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2020-01-13: Firing (for the lack of better term) of community managers Shog9 and Robert Cartaino. Shorty followed by an official dry reply

2020-01-15: George Stocker starts a GoFundMe campaign to thank Shog9 for cultivating Stack Overflow

2020-02-10: Update of the official policy on handling featured posts. While the previously introduced 24-hour policy (see item above) is rendered inactive, the new policy covers a much wider range of cases when and why the post can be unfeatured or deemed unable to be featured

2020-01-13: Firing (for the lack of better term) of community managers Shog9 and Robert Cartaino. Shortly followed by an official dry reply.

2020-01-15: George Stocker starts a GoFundMe campaign to thank Shog9 for cultivating Stack Overflow.

2020-02-10: Update of the official policy on handling featured posts. While the previously introduced 24-hour policy (see item above) is rendered inactive, the new policy covers a much wider range of cases when and why the post can be unfeatured or deemed unable to be featured.

• Area 51 does not have any active moderators (Shog9 and Robert were moderating it)
• Ask Patents does not have any active moderators (Robert was moderating it)
• Space Exploration's upcoming moderator elections will be problematic due to low expressed interest and candidates suspending their intentions.
• Worldbuilding has only one active moderator left
• Expatriates has only one active moderator left
• Christianity has only one active moderator left
• Arts & Crafts has only one moderator left
• Code Golf has only one moderator left

• Area 51 does not have any active moderators (Shog9 and Robert were moderating it)
• Ask Patents does not have any active moderators (Robert was moderating it)
• Computer Graphics does not have any active moderators (one mod last seen Oct 2019)
• Worldbuilding has only one active moderator left
• Expatriates has only one active moderator left
• Christianity has only one active moderator left
• Arts & Crafts has only one moderator left
• Code Golf has only one moderator left

At the bare minimum, as a result:

2020-02-20: Teresa Dietrich, the new Head of Product and Community, has posted a message (and response, of sorts) to the community.

At the bare minimum, as a result: