Questions tagged [experimental]
For questions about experimental features on Stack Exchange, i.e. things that the developers aren't sure of whether and/or how to implement.
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Opinion-based questions are missing from SEDE
I can't find posts from the new opinion-based questions experiment in SEDE. I've tried it with a slightly older one where I know the Id (79805930) and it is not in the Posts nor the PostsWithDeleted ...
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stackoverflow.ai - rebuilt for attribution
Update: Sept 24, 2025
We have released various improvements and updates today:
stackoverflow.ai now uses the most recent model to improve accuracy where SO & SE don't have valid answers.
Improved ...
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Labs experiment launch: stackoverflow.ai
UPDATE - July 9, 2025
This week we’ve updated stackoverflow.ai with the following new functionality and fixes:
Related content suggestions are more relevant and dynamically
re-ranked during ...
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Issues with the "new" comment editor
I have to scroll up to comment right under the question even though I am commenting on the last comment
I do not get the @user expanded in comments. When I type @jo it does not suggest @John Doe, @Joe ...
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Avoiding half-baked experiments: Setting clear standards for experiments and rollouts, beyond “Minimum”
N.B. Please note that while this post talks about MVPs (which we may or may not agree about their scope and definition), it is mostly concerned with experimental features (whether a graduated product ...
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Experimenting with a new experiment opt-out option
Update April 7th, 2025
The experiment opt-out switch is now a permanent change. We have created a new help center article covering opting out of experiments and updated the copy on the button for the ...
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How to opt-out of all experiments? [duplicate]
Just the other day I was reading
Upcoming changes to sign-up flow on the Stack Exchange network
and realized that some interactions I might be having with the software might be different than those ...
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AI/ML Tool examples part 3 - Title-Drafting Assistant
This is the third in a series of posts that we’re using to show (broadly, directionally) some of the potential use cases for generative AI in the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange environment.
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Technical site integration observational experiment live on Stack Overflow
Final Update (2020-4-22): This experiment has concluded and is now turned off. Thanks for your feedback.
We have just made an observational experiment live on Stack Overflow that will test out three ...
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A/B testing the sticky vote controls [closed]
First, apologies for not creating this feedback thread earlier - in hindsight, a change to such an established feature of our sites really does warrant some explanation.
We're running an A/B test on ...
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Feedback Request: Newer Timeline Question View [closed]
Back in January I asked for feedback on a new, experimental "timeline" question view.
We have finally come back to improve this view. We tried to incorporate most of the feedback from the previous ...
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Feedback Request: New Timeline Question View [closed]
There is an experimental timeline view for questions now available on meta ONLY! (Now working on SO, SF, and SU as well)
This is partially motivated by comments about how difficult it is to follow ...
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