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15 questions linked to/from What does the public really need from us?
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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Join us for our first community-wide AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Stack Overflow’s CEO (and a few others) on February 26, 2025
Stack Overflow Live Q&A YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6-3J7G_XX0s
On February 26, 2025, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST (20:00 to 21:30 UTC), Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar will ...
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Why do you stay?
As I read about the Monica controversy, part of me feels very disheartened. Clearly this community means something to people, the passion in the words I read affirms that for me. At the same time ...
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Embrace the non-Googlers
There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to "easy" questions that involve quickly answering by copy/pasting embarrassing links to lmgtfy.com (or similar responses in comments, which aren't downvotable) ...
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What can be cut away, and why?
In my last question, I asked what you thought the public really needed from us, with the goal of seeding discussion around our common identity as the people who co-create this network and maintain it ...
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What’s on your mind?
You. Yes, you: What’s on your mind?
When you think about the future of the network - years from now - what worries you? What makes you anxious? What do you look forward to? What might make you hopeful?...
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How'd you get started?
OK, it feels like this is tapering off a little, so I'm going to do the same thing as last week ... I'll still check in here and read, but I'm probably not going to post much more here. The next ...
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Upcoming changes to sign-up flow on the Stack Exchange network
Over the last couple of months, we’ve conducted several experiments surrounding some changes to the sign-up flow on Stack Overflow, all of which we’ve successfully graduated in some fashion on Stack ...
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What is "Answer Bot" and what is it doing?
I found a user on Webapps SE named Answer Bot with an "AI" badge (site profile ID of -2). Here's the profile[1]:
Hi, I'm not really a person.
I'm an AI that's powered by LLM partners of ...
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I can't see anything - Teams banner and cookie toaster obscure my whole screen
There have been issues with the cookie box for a while, but this is ridiculous. It reminds me of late 2017 Stack Overflow, but this time it's network-wide.
The banner must be scrolled past (or ...
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What’s the redesigning campaign – in a nutshell?
On my favourite site, a new design was announced. It contained a lot of links to posts which in turn contain a lot of links, answers, timelines, and references to stuff like Teams which is not ...
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Thoughts on the CEO update Blog Post "Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ecosystem"
In the tradition of posting meta posts for feedback, in the hopes that it'll be conveyed to the relevant people, and at the very least, have a space to discuss the most recent blog post by the CEO.
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Upcoming research on Stack Overflow and across the SE network (Nov 2024)
Today, I shared an update on the blog about the research we will be conducting over the next quarter.
TL;DR – this quarter’s research focus is as follows:
Motivation, incentives, and gamification
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process
UPDATE August 29, 2024
This new post has updates related to various bug reports and feature requests.
UPDATE August 14, 2024
Over the past week we’ve scaled up the availability of the new page and ...
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AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites that volunteered to participate
Update – April 29, 2025:
The Answer Assistant experiment has concluded.
Answer Assistant is an experiment in which AI-generated answers are verified, edited, and curated by the community before ...