Questions tagged [announcement]
For "official" announcements from either the elected moderator team or the Stack Exchange staff
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Stack Overflow chat opening up to all users in January; Stack Exchange chat later
In early January we plan to lower the reputation requirement for Stack Overflow chat rooms to 1, allowing all users to enter and participate in public chat rooms.
Some chat actions will remain at ...
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New and improved coding challenges
TLDR: We are making some UX improvements to Coding Challenges, and releasing a new challenge each day during the week of September 15, 2025.
A challenge a day keeps boredom away
Each day next week, ...
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Updated design for the new live activity panel experiment
Update August 7th, 2025: The experiment described below is being rolled out today. Please let us know if you run into any issues!
In case you did not see, we recently announced an experiment in ...
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More unanswered questions widget after posting an answer
A long time ago, we experimented with prompting users to answer more questions after they posted an answer. We saw promising results, but priorities shifted and the changes were never graduated. After ...
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Developments in our experiment to add a live activity panel to the site
Update June 30th, 2025: A new design is available to view on this update post which removes user avatars from the sidebar design.
Back in May, we shared an experiment to add a live activity panel to ...
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One Ask Page to Rule Them All
The company is working to simplify, improve, and consolidate the question asking experience for users new and old on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. We are rolling out a few more ...
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Recent changes to “unanswered” tab, and testing of a new recommendation engine on tags pages
July 23 Update: The last recommendation engine experiment didn’t produce the results we were looking for – it did not increase CTR or answers. At this point, we’ve decided not to graduate the ...
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An experiment in adding a live activity panel to the question ask page
New users frequently report to us that they view Stack Overflow as a slow place to get answers to problems that they face. Their perceptions are often rooted in the belief that many posts go ...
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The 2025 Developer Survey is Now Live
July 29, 2025 Update: The 2025 Dev Survey results are now live! The technology section is updated this year with the 5 most common write-in responses for technologies used and want to use, and new ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election is underway
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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An experiment on pairing askers with experts in the community
We are evaluating a conceptual feature of the platform that would seek to pair askers and available experts in the community in a live session format. Beginning today, we are running an experiment to ...
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Testing out coding challenges – Discussions going on pause
Update on June 16, 2025
This experiment is being extended through July 15th. Challenge 3 will be posted on June 17th, and challenge 4 will be posted on July 1st. All challenge posts can be seen at ...
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We're having a moderator election soon—question collection starts May 20, 2025 [duplicate]
A Community Moderator Election has now officially been scheduled for Stack Overflow in 2025. This will be Stack Overflow's 16th moderator election.
As y'all surely know, moderator elections have four ...
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What we learned: Insights from the discussion on closed (and potentially useful) questions on Stack Overflow
Thank you to everyone who engaged in the recent Meta post: A discussion about closed (and potentially useful) posts on Stack Overflow. This post sparked lively debate, you can see it just by looking ...
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2025 Developer Survey: Call for Feedback [duplicate]
Update 5/12: Thank you for your expertise, we are done collecting feedback here. Stay tuned for the announcement to take the survey!
We're gearing up for the 2025 Developer Survey, and we want to ...
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