Questions tagged [announcements]
For questions about Stack Exchange announcements, or announcements from the Stack Exchange team that detail recent changes across the network.
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2024 WeAreDevelopers Event Summary
Earlier today, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, presented at the 2024 WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. A key takeaway is that Community is and will always be at the center of ...
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process
Please note: We usually avoid posting on Fridays, but with the data dump scheduled for the end of July, we wanted to share this information with the community as soon as possible. We will monitor this ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (July 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
TL;DR - top areas of focus include:
Community Asks quarterly event
Iterating and scaling Staging ...
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We spent a sprint addressing your requests — here’s how it went
You may have noticed posts getting status-completed at an unusually high rate last week — there’s a reason for that, which I’ll get into further down. But first, some context for those who might need ...
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Upcoming sign-up experiments related to tags
In April, we shared that we had been conducting sign-up experiments on Stack Overflow and found positive results. These were centered around simplifying the typical sign-up flow and experience. Our ...
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Stack Overflow announcement profile [duplicate]
Feature request: a Stack Overflow announcement account!
So as you all know, Stack Overflow manages a lot of the administration of the Stack Exchange network, so this is not site specific.
I just want ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance - Thursday, May 16th, 2024, 22:00 - 23:00 UTC (6 PM - 7 PM EDT)
[UPDATE - Maintenance complete]
We will be performing maintenance on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites on Thursday, May 16th, 2024, 22:00 - 23:00 UTC (6 PM - 7 PM EDT).
During the maintenance ...
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How can a user unhappy with the LLM partnerships protest constructively (and ideally- effectively)?
I'm more asking this on behalf* of the many people I see trying to express protest to the OpenAI partnership in ways that get themselves into trouble:
Deleting their own posts- individual or en masse
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Imgur image URL migration: Coming soon to a Stack Exchange site near you!
Update on the URL migration, May 15th 2024
The work described below will be under way shortly. For further updates, we'll be maintaining the update log in the main post for the Imgur migration.
We're ...
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Stack Exchange reputation leagues will soon list only the top 400 users
Stack Exchange is currently in the process of migrating some of our backend infrastructure. Mostly, this migration comprises long-running behind-the-scenes work that doesn’t have an impact on the day-...
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Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs
Update on May 8th, 2024
Stack Overflow Jobs is now live. If you notice any bugs or other issues with the job site please report them on this separate post.
I am happy to announce that we are ...
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We are moving the API behind our CDN
Later today or tomorrow, we will be moving the API behind our Content Delivery Network (CDN). In an effort to better align all our applications, we are moving this and, in the future, other public ...
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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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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (March 2024)
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a heads-up that we’d be sharing updates on community product initiatives that we’re planning on focusing on over the upcoming months. Des, our Director of Product, shared ...
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No April Fools 2024 prank: rationale and next steps
Many long-time community members are familiar with the annual April Fools joke that Stack Overflow has done most years, last year being an exception. We are proactively letting you know that we will ...
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