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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network

We are happy to announce that the previously announced follow question and answer feature is now live across the Network, including Stack Overflow, all Stack Exchange sites, and all Meta sites. (...
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Please do not use Stack Overflow to promote social causes

I am completely uninterested in being badgered about social causes when I visit a site for expertise. I literally do not care what the cause is. I don't care which political groups support it even if ...
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"Stack Overflow Isn't Very Welcoming" especially [...] marginalized groups?

In today's blog post "Stack Overflow isn't very welcoming" Jay Hanlon writes: Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of ...
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We spent a sprint addressing your requests — here’s how it went

You may have noticed posts getting status-completed at an unusually high rate last week — there’s a reason for that, which I’ll get into further down. But first, some context for those who might need ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (March 2024)

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a heads-up that we’d be sharing updates on community product initiatives that we’re planning on focusing on over the upcoming months. Des, our Director of Product, shared ...
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Upcoming sign-up experiments related to tags

Update August 29, 2024 We launched the recent tags experiment on Stack Overflow. A bug is currently causing it to show up network-wide. We are working to correct that, but if you find yourself ...
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process

UPDATE August 29, 2024 This new post has updates related to various bug reports and feature requests. UPDATE August 14, 2024 Over the past week we’ve scaled up the availability of the new page and ...
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Request: Require moderators to leave a message they themselves type, when closing a post

Some of my question posts have been closed with "off topic" or "lacking context" and nothing more than a generic link to the guidelines. After reading those I then still see no ...
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Our partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI

Today, we announced an exciting new partnership with Google to bring Google's Gemini to Stack Overflow and to provide Stack Overflow content directly within Google Cloud. The story of this partnership ...
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Our Partnership with OpenAI

Update May 14, 2024 I know there have been a lot of questions and comments around attribution. I recently answered a question related to both and am linking to it here for visibility. Today, we ...
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