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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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We've drastically simplified the user deletion process!
The short of the story here is that we have a brand new deletion process now live on all network sites, and it's simpler than it's ever been!
Why a new deletion process?
Well, the old one was pretty ...
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Should Stack Exchange Inc promote its pet projects on meta sites?
Recently, on Meta Stack Overflow at least, Stack Exchange staff have made questions posts in order to promote projects outside of the scope of the Q&A network.
Some recent examples:
An ...
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Hide employee reputation points on per-site Metas
Stack Overflow is growing, and an increasing number of employees do not have a lot of reputation points on the SE main sites.
Many of them are interacting with the community on the respective Meta ...
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Has our policy towards political discussions on SE sites changed?
Traditionally SE site users, moderators, and CMs have discouraged political conversation on main site posts, meta site posts, comments, and site-specific chat rooms.
Recently, SE's CEO shared a ...
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New Feedback Tag – [product-discovery]
As a product team, we’re taking a look at our end-to-end product development lifecycle and identifying points where project work has reached a milestone that can be shared with you for input. We ...
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Blog vs meta announcements
Why are important (or what is criteria?) announcements made in the blog and not on corresponding meta sites?
I don't like the blog format. I do like Q&A where important problems are risen as ...
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An official way of closing announcements on Meta?
Currently, many announcements are closed using reasons such as
off-topic (custom reason)
The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review
off-topic (can no longer be ...
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New lock type: "Official Announcement Lock" [duplicate]
I have wanted to propose something along these lines, but a comment by rjzii stated it very well:
@GeorgeStocker In all fairness, an official SE post should just be locked from the beginning as a ...
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Maybe we need a 'generic' account for some staff activities
Every year, we end up needing to get community managers to get someone to change the selected answer for this post. If I understand correctly, this needs a bit of a special tool or developer time. We ...
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Why isn't tag [announcements] a red moderator tag?
Sub-question: Is it true that all Stack Exchange employees are moderators of Meta.SE?
I find there no point in leaving announcements as a regular tag, because everyone can post questions that carry ...
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Add strings from the Moderator Agreement page into Transifex (or use existing keys) [duplicate]
https://ru.stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement
We, as mods, have to accept the new agreement. And on this page there are a lot of strings that were not translated:
Accept.
Decline.
Moderator ...
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Specify again which Community bot process deleted a question [duplicate]
In the days of yore (i.e. before last Monday or so), on questions deleted automatically deleted by Community, one could see which process caused it to be deleted, e.g. RemoveDeadAbandonedQuestions. ...
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