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Introducing an accessibility dashboard and some upcoming changes to display links
As you may have seen, we have been working on several accessibility initiatives (1, 2, 3) that touch various parts of the Stack Exchange network and the Teams business. As part of this initiative, we ...
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Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)
Could we have a neutral summing up of the issues (without any editorializing)? I will attempt to do so in an answer, big picture style. Or you could think of this as "The Story So Far" for ...
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Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites
Each Stack Exchange site should provide users the option of using a dark mode design/theme.
Why is this feature missing?
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Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
I've seen questions edited to remove the language name from the title. Won't search engines - and folks using search engines - have an easier time finding them if these "tags" are kept as ...
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We're enabling display ads on select Stack Exchange sites
We knew that the Stack Exchange Network would eventually play a bigger role in contributing to the financial end of our business, but we didn't know how long that would take. Turns out, it was roughly ...
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Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers)
Use cases:
Programming puzzles. This way the answer can be posted the same time as the question, eliminating doubt that no answer is possible for hard questions and proving that the question is not a ...
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Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?
I might want to answer my own question because:
I arrived at a solution before there were any other correct answers or I like mine better, can I still answer my own question?
I have a folder with ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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An Update On Creative Commons Licensing
We’d like to provide you with an update to our transition to version 4.0 of the CC BY-SA license. We realize that this is something that you care deeply about, and that our response to your concerns ...
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What's the recommended syntax for an image with a link?
What's the recommended syntax for an image with a hyperlink? I tried doing it
with the markdown toolbar buttons and the image and link buttons conflict
with each other, so I had to resort to HTML.
For ...
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How might the Staging Ground & the new Ask Wizard work on the Stack Exchange network?
We have been working for some time now researching ways to improve the new user onboarding process while also addressing issues with question quality from new question askers. Based on our user ...
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TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 removal for Stack Exchange services
Update (2020-02-13): This change was completed last night on the Fastly side. Most of our endpoints now have TLS 1.0 and 1.1 disabled. We’ll be addressing our direct load balancers next.
Update (2020-...
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Add a link to the timeline of a post
For the past year I have been quite active on SO and a bit on meta, but I had never heard of the timeline of a post until today in a comment on meta.
There was an announcement by Jeff Atwood two ...
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Change in roles for Jon Ericson (leaving SE)
It’s a bit surreal to be writing this post—not many people can say they left their dream job twice. Today is my last day as an employee of Stack Overflow. I’ll be joining College Confidential as their ...
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The image uploader shows "fakepath" as path when using Chrome
I'm using Chrome on Windows. FF works fine. This is on both SO and Meta. It worked just a few days ago. It's been reproduced by a few other people on Chrome in chat.
So, I can browse through my files,...
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Affiliate Ads Are Coming To The Network
Some time ago, we announced that certain SE sites will have advertising enabled. This has gone well and we're extremely thankful to everyone for their support and feedback. Because it has been ...
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Let’s improve our site navigation
A Release Candidate has been announced
A.k.a. the 2015 Questions to Answer Refactoring Konversion (QuARK)
A.k.a. the great cheese move of 2015.
TL:DR; we are looking to change the navigation of ...
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How to do a single newline
How do I do a single newline/carriage return when typing a question or answer?
For example, if I wanted to write some columns with values as in an Excel spreadsheet. I see people do it all the time, ...
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Help us identify new roles for community members
Update 2 (March 6, 23)
We made a shortlist of the most promising suggestions from the answers provided, and we then shared our findings with Philippe Beaudette, our VP of Community. After some ...
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We're more aggressively enforcing self-moderation in chat
While the timing of this post coincides with us expressing some serious concerns around how we're not doing a good job of helping and guiding Stack Overflow to remain a welcoming place for everyone, ...
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Add a strike-through to the editing interface
If you highlight some text, you can just press a button to have it automatically emphasized on indented 4 spaces for a code sample. I think it would be great if we had this feature with strike-...
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Why aren't people voting for questions?
While at least some answers from every question seem to have been up-voted as a "helpful" answer:
about 49% of questions have score of 0 or 1.
another 21% of questions have a score of 2.
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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?
While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page.
In its first paragraph the policy reads:
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How can I change my name on a Stack Exchange site?
How can I change (or remove / reset ) my name on a site in Stack Exchange network?
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Etiquette for answering your own question
Often you have a question, you can't find the answer on Stack Overflow so you search for it (or think a bit more). Having found the answer you'd like to keep a record so you can find it again later.
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What is migration and how does it work?
I posted a question which was closed as off-topic and it seems like it could fit on another site in the network. How can I go about moving it there?
What is migration?
When can a question be migrated,...
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If you're gonna talk Politics, you must respect those who disagree
This is sort of a follow-up to two past discussions:
Toward a philosophy of Chat
Does the Be Nice policy require SE users to "be nice" to people who are not SE users (e.g. public figures)?
