Questions tagged [announcements]
For questions about Stack Exchange announcements, or announcements from the Stack Exchange team that detail recent changes across the network.
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More network sites to see advertising test [updated with phase 2]
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the network
Update December 10th, 2024
Our rate-limit on high-volume scripted requests to the network (described in bullet point 4 below) is now live. We expect that this will be the final update on this post. In ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Community Asks Sprint Announcement and Results - September 2024
Update - October 9, 2024
We were able to work on quite a few issues during this sprint, some we previously told you about in the original post below, and others that were left over from the first ...
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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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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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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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Possible delay in Data Dump release - now targeting September 5th
As you probably know, it’s time for the quarterly publication of our data (affectionately known as the “data dumps”). The process of copying, uploading, and publishing the data over a notoriously ...
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Stack Exchange reputation leagues are now listing only the top 400 users
Stack Exchange is currently in the process of migrating some of our backend infrastructure. Mostly, this migration comprises long-running behind-the-scenes work that doesn’t have an impact on the day-...
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UPDATE - MAINTENANCE COMPLETED - Site maintenance - Thursday, February 1, 2024 @ 01:00 UTC (Wednesday, January 31 @ 8:00 PM ET)
[UPDATE]: Maintenance has been completed.
We have planned maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites. The window is scheduled for Thursday, February 1, 2024 01:00 UTC- 02:...
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(COMPLETED) - Chat upgrade incoming! No feature changes, but major under-the-hood work
Update October 24, 14:30 UTC: The upgrade was successful, we're continuing to keep an eye on things.
Original post:
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We'll be deploying a new version of Chat that has significant under-the-hood ...
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COMPLETED - Site maintenance - Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 9:00 PM-11:00 PM EDT (Thursday, October 24, 1:00 UTC - Thursday, October 24, 3:00 UTC)
[UPDATE 2 - Site maintenance has been completed]
[UPDATE - The maintenance window has been expanded by one hour in order to complete the planned updates and not postpone to later have yet another day ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (October 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
TL;DR - top areas of focus include:
User activation
Iterating and scaling Staging Ground
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
We mentioned in our roadmap update that user activation was an area that we are prioritizing. In this post, we will go through the background, challenges, and opportunities that we will be focusing on....
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Community-a-thon 2024 kicks off on October 18th
TL;DR:
Our fifth Community-a-thon will kick off on October 18, 2024 and continue until October 23, 2024.
This is an annual event where staff at Stack Overflow are encouraged to participate on the ...
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Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs
Update on October 10, 2024:
As of today, Stack Overflow Jobs will be hosted on stackoverflowjobs.com. If you visit stackoverflow.jobs it will reroute to the new domain. Along with making this change, ...
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New colors launched
November 21, 2023: To help with internal managing issues, you may see a reference number added next to the status tag on your post. These numbers don't determine the order or priority of issues but ...
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (postponed)
Update - October 3, 2024: This event is now postponed.
Update - September 25, 2024: You have until October 1st to sign up
We've begun to send invites out to people who have expressed interest in ...
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Data Dumps - updates and bug fixes
Thanks to everyone who posted bug reports and feature requests related to the updated data dumps process. Below, we’ve detailed some work on those reports and requests.
Issues reported on this post:
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Upcoming changes to sign-up flow on the Stack Exchange network
Over the last couple of months, we’ve conducted several experiments surrounding some changes to the sign-up flow on Stack Overflow, all of which we’ve successfully graduated in some fashion on Stack ...
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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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How can a user unhappy with the LLM partnerships protest constructively (and ideally- effectively)?
I'm more asking this on behalf* of the many people I see trying to express protest to the OpenAI partnership in ways that get themselves into trouble:
Deleting their own posts- individual or en masse
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Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator
As of 31 July 2019, all staff member accounts have "Staff" next to their name on their user profile.
It looks like this:
(This is an updated image from the original one included in this ...
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(Completed) Site maintenance - Mon, Sept 16 2024, 21:00 UTC to Tue, Sept 17 2024, 2:00 UTC (Mon, Sept 16 2024, 5pm-10pm ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance has been completed]
We have planned network maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange users. The window is scheduled for Monday, September 16 2024, 21:00 UTC ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (July 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
TL;DR - top areas of focus include:
Community Asks quarterly event
Iterating and scaling Staging ...
