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Currently, as part of a Commenting experiment, users who click that they have a follow-up question are sent to discussions. This is generally wrong. Most of the time follow-up questions that that ...
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Update April 2nd, 2025 As of today, we are returning the commenting experience to how it was before the commenting experiment. We have shared our learnings in a separate post: What We Learned About ...
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I’m Tom, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Stack Overflow. I first joined in 2015 when Joel was running the show, spent a few years here, and then boomeranged back in 2021. I primarily support ...
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As outlined in the announcement of an experiment for commenting, earlier this week we rolled out the first of several upcoming experiments related to the commenting feature, which allows users who ...
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TL;DR: Our recent comment experiments concluded, and we gained valuable insights: Users want to say thanks, and ask follow-up questions on existing answers. We know that current options aren't ideal ...
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TLDR This post follows on the learnings from the Comments experiment. We’re taking a specific look at what we saw in Discussions and detailing some observations. We’re proposing a further experiment ...
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I'm new to Stack Overflow, and I'm trying to learn how to properly phrase my questions and comments. Recently, I replied to a question asking for clarification because the author had done something ...
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Since a few days, we have this UX when commenting: It has been discussed in Feedback post for upcoming experiments for commenting — Phase Two: Ask a follow-up question, and Upcoming Experiment for ...
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I noticed, from Friday I think, that loading my Stack Overflow profile page is taking quite some time. When trying to view it, it can take up to 30 seconds to load. Once I've loaded it on a machine it ...
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For the past few... weeks, I think, whenever I try to post a comment, I get a pop-up suggesting to divert me elsewhere in case I want to say thanks or ask another question. This may, perhaps, be ...
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