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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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Why are the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?
The announcement of the Code of Conduct changes (now deleted, alternative link) had a score of -1922 (with 2371 downvotes). I can't remember a change announcement being received so negatively (this ...
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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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Please don't refer to 2019 as 'a great year'
There's a bug on the Winter Bash 2019 homepage:
Stack Exchange invites you to celebrate the end of a great year …with HATS! As you use your site, you'll discover hats and other items hidden behind ...
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Please give us an easy way to flag inappropriate ads
According to a comment on Workplace Meta, the ads experiment will be running for a while:
@DavidK The experiment will last 6 months - so most of the this year. We're planning a recap at the end to ...
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What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?
What are the most downvoted questions and answers on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Meta, and Super User history to date?
Similarly, what are the most upvoted questions and answers on SO, SF, Meta, ...
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Ads on SE sites are excessively animated, irrelevant, dubious and resource-intensive
SE had very high standards for ads on Stack Overflow, ads were curated, generally static images and well-behaved. I found the stance SE took on acceptable ads admirable, and they certainly left some ...
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Checking in with moderators that suspended their activity
As of December 24th, 2019, there seem to be maybe 24 moderators who suspended activity and are still in that state as a result of the ongoing fiasco centered around SE's firing of Monica Cellio. ...
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NSFW video and annoying animated advertising on Music SE
I'm seeing this annoying animated advertisement on Music SE. Somehow saving the gif was impossible, so I recreated it as well as I could from screenshots (first image). The actual thing is even more ...
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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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Should the weight of question upvotes be increased network-wide?
Stack Exchange has expressed an interest in increasing the reputation earned from question upvotes from 5 to 10 on all sites.
Do you think this is a good idea?
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CEO Blog: The Way Forward
Hello members of the Meta Community - Hope you all are staying safe during these unprecedented times. I wanted to share my quarterly blog post that I wrote today: The Way Forward:
Three months ago,...
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Has Stack Exchange seen an outrage like the current one before?
Right now there's quite some stuff happening around the Stack Exchange network, and even spreading to outside the network itself with "The Register" covering it and other (more forum focused) sites ...
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Oy! Animated ads!
Stack Overflow delivered a little piece of coal to me, today (or I noticed it for the first time today). Animated GIFs as ads. Like, the old-school, flashy-flashy kind:
Here are two deanimated frames:...
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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 ...