Linked Questions
10 questions linked to/from Native Ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
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The future of Community Promotion, Open Source, and Hot Network Questions Ads
September 2021 update: The ads are now live! As a way to try to address some of the concerns about the voting period being too short, we're running the selected ads that score 6 or more, or any ads ...
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Is the voting and reputation system sustainable? How can we improve it or maybe it should be replaced?
Is voting still sustainable?
The number of votes going down and the dynamics changing towards questions and answers only being relevant during the first few days.
This makes the rating system, by ...
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Stack Overflow Redesign: Navigation and Homepage
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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Updates to advertising guidelines
We’ve shared in the past how revenue sources such as advertising and site sponsorships are important because they allow us to reinvest back into the community. Historically, we’ve had strict ...
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What is story behind the edX Stack Exchange sites?
What is story behind the edX Stack Exchanges sites, specifically
http://edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com/ and https://cs50.stackexchange.com/?
I just saw these in the top menu bar, and I'm confused ...
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What is the profitability and future business outlook of the StackOverflow family of sites? [closed]
I wonder if StackOverflow is able to pay for itself or perhaps is generating lots of revenue. I like its business model a lot: job postings, enterprise application, ads. I haven't seen anyone talk ...
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"Native Adverts" - will SE block all trackers embedded in them?
Advertising on the internet uses aggressive tracker technologies. As you intend to force these deceptive looking adverts down user's throats, are you also going to let advertisers employ trackers in ...
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The arrows in the image of "reduce ads" privilege help article is confusing
As of April 2025, the image shown on "reduce ads" privilege help article looks like this.
What will my view look like when these ads are disabled?
After achieving this privilege, the two &...
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More network sites to see advertising test [updated with phase 3]
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow
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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