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Updates to the 2024 Q4 Community Asks Sprint

TL;DR We will not hold a Community Ask Sprint this quarter, but instead, will try using a two week sprint in March 2025. In the previous two quarters, we have held Community Asks Sprints where all ...
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Our robots.txt file is changing to allow only CloudFlare's verified bots

I’m elo, Stack Exchange’s Director of Reliability Engineering. I’ve been employed at Stack Exchange for just over three years - but this is my first time posting here on Meta! On December 10th, our ...
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Launching “We’ll Be in Touch” as a new Stack Overflow Podcast series

I wanted to announce a fun new project I’ve been working on with the Stack Overflow Content Team to launch a new podcast series. We’re launching a new show called "We’ll Be in Touch," ...
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(COMPLETED) Public Site API Maintenance -Wed, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thurs, November 21, 03:00 UTC - Thurs, November 21, 04:00 UTC)

Update: API maintenance has been completed. We will be doing a quick failover test of api.stackexchange.com on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thursday, November 21, 03:00 UTC - ...
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We are performing maintenance on our authentication service on November 19th

On November 19th, 2024 (next Tuesday), we’ll be performing maintenance on our authentication service, which controls user sessions and logins, in order to migrate it to Google Cloud Platform. We ...
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We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!

Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspect ...
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