I have almost learned to mentally filter out the annoying reddish strip at the top of the screen, but whenever I fail, I can't help remarking to myself that I will not like to see "lower level MO": if anything, I'd like to see MO that is higher level. If you want to advertise new sites, perhaps, just posting a neutral message like "Two new stackexchange sites [address] and [address] have opened", on the front page only, would have been better.
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Presumably the "related questions" sidebar (on individual question pages) is more useful than it is clutter. I think I've clicked through it fruitfully on occasion and I don't remember ever being annoyed by it. It also pushes the "How to write math" sidebar down, so that it's closer to where you might actually want to write math.
]]>I'd certainly like to see both tex.SE and math.SE in the list of "alternative sites" in the FAQ, and given that they are somewhat closer to MO in style if nothing else, I'd vote for them having links somewhere discrete on the main page.
]]>Hmm, but perhaps it's worth listing a select few of the questions. You can learn:
and that's just for starters. You can also learn about the difference between \def and \newcommand, how to check for optional arguments (something that'd be useful here!), and get a few sneak previews of what LaTeX3 will be like.
]]>@Everyone else: beware, you can waste way too much time reading the questions and answers and learning about neat tricks on that site.
]]>The web address is: http://tex.stackexchange.com
The meta site is: http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com (where, of course, I expect everyone to vote for my suggestion for the site name).
As if further enticement were needed, let me point out that a couple of the people there actually write packages and are involved in the LaTeX3 project, so there are experts there as well as the usual weirdos like yours truly.
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