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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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Let’s Encrypt chain of trust changes will affect a small number of users on Stack Exchange
tl;dr: As early as September 9th, some users accessing the site from old Android devices (running Android 7.0 and earlier) may see SSL warnings in their browser regarding an invalid certificate when ...
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2024 WeAreDevelopers Event Summary
Update August 20, 2024
The video of Prashanth's presentation at We Are Developers is now available. I have linked it at the end of the question.
Earlier today, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack ...
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Introducing an accessibility dashboard and some upcoming changes to display links
As you may have seen, we have been working on several accessibility initiatives (1, 2, 3) that touch various parts of the Stack Exchange network and the Teams business. As part of this initiative, we ...
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New top bar is live
UPDATE: TeamDAG has reviewed all of the feedback below and updated with status. We are actively working on fixes as time allows. Thanks to everyone who contributed constructive feedback.
We released ...
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How can we improve the Stack Exchange API?
The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites.
The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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We're regenerating all Gravatar identicons
We've recently discovered a vulnerability in our identicon generation process. To remedy it, we have changed how we approach generating them and regenerated all identicons. We do not have any ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance - Tuesday, July 23rd 2024, 8 PM - Midnight ET (12 AM - 4 AM UTC, Wednesday July 24 2024)
[UPDATE] Network site maintenance has been completed.
We have planned network maintenance that may impact all Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites. The window is scheduled for Tuesday, July 23rd ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Update on the Imgur migration, May 28th 2024: Migration complete!
As of today, we are pronouncing the work associated with the Imgur migration "complete" for all intents and purposes. There ...
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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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Imgur image URL migration: Coming soon to a Stack Exchange site near you!
Update on the URL migration, May 15th 2024
The work described below will be under way shortly. For further updates, we'll be maintaining the update log in the main post for the Imgur migration.
We're ...
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Stack Overflow announcement profile [duplicate]
Feature request: a Stack Overflow announcement account!
So as you all know, Stack Overflow manages a lot of the administration of the Stack Exchange network, so this is not site specific.
I just want ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance - Thursday, May 16th, 2024, 22:00 - 23:00 UTC (6 PM - 7 PM EDT)
[UPDATE - Maintenance complete]
We will be performing maintenance on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites on Thursday, May 16th, 2024, 22:00 - 23:00 UTC (6 PM - 7 PM EDT).
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We are moving the API behind our CDN
Later today or tomorrow, we will be moving the API behind our Content Delivery Network (CDN). In an effort to better align all our applications, we are moving this and, in the future, other public ...
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We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar
We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar. We didn’t change the default. We’ve only removed the ability to change the default.
According to SEDE, we’ve got ~13k users with the fixed top ...
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Updates to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) – January 2024
As part of our ongoing efforts to review and update policies, we’ve updated our Acceptable Use Policy. These changes come after a review period in which we made adjustments as a result of moderator ...
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Starting the Prompt Design Site: A New Home in our Stack Exchange Neighborhood
Update (July 25th)
We have moved the GenAI site into its Public Beta. Privileges have been set to normal public beta thresholds as well.
Update (July 13th)
As promised, you can follow along for ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 1:00 UTC (Friday March 26 9:00 PM US/EDT) [closed]
Update: The maintenance went as planned.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites may be read-only for up to 15 ...
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No April Fools 2024 prank: rationale and next steps
Many long-time community members are familiar with the annual April Fools joke that Stack Overflow has done most years, last year being an exception. We are proactively letting you know that we will ...
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Why hasn't there been an official community announcement or blogpost about charging for usage of subscriber content in the training of LLMs?
Note for any confused: "Subscriber Content" is used here in the sense of the phrase defined in the Terms of Service.
I just saw two posts (1, 2) about this Wired article: Stack Overflow Will ...
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We're switching to CommonMark
I’m Ham and I’m a developer on the Teams team here at Stack Overflow. Over the past few months, I’ve been heads down working on the way we turn Markdown into HTML when writing and editing posts across ...
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