Questions tagged [company-update]
For posts made by Stack Overflow employees about platform updates, product releases, calls for feedback, etc.
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We’re using a machine learning model to fight against spam
Years ago, the dedicated Charcoal organization taught us that yes, you can teach a machine to flag spam automatically. After all, to quote ArtOfCode from How does spam protection work on Stack ...
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A proposal for bringing back Community Promotion & Open Source Ads
First introduced in 2009, Open Source Ads offered the Stack Overflow community the opportunity to propose and approve ads that members thought would be of interest to the community. These ads would ...
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Announcing Stack Overflow’s Partnership with the Real Simple Licensing Collective
Over the past few years, the internet and the agreements between platforms, content providers, and our community has shifted dramatically with the rise of generative AI. As one of the largest sources ...
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Native Ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
Advertising revenue is a necessary component of our financial strategy to not only keep the lights on, but to continue improving the site. It also allows us to bring new ideas to fruition so we can ...
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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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2025 Community-a-thon recap
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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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network - November 2025
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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New Chat room onboarding experience is live
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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We’ve made an addition to our Terms of Service – November 2025
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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Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines
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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Results of the October 2025 Community Asks Sprint: copy button for code blocks, and more
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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We’re releasing our proactive anti-spam measure network-wide
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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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Community Asks Sprint Announcement - October/November 2025
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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Join us for Community-a-thon 2025, starting October 17
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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.
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Stack Overflow Redesign: Profile Page
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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