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Evolving comments: An experiment to encourage engagement and follow-up questions
Update May 6th, 2025
After reviewing the feedback on the comment changes, specifically regarding the plan to disable the "No longer needed" (NLN) flag during this experiment, we discussed ...
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After 16 years, we’re renewing the Brand
By Philippe Beaudette, SVP, Community and
Eric Martin, SVP, Marketing
Over the past year, staff here have tried to communicate openly and frequently about the future we’re building at a business, ...
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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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Chat link has now been added to left navigation bar
You may have noticed that over the last several weeks, we ran an experiment that added a link to chat on Stack Overflow and some Stack Exchange sites in an attempt to make it more visible to site ...
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Concluding the Answer Assistant experiment
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, we ended the Answer Assistant experiment on the Stack Exchange sites where it was running - Raspberry Pi, Arts & Crafts, and User Experience.
We greatly appreciate the ...
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Avoiding half-baked experiments: Setting clear standards for experiments and rollouts, beyond “Minimum”
N.B. Please note that while this post talks about MVPs (which we may or may not agree about their scope and definition), it is mostly concerned with experimental features (whether a graduated product ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network - April 2025
Today, I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog. Community Products development teams are focused on delivering against outcomes, which are ...
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The number of questions has decreased 10-fold: where did users go and what can be done to prevent that?
The number of questions has decreased 10-fold over the entire Stack Exchange network:
For example, around 1 million questions were posted across the entire Stack Exchange network in 2010.
This makes ...
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Results of the March 2025 Community Asks Sprint
The March Community Asks Sprint has concluded!
As this was the third Community Asks Sprint, we’re starting to hit our stride. We were able to put forth critical design work for a variety of issues and ...
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Allow regular users to vote to lift a user's suspension
Allow regular users to vote to lift a user's suspension.
Rationale: SE is supposed to be moderated by the community as much as possible.
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Make it clearer that comments are temporary
I have been a user of Stack Overflow for 8 years, though admittedly I have been more of a lurker than a contributor.
But only recently did I come across the idea that comments under any post/answer ...
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Allow moderators to view moderator messages for any users on sites they do not moderate
Feature Request: Allow moderators to view moderator messages for any users on sites they do not moderate.
Rationale: This would help moderators better understand a user's past behavior across the ...
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How can any users know if a mod is working in their interests in a system that by design hides moderator actions?
In the light of the moderator agreement, moderators get to know many userbase-breaking changes to the network BEFORE they are disclosed to the general public. Even in recent post about changes to the ...
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How did I, having never been a moderator, single-handedly delete someone else's question?
According to the post history of this question, I single-handedly deleted it 2 months ago.
Except...I'm not a mod, so it should take at least 3 votes (for this question it would actually be 4) to ...
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Allow users to make their suspension reason public during the suspension
Allow users to make their suspension reason public during the suspension.
Rationale: Currently, the suspension reason is just a few words ("low-quality contribution", "rule violation&...
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How should we handle posts promoting unverified mental health "cures"?
Earlier today, I came across a post (on a travel-related thread) that included a link to what appeared to be a scam—promoting an unverified "instant cure" for depression. It was off-topic, ...
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Can we stop using "yesterday" for timestamps and switch to "1 day ago" or a specific timestamp?
The "yesterday" timestamp can (often) be a source of confusion (1, 2, for example); it is likely status-bydesign that "yesterday" means "between 24-48 hours ago", rather ...
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Combined flair rep keeps changing (± ~15k rep) for months
I've noticed that my profile's combined flair reputation has been fluctuating in jumps of around 15k rep over the past few months, even setting aside the repeated absurd account suspensions. I don't ...
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Is it possible for the Community BOT question analysis to occur at the time a user tries to post their question?
Over at Worldbuilding we regularly see questions with, eventually, an attached comment from the automated Community BOT that more-or-less says, "your post doesn't meet our basic expectations for ...
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“Comment not found” error when jumping to a comment
An error message “Comment not found” is displayed if one jumps to a comment by:
clicking on a comment in the responses tab,
clicking on a comment in the activity tab,
clicking on a comment in the ...
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Cloudflare blocking Wayback Machine from archiving Stack Exchange questions
Recently, whenever I try to archive a question using the Wayback Machine, Cloudflare's been blocking the attempt:
Given that any negative impact on the Wayback Machine's ability to archive SE pages ...
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Chat allows Room Owners to delete any message
Chat is now allowing Room Owners to delete any message sent by any user in a room they own, regardless of age. An RO cannot do this from the transcript view, though.
Is this behavior intentional, and ...
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Animated avatars are back
I noticed an old account where the avatar (from their Google account) is now shown as animated pretty much anywhere I've looked (Q&A page, profile, badge page).
For the intended behavior, see ...
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What causes the difference between score and (upvotes-downvotes) in SEDE?
As far as I can tell, there are some posts in SEDE where you get different number from Posts.Score and different number if you count upvotes and downvotes from the Votes table.
However, as you can see ...
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Networkwide search seems to be ignoring the recent questions
I wanted to find whether some specific recent issue was discussed also on some per-site-metas.
So I tried to search with the restriction using creation date. To my surprise, the search did not return ...
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Should we be closing completed bug reports/feature requests about deprecated software as "No longer reproducible"?
We've recently had some folks going through some of our older questions that are tagged with now-deprecated software tags (e.g. ios-app/android-app) and voting to close them as "No longer ...
