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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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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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I just noticed today when I couldn't find one of my tabs, that the Stack Overflow favicon has changed. I rely on the look of the icon to find my tabs and when Google changed their favicon years ago I ...
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Just now, I got a hefty rep-recalc. I've seen serial upvotes before (and downvotes, for that matter) and as such am very familiar with the subsequent reversal. However, in this case, it's different. ...
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Time and time again, websites that millions use every single day have been struck with awful redesigns, turning their once vibrant, unique aesthetics into homogeneous flat corporate slop. And now, the ...
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Stack Exchange is planning a site wide UX rehaul, currently in beta on Stack Overflow beta. This new UX has some obvious and less obvious changes. Here is a tentative list with my personal feedback: �...
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Logo for all international Stack Overflow sites (Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese) was changed recently and that looks like the site name is changed as well but actually not. I show you example ...
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I have found an unanswered question in stack-overflow platform about creating custom input-method-engine for linux using IBUS service. So I decided to answer it. I have also seen that opinion based ...
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In early December, AI Assist shifted from being an offsite experiment to being integrated into the Stack Overflow & Exchange experience. This enabled logged-in users to return to previous ...
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What is going on with the editor on SO? Especially for "Best Practices". I just attempted to add a reply at cout vs. fprintf vs. fputs, and the editor was in whatever non-markdown mode is. ...
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Currently, the AI Assist box is seated in a loud-and-proud location at the top of the home page on Stack Overflow. I imagine that there might be a few users who didn't ask for this feature and don't ...
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Today (December 2, 2025), AI Assist’s conversational search and discovery experience is now fully integrated into Stack Overflow. AI Assist continues to provide learners with ways to understand ...
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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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