  • rwooduk
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What happen if I exceed my warning count?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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Does physics forums pay tribute to every dead user?

  • Benjamin_harsh
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The repeating summary line in posts

  • davenn
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Announcement Embedding Google Sheets Now Available

  • Greg Bernhardt
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What makes a source valid in blogging?

  • member659127
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Suggestion Request To Improve The Post History Feature

  • JC2000
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Should Climate Change Have Its Own Subforum in Earth Sciences?

  • Sherwood Botsford
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Raymond George Vickson Sept 19 1942- May 13 2019

  • Ray Vickson
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No reason that these should give me Alerts

  • symbolipoint
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Announcement New Aerospace and Interstellar Engineering forum created

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Complaint Problem with posting a new thread

  • Buzz Bloom
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Login Issues: Workaround for Cache Software Bug

  • Greg Bernhardt
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The toggle button for each section means what?

  • symbolipoint
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Why Is My Response Flagged as "Spam Like"?

  • Yaya
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An alert notification without a reason

  • symbolipoint
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Announcement Profile Covers for Gold Members and Advisors

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Why Am I Getting a Security Error When Logging In?

  • Kqwert
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How do I deactivate my account and remove my old posts?

  • Deleted member 74205
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Login error message but can still post on other pages

  • symbolipoint
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Announcement Unanswered threads feature restored in PF 4.0

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Why Isn't HTML Coding Working in IE11 Anymore?

  • davenn
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The New Physics Categories Are Puzzling To Me

  • ZapperZ
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Improving and standardizing user trophies

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Bug What happened to the PF App?

  • rede96
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Got an Alert saying post was moved, to a black hole?

  • Tom.G
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PF5: 30 Days of Progress - Incredible Features & Polish

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Where is the member count displayed on Physics Forums?

  • phinds
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How about a "Debunk this" section

  • SeekingProtection
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Complaint Placement of LogOut link position

  • symbolipoint
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How is the colour of the avatar in PF is decided?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Printing threads for offline study?

  • exmarine
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Suggestion Replying directly to the moderation team through alerts

  • Wrichik Basu
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Suggest softer message for closed threads

  • Tom.G
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Why is Post Under Moderation?

  • Questionable Thought
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Does PhysicsForums have an official mobile app?

  • reddvoid
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Settings for Different Devices?

  • WWGD
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What is push in physics?

  • Bystander
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Announcement PF5 release planned for late March with improved mobile site

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Where is the Insights ToC?

  • Grinkle
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Google Plus shutting down - PF

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Where has the "physics news" link has gone to?

  • DrDu
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MathJax rendering issues on PF5

  • Greg Bernhardt
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How do I control text size when composing a post?

  • symbolipoint
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Many pages of "Watched" Threads

  • symbolipoint
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Suggestion Liking threads overall, separate from post likes

  • Grinkle
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Are All the Joke Threads Now Called 'Collection of Jokes'?

  • BillTre
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Should we have an "open problems" section in this forum?

  • jonjacson
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Complaint Change default MathJax renderer in Insights to Common HTML

  • Wrichik Basu
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