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Announcing the Stack Overflow Student Ambassador Program
This is just an FYI — the Stack Overflow Student Ambassador Program was recently announced. Today we’d like to share what this program is and how students will be participating.
What is the Student ...
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Can I clear, or permanently delete, deleted question & answers?
Can I clear my questions & answers which are deleted?
For example, on Ask Ubuntu, I can see a list of my recently deleted answers in my profile.
I want to clear this list, I don't require an "...
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Duplicated votes are being cleaned up
It was reported on MSO that it is possible for a user to upvote or downvote more than once on a single post (resulting in reputation changes for the author for each vote).
After some data examination, ...
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CAPTCHA's not appearing - browser problem?
It has happened several times now that I have tried to answer a question on a site, and I keep getting a CAPTCHA that just will not show up!
Is there a browser setting I need to change? I'm currently ...
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Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
We mentioned last year that we were looking to rev up on additional resources for the Stack Exchange network and this announcement is meant to support that claim. Due to the increased growth of our ...
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Is Stack Exchange in violation of New York labor law, in using volunteer moderators?
Is Stack Exchange in violation of New York labor law, in using volunteer moderators?
I found a New York State Department of Labor - Division of Labor Standards
Frequently Asked Questions document, ...
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Is Gravatar a privacy risk?
I ran across the comment below at http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/02/protect-your-privacy-delete-internet-usage-tracks/#comment-58200 about Gravatar. I'm particularly curious of Meta Stack Overflow's ...
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A new (2018) update to our Terms of Service is here
But not just because it's 2018, although that's a fine reason to do a great number of things.
We're changing our Terms Of Service (ToS) shortly to address three things:
Stack Overflow For Teams is ...
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Recent color contrast changes and accessibility updates
Last month, we kicked off an initiative around accessibility. We made the announcement on MSO because originally we had intended for the rollouts to only happen on SO and on the Teams product. Once ...
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Why did the Stack Exchange Android app disappear from Google Play Store?
Stack Exchange developed two mobile apps: Stack Exchange app and Stack Overflow app.
The Stack Overflow app has been delisted for a while from the respective store:
What happened to the Stack ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance - Saturday, February 24th, 2024, 14:00 - 22:00 UTC (9 AM - 5 PM EST)
[UPDATE - Maintenance complete]
We have planned maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites. The window is scheduled for Saturday, February 24th, 2024, 14:00 - 22:00 UTC (9 ...
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CSS for textarea should resize vertical
I've noticed that on Firefox and Chrome that the textareas are resizable vertically as well as horizontally; the resize rule not having been set. I occasionally break the layout a bit when I resize ...
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CEO Blog: Some exciting news about fundraising
I’m really excited to share with you the fact that Stack Overflow just raised $85 million in our series E round of funding. I've written about the investment in detail on our blog.
As I said there, ...
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How does SO's new auto-login feature work?
SO and SU just told me I've been logged in. I'm guessing because I'm already logged into my Google account... but how does SO know that?
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Ban ChatGPT network-wide
Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned.
However, the reasons for the ban really apply to much or all of the network, and certainly for sites that are similar ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Update on the Imgur migration, May 28th 2024: Migration complete!
As of today, we are pronouncing the work associated with the Imgur migration "complete" for all intents and purposes. There ...
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Reducing the weight of our footer
As you may be aware, we’re deprecating our mobile views, so with that in mind, it would only make sense to try to reduce the page weight in the responsive views that’ll be replacing them.
Currently, ...
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Stack Overflow won't let me post code, I don't have proper "formatting"?
I was trying to answer a coding question in Java. I had some code and used <pre><code>, put my code in, then typed </pre></code>. I then came across this error when trying to ...
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The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review
You provided us with some really helpful feedback on our first draft attempt to expand our 'Be nice' policy into a formal code of conduct, and we're extremely grateful for your time, patience and ...
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What should be next for community events?
Update October 17th, 2023
We are unfeaturing this as we have given enough time for everyone to weigh in. Suffice to say we have some internal shuffling going on at the moment. You can expect to hear ...
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Announcing the Stacks Editor Beta release!
TL;DR: The Stacks Editor Beta release rolled out on July 5, 2022! To see what we've been working on, what we are working on, and what we plan to work on, check out the Stacks Editor repo on GitHub. ...
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Community Asks Sprint Announcement and Results - September 2024
Update - October 9, 2024
We were able to work on quite a few issues during this sprint, some we previously told you about in the original post below, and others that were left over from the first ...
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Testing new traffic management tool
Stack Overflow will be experimenting with some new HTTP traffic management technologies. Users should not see any negative effects. That said, we felt it would be prudent to announce that the test ...
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