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For questions about Stack Exchange announcements, or announcements from the Stack Exchange team that detail recent changes across the network.

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Updates to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Use any automated or non-automated data gathering means (including but not limited to robots, spiders, scrapers, crawlers, and the like) to gather any text, files, audio or visual media, profile info …
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The company’s commitment to rebuilding the relationship with you, our community

To start off, thank you for posting this. This is the most promising thing I've seen since I stepped down as a moderator several months ago. This is the first thing I've seen that gives me an actual g …
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We're rolling back the changes to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Thank you for recognizing the mistake made, and doing the right thing with taking responsibility and rolling it back. It's appreciated. I understand that people, particularly Slate, are working on upd …
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We spent a sprint addressing your requests — here’s how it went

This is a good effort; the uptick in visible development work, even outside the flood of edits to status-review and status-deferred, was noticed and appreciated. This is pretty much exactly what we've …
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We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar

Ugh. I'm sorry, but that's my response. I'm one of the people who had it disabled for a very clear reason: I have a relatively small screen and the topbar takes up too much space, leaving me able to s …
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Rollout of new network site themes

Worldbuilding I know that the Worldbuilding.SE theme make-over hasn't been finalized and released yet, but in the ch-ch-changes post, you link to a document that includes this image: (Compare to o …
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network - January 2025

Some experiments are, of course, controlled A/B or multivariate tests, but there are many other methods of discovery testing, such as user testing, assumption testing, proof of concepts, or observati …
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Introducing the Moderator Council - and its first, pro-tempore, representatives

Good job. Both on the creation of the council itself, and of the people you've selected to be on the council. The fact that you've created the council is another step in the right direction in regai …
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Stack Overflow for Teams is now free for up to 50 users, forever

Moving my feedback from Discord to here: From the homepage redesign announcement: Something we spend a lot of time thinking about from our brand perspective is how Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow r …
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We expect some Q3 projects to be delayed

Good to hear, and thanks for letting us know - the transparency is appreciated. I've got a sneaking suspicion that one reason things have built up so much is a loss of both, well, people available to …
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Announcement: Teresa Dietrich leaves Stack

Teresa arrived in a very difficult position at a very difficult time, and I remain impressed with the skill and grace with which she handled the situation. I also had the opportunity to chat personall …
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Changes to answer sorting menu: moving menu, "Newest" sort option, renaming sort options

"Last updated" sort name. We debated internally whether "Last updated" was the clearest way to describe a sort that looks at most recently created or most recently edited. Keeping "Active" as the sor …
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Join me in Welcoming Valued Associates: #945 - Slate - and #948 - Charlotte

My exact reaction was this: "!!" I am beyond excited to work with Slate again (having previously been co-mods on Literature). I'm well aware that she has excellent skills in the moderation / community …
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Swag is coming back! (indefinitely paused)

Are there any per-site swag items (such as t-shirts), or just network and SO? A lot of the previous swag was branded for that specific site; for instance, I have a t-shirt with the Science Fiction & F …
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Changes to MSE deployment process may cause intermittent issues on November 1, 2023, between...

Thank you for the heads-up! Is this change something that has ramifications for the whole network? I'm aware that MSE is sometimes used for deploying changes as basically a production testing zone, so …
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