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16 questions linked to/from Recapping Stack’s first community-wide AMA (Ask Me Anything)
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.
Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
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Join us for our first community-wide AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Stack Overflow’s CEO (and a few others) on February 26, 2025
Stack Overflow Live Q&A YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6-3J7G_XX0s
On February 26, 2025, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST (20:00 to 21:30 UTC), Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar will ...
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How might Chat evolve? Help us identify problems and opportunities
Greetings from the Stack Exchange UX Research team!
As you may have heard from the recent AMA and blog posts, Stack Exchange is exploring early ideas for expanding beyond the “single lane” Q&A ...
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What can be cut away, and why?
In my last question, I asked what you thought the public really needed from us, with the goal of seeding discussion around our common identity as the people who co-create this network and maintain it ...
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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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Updated: Mobile app infrastructure has been decommissioned
Update #2
One last final update before we close the loop on this indefinitely.
When we announced this, we were intentionally vague about why the remaining mobile infrastructure was being ...
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bigbird and Frog have joined us as Community Managers
One of the things I love the most about my job is getting to hire new people to the team and seeing the amazing ways they can add to our practice. Today, I get to introduce two! Frog and bigbird ...
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Please add a system to allow file uploads attached to questions and answers
I posted a question and a couple of respondents asked for the source code. I could only post portions of the code.
If attachments were allowed I could have uploaded a .zip file with the whole ...
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StackOverflow.Blog isn't that great
I've been here a while, and done a few rodeos and, the quality of blog posts feels like its hit rock bottom at times. I admit there's some great ones but considering Stack Overflow as a company is in ...
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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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A[n] [In]complete Character-Limiting Guide to Stack Exchange
The Stack Exchange network user interface has a lot of forms, and subsequently, inputs with various character limits in place. Some of them are notorious (such as custom moderator flag character limit ...
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Upcoming research on Stack Overflow and across the SE network (Nov 2024)
Today, I shared an update on the blog about the research we will be conducting over the next quarter.
TL;DR – this quarter’s research focus is as follows:
Motivation, incentives, and gamification
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What does the community see as blockers for community hiring?
I think most folks know I've a deep (perhaps a little too deep) an interest in matters involving community and the community team.
While traditionally I jogged, or (perhaps licked) elbows about when ...
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Announcing Jody Bailey as Chief Product and Technology Officer (Feb 2025)
For the last two-and-a-half years, Jody Bailey has served as our Chief Technical Officer, and has driven the company forward in terms of our technical infrastructure, particularly with our move to the ...
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