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What's one thing that you wish we remembered?

Twice this week, I heard some permutation on the phrase "if only [they (mods, staff)] knew that we...." In the first case, it was "if only the staff knew how much time we spend on sock ...
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How'd you get started?

OK, it feels like this is tapering off a little, so I'm going to do the same thing as last week ... I'll still check in here and read, but I'm probably not going to post much more here. The next ...
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The 2022 Community-a-thon has begun!

Our third Community-a-thon kicked off today. This is a three week event that will continue through November 8th. This is an event we hold for the staff at Stack Overflow. During the course of the ...
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When should I vote?

I have seen a few questions here on Meta Stack Exchange that cover parts of this, but they are often too local, and none of them seem to cover all the relevant scenarios. I will break it up ...
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Feedback for The Loop, August 2020: Community-a-thon recap

In this month’s “The Loop” blog post, we did a deep dive and recapped our Community-a-thon event from our Q2 roadmap. I know that the Community has been eager to hear about how the event went. We ...
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2020 Community-a-thon: Increasing SE staff engagement with our sites and communities

This event has ended, for more info, please see our recap in The Loop, August: Community-a-thon and in our MSE feedback post. As was announced in the Q2 roadmap and subsequently discussed on MSE, we ...
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Your input: (Non-engineering) priorities for the community team

As you probably know, we're in the midst of planning for 2022, org-wide. One of the challenges that we've long had on the Community Team is that while it's (relatively) easy to get wish lists for ...
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MSE Feedback post: Feedback on Q3 2021 Community and Public Platform Roadmap

Reposted from the Stack Overflow Blog Hello everyone – for those who don’t know me yet, I’m Philippe, and I’m the new VP of Community here. Long time listener, first time caller… I’ve been working ...
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Community-a-thon 2023 kicks off on October 13th

TL;DR: Our fourth Community-a-thon will kick off on October 13, 2023 and continue until October 18th, 2023. This is an annual event where staff at Stack Overflow are encouraged to participate on the ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, July 29 at 12:00am UTC (Wednesday July 28 8:00 PM US/EDT)

Update: The maintenance went as planned. tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to 60 minutes on Thursday, ...
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Will there be a Community-a-thon 2023, and if so when will it begin?

After reading Rosie's post about sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash, I wanted to know if Community-a-thon will continue or not. Also, are there any pre-defined dates for Community-a-thon? Community-a-thon ...
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