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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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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, Portugues, 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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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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