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It would be too easy for a long-time SE user familiar with SE network and not too easy for a recently registered one.

The riddle is:

There you can't find waffles and polyglot anymore, since they are gone to be replaced with simple text and alien ship.

What is this?

osdavison · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27 18:25:41Z

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It's the

Stack Overflow 404 page

which used to have

this code polyglot (A program that works in multiple programming languages)

and before that

it had this picture of a keyboard waffle maker.

Now it has

simpler text and a picture of a spaceship

answered Mar 27 '18 at 18:18

osdavison

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$\begingroup$ Oh, I see that the answer is correct, but the hint about simple text has been misinterpreted, although it doesn't really matter :) $\endgroup$ – nicael Mar 27 '18 at 18:26
$\begingroup$ What was the "simple text" hint supposed to mean? $\endgroup$ – osdavison Mar 27 '18 at 18:33
$\begingroup$ the fact that, to be precise, waffles is not the Stack Overflow 404 page, but old Meta Stack Overflow 404 page, which is now called Meta Stack Exchange. And new MSO serves a different purpose. And Meta Stack Exchange has a simple text 404 - meta.stackexchange.com/404. $\endgroup$ – nicael Mar 27 '18 at 18:37
$\begingroup$ So, it's a bit difficult explanation unless you know all the history :) $\endgroup$ – nicael Mar 27 '18 at 18:39

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