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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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