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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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Please consider gathering Meta feedback before the “ship” stage
The blog post "The Loop #1: How we conduct research on the Community team" sheds a little light on how the current process for making changes on Stack Exchange works.
Today, our research process ...
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Open hostility from SE staff towards the community - trying to understand it
Upon multiple occasions SE staff members have expressed open hostility towards the community as a whole, as well as towards specific members of the community. Specific references are avoided here ...
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Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
This feature is now live across the network.
We've been doing quite a bit of research into ways that we could help new users have better experiences that ultimately lead them to becoming increasingly ...
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Dear Stack Exchange: a statement and a letter from your moderators
Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,
We know you know about this already, so we'll keep this brief. The past two weeks have been rough. Lots of moderators have lost confidence in you; for some, it was the ...
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Should Senior Stack Exchange Community Members be enabled to vote Stack Exchange Executive Staff off the payroll?
Stack Exchange Executive Staff will be under the impression - as company executive staff generally are - that the company is theirs.
But Stack Exchange is an unusual organisation very much based on a ...
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How can one appropriately and constructively criticize or complain about a Stack Exchange employee on Meta Stack Exchange?
Related: Is this an appropriate place to call for the resignation of an SO employee?
In an answer to the question above, Shog9 ♦ mentioned that calling for a staff member's immediate removal can be ...
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Are we creating divisions in our quest to make new users welcome?
One of the more frequent accusations that get leveled against long-time users of various sites is that we treat new user questions differently. That we downvote and close vote them maliciously, to "...
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How successful has Stack Exchange's “teams” been so far?
How successful has the Private Q&A option been so far?
Free up resources
It’s expensive and time-consuming to answer the same questions over and over. By making the right information ...
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What changes have resulted from SE network sites becoming a source of income?
Nearly three years ago, display ads stopped being an SO-only thing and came to some other relevant sites. More recently, this programme widened to include affiliate ads on most sites. Both times, one ...
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New Resources for Our Stack Exchange Network
It's nice to be here!
Hello, fellow humans! My name is Juan M and I’ve served as the Community Manager of Stack Overflow en español as well as the Manager for the International Stack Overflow ...
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Reduce number of questions from the same site in the Hot Network Questions on the right sidebar
Sometimes multiple questions from one site could be chosen to show on the HNQ list.
This looks rather ugly, especially when this list is truncated to 5 or less questions - it feels as if the system ...
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The NEW new “Be Nice” Policy (“Code of Conduct”) — Updated with your feedback [duplicate]
Update: Thanks for all the additional feedback below. We incorporated a lot of your suggestions, and this is going live (as https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice).
We're also looking at ways ...
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What are the effective communication channels for effecting change to SE?
It seems clear at this point that MSE is not a useful mechanism for pointing out problems on SE sites and getting resolution for them.
It is useful in some ways. If SE staff ask questions about ...
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Tell answer-author when the question is being voted to close
When I am in the editor writing an answer to a question, the system will notify me (in real time!) when another answer has been posted. This is presumably so I can see if the new answer may have ...