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37 questions linked to/from What does constructive criticism of a design change look like?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Responsive design now available on all sites; new theme customization coming soon
It's been a long process, but the changes we announced back in March are done. Most sites will see their new themes live for all users on November 30. Some sites with blocking issues may have to wait ...
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Bring back site-specific fonts to the new design
For example, English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing! is perceived badly, where one of the reasons were the old design looking old-fashioned, including the Serif ...
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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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Why is the “Ask a question” page still so unhelpful in 2018?
It seems to me that almost all of the drama on SO/SE is the result of "bad questions". Many thousands of programmer-hours, I'm sure, have been poured into moderation tools, voting tools, queues, tags, ...
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Why all the downvotes on “updated site theme is now live” announcements?
Why all the downvotes on "updated site theme is now live" announcements?
I have just taken a sample and found sites with downvotes:
Software Engineering's updated site theme is ready for ...
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Why do some parts of the standard theme use different fonts than the rest of the site?
We've been asked why different parts of the responsive design site theme have noticably different fonts on some sites:
As you can see, the logo and the question titles are in a serif font and ...