Questions tagged [discussion]
Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.
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(Almost) One year of Challenges
It's been almost a year since the launch of Coding Challenges on Stack Overflow. We think it’s important to share this reflection with the rest of the network, and we also want to know if there is ...
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What is the line between sharing personal experience and self-promotion on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I’m trying to understand where the boundary is between a genuine contribution and what might be considered self-promotion.
For example, if someone has developed their own framework, method, or ...
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I'm Adam, staff software engineer, and this is how I work
Hi hello 👋 I'm Adam Lear and I'll be your host for this round of the This Is How I Work series. In mid-January I celebrated my 14-year anniversary of joining the company. It's kinda wild to think ...
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Thank you V2Blast (Again!), Rosie, Slate, Charlotte, Hoid, Grace Note, Kyle Pollard, Tom Limoncelli and anyone else who got downsized
I hate writing these posts. They happen far too often and they reflect a certain failure in how this place is run, and a darker prospect for the future of the network.
Usually we'd talk about the ...
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How does the recent reorganisation impact the Stack Exchange community?
In a comment on the post Retiring the beta site over on meta SO, Philippe wrote:
... we had a recent reorganization, which resulted in different folks being put in charge of various parts of the ...
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Asking AI instead of Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange to avoid triage/acceptance phase for question that is becoming too complex
This past year, I had some subjects that blocked me while developing and deploying.
Few questions that have been closed or not well received because of dangling off-topic
"What to focus on first?...
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If an answer is deleted, what should links to it do when viewed in an incognito window? [duplicate]
If an answer is deleted, what should links to it do when viewed in an incognito window?
Currently they just go to the parent question, leaving users confused.
Shouldn't they print some explanatory ...
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How will Tennessee's SB 1493 ("making certain AI training a Class A felony") affect Stack Exchange?
Tennessee may be on the verge of enacting one of the most punitive artificial intelligence laws in the country. Under this proposal, the state would transform routine design features of modern ...
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Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no ...
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Community Engagement Across the Network: Focus for 2026
It is not going to be a surprise to anyone here when I say that we need to talk about engagement. A number of the product initiatives from 2025 and into 2026 have focused on experimenting with ...
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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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How do I get 20 reputation on this web site so I can chat? [duplicate]
How do I get 20 reputation on this web site so I can chat?
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When should I just click the contact button below?
When should I just click the contact button below?
vs. posting here?
Digging deeper, we find the contact button is for an "issue that can't be addressed by meta".
OK, I will first send to ...
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Results of the October 2025 Community Asks Sprint: copy button for code blocks, and more
The sixth Community Asks Sprint, which is the final one of 2025, has now concluded. The focus was on site design and usability, and we got a number of requests for things to improve. The first ask we ...
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This tag isn't [trivial] -- it has two uses
The trivial tag (14 questions) has a description saying it's for "Trivial answers and trivial edits". Problem is, those are two completely different things, with different rules etc., that ...
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