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USING THIS TAG IS NOT THE SAME THING AS ASKING ON STACK OVERFLOW. YOU ARE ON META STACK EXCHANGE, WHERE MOST PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC. Questions specific to stackoverflow.com should be asked on meta.stackoverflow.com; such questions will be closed here. This is for questions about the Stack Overflow site that still relate to the SE network as a whole. Questions about Stack Overflow (the company) should be tagged [company] instead.

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So far I see Javascript as the default (and seemingly the only) language option when creating a new code snippet. Indeed, the run produces an error as the JS interpreter doesn't understand TS. Is ...
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I understand the whole "one question per post" in general terms. But I'd like the forum's view on a particular example: I posted (on SO) a code snippet and asked for help optimising its ...
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I often see comments that criticize either the OP or another comment, and doesn't actually contribute anything to the post. Why are these comments posted? Also why does Stack Overflow remove ...
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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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Edit: This issue looks to be caused by some peculiarity with my StackExchange account, but it happens in both Firefox and Chrome; so something about my account breaks the site, but other (most?) ...
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Thanks for all your feedback since our AMA in March. I’ve enjoyed engaging with many of you and learning about what matters to you the most. I often share with the company what I hear from users that ...
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In the last few days I cannot see any code snippet but I see a series of [object Object] instead. Is this a personal issue or a general? This is a sample preview: This is the link to the Q/A: Can I ...
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Update May 6th, 2025 After reviewing the feedback on the comment changes, specifically regarding the plan to disable the "No longer needed" (NLN) flag during this experiment, we discussed ...
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On Stack Overflow, the text for flags in the flag history page has its first letter capitalized (for example, spam): However, on other sites, the text is not capitalized: What is the reason for the ...
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I was trying to correct a broken link in an old answer of mine on Stack Overflow, and really struggled until I realised that it was in Rich Text mode. (When did that happen? Not been very active on SO ...
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I'm getting "An error occurred submitting the answer/question" on StackOverflow and Meta StackOverflow. However, I'm able to comment. In developer tool I noticed 429 Too Many Request error. ...
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I was peeking at a question that included two full scripts and an error message that referenced a particular line. I copy-pasted the code into VS Code to see the line numbers, but it would be ...
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I woke up this morning and I just found I can't access Stack Overflow, as of February 7, 2025 03:37 UTC. More specificially, I can visit the front page (stackoverflow.com) normally, but any page other ...
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I have no idea why this happens; did I accidentally turn on a setting somewhere? It should display the total of up votes and down votes. Now I have to click on Vote to see ... the votes. Is there any ...
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As seen in New Vote Types in latest data dump?, some new vote types appeared (likely) exclusively in the Stack Overflow data dump. A couple users helped find out what each one meant. However, what ...
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