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The Wikipedia article about this site is awful. When I went there today for the first time, they even had the name wrong! ("Stack Exchange" instead of "StackExchange"). And in the ...
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The last time that I extracted any content from SE, no ECMAScript intercepted that process to prepend license information. However, recently, at stackoverflow.com/a/28128802, I duplicated a text/x....
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I’ve only been part of Stack Exchange for a very short time, and I’m loving it. It already feels like home to me because I’ve met so many great people. What I think makes SE unique is that it connects ...
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I would like to ask a question about Government Skilling Programmes and their impact on career development and workforce readiness. However, I’m unsure which Stack Exchange community would be suitable ...
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In October, we ran this year’s round of Community-a-thon. As in previous years, the purpose is for staff to step into the shoes of community members and experience what it’s like to ask, answer, edit, ...
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Looking at the page where Stack Exchange sells our data (https://stackoverflow.co/data-licensing) made me wonder: under which license does Stack Exchange sell our data?
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Stack Exchange is great at giving data/statistics for Q&A, comments and moderation actions. Due to the 10-fold decrease in Q&A, Stack Exchange is now focusing on the chat feature (and their ...
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I believe that aspects of the rebrand violate the moderator agreement, and triggering a moderator vote may be the only way to try to change it if all else fails. While there's a process to vote, I'm ...
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We are looking for community insight on the effectiveness of the 'New contributor' label. This label is visible for a week following their first post. From what I understand (this was built before my ...
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This is going to be a bit broad, but I think it's worth discussing, even with the Needs more focus line. The general guidance for reporting security issues for Stack Internal (formerly Stack Overflow ...
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Today, I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog. Focus areas include; AI Assist Stack Overflow Redesign Supporting all technical conversations ...
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I use high-quality monitors. I have older eyes. The default title and link colors on many stack sites -- very bright, light cyan (blue) -- is very very hard to read. I'd guess the contrast between ...
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Effective today (November 19, 2025), Chat guidelines will be displayed to users upon entering a Chat room. As previously announced, Chat room owners have the option to establish room-specific ...
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I find the formatting on this page a bit odd. "This question already has answers here: / Closed 15 years ago", and then formatted as if it is an unrelated piece of information "Possible ...
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I asked a question earlier on SO Windows 11 - PowerShell command Get-ADGroupMember throws error And it has been closed because it was deemed a duplicate of this question: Import-Module : The specified ...
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This is really a question in 2 parts — I've seen the product formerly known as Teams referred to as both Stack Internal and Stack Overflow Internal. I'd prefer the former but… clarity would be useful, ...
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I was happily working my way through a tag cleanup where several tags were supposed to be merged into a new activity-tab tag. The new tag is meant encompass the Activity tab of a user profile. ...
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I’m Ash Zade, a Staff Product Manager, and I have been at Stack for a little over three years, but I have been a Stack user for over a decade. I started my career at Stack on the SaaS side as a ...
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The latest company announcement about AI was posted with a new tag artificial-intelligence, which only has that one question tagged with it so far. There's another tag ai-tools with 11 questions ...
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Today we’ve added a new section to the Terms of Service. The new section is an “AI Addendum” and pertains to features that utilize AI interactions, such as AI Assist and Question Assistant. The full ...
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"Siri, vote every day in a random time two random posts of myHatedEnemy down. Also send a report about the activites of his recently downvoted posts." They will automatize tasks. Today they ...
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After having replied to Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?, I realized that the question is ill stated and that I was fooled by the authors. The question ...
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Over one year ago, Stack Exchange Inc. drastically changed their data dump process and, aside from making it a major pain to download the entire dump of the Stack Exchange network, decided to add the ...
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Update November 19, 2025 The new Chat room onboarding modals are now in operation, with room-specific guidelines displayed upon room entry. Some of the feedback and suggestions from this post will be ...
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The sixth Community Asks Sprint, which is the final one of 2025, has now concluded. The focus was on site design and usability, and we got a number of requests for things to improve. The first ask we ...
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Occasionally, old questions here on Meta SE are bumped up for a variety of reasons (tags are tidied, random edits, spam replies, Community bot, etc.) The most up-voted answers for these question can ...
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Intro Hi, I'm Connell. You may remember me from such experiments as The New Comments UI, The New Homepage, and ironically most favourably, The Experiment Opt-Out Switch. I've been a Senior Software ...
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TL;DR Our anti-spam measure, which leverages similarities in recently deleted spam to help delete new spam, is now enabled network-wide. Our findings during its week-long trial on Super User indicate ...
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Doing a bit of experimenting with SEDE to find profile spam I found some common hostnames, while some are expected like github, linkedin,facebook etc. I also found quite a bit of spam hosts used by ...
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Is the "moderator message sent to the user's inbox" automated or manual (optional) when the user is suspended from a chat room? I did not receive any message from the mod when I was ...
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The 2024 changes to the data dump were made because: Simultaneously, we know that companies have scraped or otherwise ingested Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange data to train models without proper ...
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Out of an abundance of caution, MathJax V3 has been temporarily disabled network-wide, and the option to turn it on has been temporarily removed. We have taken this action due to the potential ...
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If a question can be solved within several sentences, is it OK to just leave a rather complete solution in the comment zone rather than write a formal answer? If so, which is better way? I am asking ...
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I asked a clarification about the iCalendar standard on SO, but it was closed. Where do I post a question about a standard commonly used in programming? I looked at this post but seems not to talk ...
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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've seen comments on Super User Meta where users call it "toxic" or "bad behavior" to post an answer, and then delete it when it receives negative feedback or downvotes. I've ...
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Update on November 4, 2025 The results of the sixth Community Asks Sprint are posted here. The sixth Community Asks Sprint is coming up soon (end of October), though the last one concluded only a few ...
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I stumbled upon a phenomenon on superuser where quite a few people answered their own question in the question itself and, despite reminders to do so, never put the solution in an answer. This appears ...
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For many years - despite often doing business as "Stack Overflow", the company behind the network has formally been called "Stack Exchange Inc". I've complained for many years that ...
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Here is the situation: Somebody asked, "I've learned from book X (which covers subject that called Morse theory) and I want to take the next step. What should I learn now?" He got some ...
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tl;dr Our sixth Community-a-thon will run from October 17 to 24. This is an annual event where staff at Stack Overflow are encouraged to participate on the Stack Exchange network. The scale of the ...
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Last month, Imgur started blocking users from the United Kingdom from their site. For British users, a stub image with "Content not available in your region" is served instead, meaning that ...
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There's an increase in ads for things like snacks on Stack Overflow. Is there a new ad provider? These ads are garish and off-putting, taking up a high percentage of page area. Previously it seemed ...
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It has been the case recently that the ads, both in the side panel and in the top bar, network-wide, refresh themselves automatically to some other ads, which did not happen before. This happens both ...
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This is the fifth and final post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains ...
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This is the fourth post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains the ...
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This is the third post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains the project'...
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This is the second post in our series discussing the redesign of Stack Overflow. If you haven’t yet, we recommend reading Part 1: A First Look: Stack Overflow redesign first, which explains the ...
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A little while ago, we started a conversation about evolving the look and feel of Stack Overflow. Your feedback was clear: you wanted less marketing and more product. You were right. We're sorry we ...
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I often tell people that I have the singular pleasure of working with some of the best community managers in the industry. But this team, great as it is, isn’t perfect. You see, we had a weird “...
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