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14 questions linked to/from User activation: Learnings and opportunities
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Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
This feature is now live across the network.
We've been doing quite a bit of research into ways that we could help new users have better experiences that ultimately lead them to becoming increasingly ...
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What’s on your mind?
You. Yes, you: What’s on your mind?
When you think about the future of the network - years from now - what worries you? What makes you anxious? What do you look forward to? What might make you hopeful?...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (July 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
TL;DR - top areas of focus include:
Community Asks quarterly event
Iterating and scaling Staging ...
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Upcoming sign-up experiments related to tags
Update August 29, 2024
We launched the recent tags experiment on Stack Overflow. A bug is currently causing it to show up network-wide. We are working to correct that, but if you find yourself ...
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The Internet is changing: Here's how we're evolving with it
Today, we published a series of posts on the Stack Overflow blog that discuss recent industry changes and Stack’s future positioning.
The series is a collection of thought leadership pieces by the ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (October 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
TL;DR - top areas of focus include:
User activation
Iterating and scaling Staging Ground
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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?
While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page.
In its first paragraph the policy reads:
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Once I reach 15 reputation, will my old votes be taken into account?
Users below 15 reputation can't effectively vote. It says:
Votes cast by those with less than 15 reputation are recorded, but do not change the publicly displayed post score
Does it mean that they ...
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2024 Community-a-thon Recap
This past October, we hosted our fifth annual Community-a-thon, a special time when our team dives deep into the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange communities to experience (again) what it’s like to ...
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Dramatic increase in New User accounts - why?
I've noticed a big uptick in "new user" account creation on Bicycles:
Zooming in, we can see a cliff between 5 and 12 June 2024.
Before that, new users were steady at 6-15 a day. After ...
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Add an option to sort answers by the viewer's previously cast votes
Motivation: When I sort by highest score, what I really want is that by default, what other people found the most useful is at the top, because I'm in a mode where I want to find things that will be ...
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In the long term, are there plans to convert the Meta Stack Exchange network into a decentralized solution? [closed]
It's my first time on Meta Stack Exchange, but when I read the topics on what is going on in development of the platform, my first thoughts were, why are most of the Topics voted down so much?
For ...
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
Update April 3rd, 2024
We have posted an update on the status of this experiment on MSO. Please leave any feedback, questions, or critiques on that post.
TL;DR: We are interested in finding 2-3 Stack ...
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We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
Update
This experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network.
About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general ...