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Prevent an answer being accepted if pending SPAM or "rude or abusive" flags
The following sequence occurred on Server Fault:
A question with gibberish was posted by a new user, and I flagged as rude or abusive as soon as saw it in line with What makes something rude or ...
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Where should I post questions related to the reliability and accuracy of certain Internet sites?
I want to upload a question related to the reliability and accuracy of sites or social media on the internet, but I don't know which site on Stack Exchange to upload it to.
Where should I post ...
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Chat search seems to be broken
I don't know when exactly it started, but I noticed this morning that the search function in chat seems to be broken, returning 0 results found every time. I have tried with many different rooms and ...
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"Hang on, you can't upvote just yet." -- so is my vote saved or not?
I've been using the forums for years, and I've always been prompted "You can't vote but your vote is saved" or something similar when I've upvoted a question or answer. It was reassuring ...
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How to deal with repeated post/account deletion?
Three closely related problems have come up on multiple different sites lately, which I am not entirely sure how to deal with:
Particular users repeatedly deleting their old account after making one ...
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Are there any "groups" in Stack Exchange just like we see in Reddit?
I'm a beginner in Stack Exchange. I came from Reddit, and there we have groups to related topics so we can post questions in those specific groups. Does Stack Exchange work similarly or not?
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Does "anywhere" mean "anywhere" If I'm applying to work at Stack Exchange?
Historically, where Stack Exchange is willing to hire has varied. I'm particularly interested in an upcoming (at some point) role for a community manager (no surprise there). We've historically and ...
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Do unusually large slews of flags get notified with enough prominence to site moderators and community managers?
Motive
There is a SE site that has a Question, currently in HNQ, whose edit history contains extremely personal information about the post author.
I'm sure that plenty of users – thanks to the HNQ ...
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As a new user, why can't I 'favorite', 'upvote', or 'like' any helpful posts?
I literally just joined the Stack Exchange community about an hour ago.
Why am I unable to upvote, like, or favorite any posts?
I personally feel extremely excluded from the entire community. I ...
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Are auto-generated profile pictures unique per email used?
Recently on another Stack there was a user who for the most part was posting normally, but then began deleting their account/recreating a new one sometimes with the same name and continued posting ...
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Why were there interactions after the post was locked? [duplicate]
Consider How can I know whether a compound such as InAlO3 exists? - this is locked for the reason "There are disputes about this question’s content being resolved at this time. It is not ...
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Don't show suspension reasons at all on user profiles
Right now, there is a very general suspension reason shown on a user's profile if they are currently suspended. This is along the lines of "low quality content", "rule violations" ...
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The Tavern needs a sidebar - could we have a direct chat link for MSE as well?
The rest of the network has chat on the sidebar. While it's great to see my not so evil plans happen - a notable exception to chat being on the sidebar is on meta. Meta has its own chat instance, and ...
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Why are there so many rules, and how can we figure them out? [duplicate]
I would think one would talk online, as they do in real life. That is apparently not allowed on here. Every question I ask is banned for violating some unreasonable rule. Every comment I make is ...
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In SEDE, how do Id and CreationDate relate for Comments?
This question is based on my experience-based assumption that comment IDs are auto-incrementing. That is, previously, the general pattern I saw in comment IDs is that a new comment gets the next ...
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Question with the same post notice multiple times
I randomly stumbled upon Harmful temptations in programming (archive), which has two historical locks:
I suppose this is a bug? Another post conveniently shows that there exists an error message to ...
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With the reorganising/rebranding/renaming of the community team, does the [community-team] tag need renaming/synonymising?
The post Who is on the Community Management Department, and what does it do? was edited recently to refer it to it as the "community department".
Would creating the appropriate community-...
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Some former Community Managers' posts are missing former staff & mod labels
On this site, since 2022, posts by former employees posted while they were employed, are indicated by gray [Staff] (and where applicable, [Mod]) labels in their user card.
For some reason, this didn't ...
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Which SE sites allow you to ask questions about what the name of an object is?
I saw a mannequin at a clothing store in a department store, but I don't know what type of mannequin it is or the name of the mannequin type.
Which SE sites allow you to ask questions about what the ...
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rads.stackoverflow.com redirections are not functioning properly
Links to rads.stackoverflow.com are used to redirect (e.g. to Amazon) to add Stack Exchange's affiliate cookie. I just saw a site member on "my" site mention that the redirect was failing, ...
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What is the proper Q&A community for this particular question: "Which swimming kick is faster: the horizontal or vertical dolphin kick, and why?"
What is the proper Q&A community for this particular question: "Which swimming kick is faster: the horizontal or vertical dolphin kick, and why?"
I tried:
Fitness.SE: Which is faster: ...
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Update the number of communities on 'About Stack Exchange' to 182
The number of communities on the About Stack Exchange page has been wrong for quite a long time. I can understand if (most of) the content of that page needs to be static for performance reasons, so ...
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Why do some questions appear more than once when browsing hot network questions?
I have https://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot opened in a browser tab, with 50 per page selected.
I see the same question on page 1 and on page 2. It this a bug?
Bottom of page 1:
Top of page 2:
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Legendary Badge has become a site badge rather than a user badge
Let's face it, some Stack Exchange sites are bigger than others by a large margin. As a result, if you go to the smaller sites, even ones that have been around over a decade, on their badges page you ...
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