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2019-07-31: Stack Exchange employees (users with the staff bit on their account) are now given a special "Staff" marker in their user profile description. Additionally, the old "moderator" user profile mark has a new style.

2019-07-25: Users can now suggest edits to answers to locked questions.

2019-07-25: Question statistics (the asking date, number of views, and last active date) now appear under the title before the line that separates the content, rather than in the sidebar.

2019-07-24: The spam/abuse flag deletion thresholds on English Language & Usage and The Workplace were set back to 6 to match the rest of the network. (Previously, only three red flags were necessary to delete posts as spam or abusive on these sites.)

2019-07-24: “Hot Meta Posts” was removed from Stack Overflow's sidebar.

2019-07-11: Unread inbox notifications now use bold text and a darker background color to increase accessibility. The text color of the search box was also made brighter.

2019-07-01: The release of Custom Filters (formerly known as Custom Question Lists) for building more tailored views of questions around your specific needs as well as the ability to save those lists for quick access later.

2019-07-31: Stack Exchange employees (users with the staff bit on their account) are now given a special "Staff" marker in their user profile description. Additionally, the old "moderator" user profile mark has a new style.

2019-07-25: Users can now suggest edits to answers to locked questions.

2019-07-25: Question statistics (the asking date, number of views, and last active date) now appear under the title before the line that separates the content, rather than in the sidebar.

2019-07-24: The spam/abuse flag deletion thresholds on English Language & Usage and The Workplace were set back to 6 to match the rest of the network. (Previously, only three red flags were necessary to delete posts as spam or abusive on these sites.)

2019-07-24: “Hot Meta Posts” was removed from Stack Overflow's sidebar.

2019-07-11: Unread inbox notifications now use bold text and a darker background color to increase accessibility. The text color of the search box was also made brighter.

2019-07-01: The release of Custom Filters (formerly known as Custom Question Lists) for building more tailored views of questions around your specific needs as well as the ability to save those lists for quick access later.

2019-07-??: Images inside a post that has been deleted through spam or offensive flags are now automatically deleted.

2019-12-22: Protected question notices are no longer shown to users who have enough reputation to answer, but not enough reputation to unprotect the question.

2019-12-20: The period of time for closed questions to enter the reopen queue in response to an edit was increased from 5 days to 70 days.

2019-12-19: "Migrated from" notices are now hidden if the question was migrated more than 60 days ago.

2019-12-15: The confirmation dialog for protecting questions now uses a small Stacks design popup next to the button instead of a JS browser confirmation dialog.

2019-12-12: Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges are now awarded per individual post (question or answer) rather than counting clicks on shared links to answers toward the parent question.

2019-12-11: It is now possible for moderators to prevent users from commenting on a specific post, without having to fully lock it.

2019-12-07: The automatic comment when voting to close a question as a duplicate has been changed to say "Does this answer your question? [x]" instead of "Possible duplicate of [x]".

2019-12-06: New Post Notices are live network-wide.

2019-12-03: Close and reopen vote threshold lowered on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.

2019-12-22: Protected question notices are no longer shown to users who have enough reputation to answer, but not enough reputation to unprotect the question.

2019-12-20: The period of time for closed questions to enter the reopen queue in response to an edit was increased from 5 days to 70 days.

2019-12-19: "Migrated from" notices are now hidden if the question was migrated more than 60 days ago.

2019-12-15: The confirmation dialog for protecting questions now uses a small Stacks design popup next to the button instead of a JS browser confirmation dialog.

2019-12-12: Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges are now awarded per individual post (question or answer) rather than counting clicks on shared links to answers toward the parent question.

2019-12-11: It is now possible for moderators to prevent users from commenting on a specific post, without having to fully lock it.

2019-12-07: The automatic comment when voting to close a question as a duplicate has been changed to say "Does this answer your question? [x]" instead of "Possible duplicate of [x]".

2019-12-06: New Post Notices are live network-wide.

2019-12-03: Close and reopen vote threshold lowered on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.

2019-12-22: Protected question notices are no longer shown to users who have enough reputation to answer, but not enough reputation to unprotect the question.

2019-12-19: "Migrated from" notices are now hidden if the question was migrated more than 60 days ago.

2019-12-15: The confirmation dialog for protecting questions now uses a small Stacks design popup next to the button instead of a JS browser confirmation dialog.

2019-12-12: Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges are now awarded per individual post (question or answer) rather than counting clicks on shared links to answers toward the parent question.

2019-12-11: It is now possible for moderators to prevent users from commenting on a specific post, without having to fully lock it.

2019-12-07: The automatic comment when voting to close a question as a duplicate has been changed to say "Does this answer your question? [x]" instead of "Possible duplicate of [x]".

2019-12-06: New Post Notices are live network-wide.

2019-12-03: Close and reopen vote threshold lowered on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.

2019-12-22: Protected question notices are no longer shown to users who have enough reputation to answer, but not enough reputation to unprotect the question.

2019-12-20: The period of time for closed questions to enter the reopen queue in response to an edit was increased from 5 days to 70 days.

2019-12-19: "Migrated from" notices are now hidden if the question was migrated more than 60 days ago.

2019-12-15: The confirmation dialog for protecting questions now uses a small Stacks design popup next to the button instead of a JS browser confirmation dialog.

2019-12-12: Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges are now awarded per individual post (question or answer) rather than counting clicks on shared links to answers toward the parent question.

2019-12-11: It is now possible for moderators to prevent users from commenting on a specific post, without having to fully lock it.

2019-12-07: The automatic comment when voting to close a question as a duplicate has been changed to say "Does this answer your question? [x]" instead of "Possible duplicate of [x]".

2019-12-06: New Post Notices are live network-wide.

2019-12-03: Close and reopen vote threshold lowered on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.