Questions tagged [community]
For questions about fostering a sense of community amongst users of Stack Exchange sites
9 questions from the last 365 days
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Would it be a good idea for Stack Overflow to have Stack Overflow Fridays?
Recently on Stack Overflow's official Twitter account, there was a tweet:
What's on every developer's dream holiday wish list? 🎁✨ Stack Overflow Fridays to spend dedicated time giving back to the ...
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2024 Community-a-thon Recap
This past October, we hosted our fifth annual Community-a-thon, a special time when our team dives deep into the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange communities to experience (again) what it’s like to ...
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Community-a-thon 2024 kicks off on October 18th
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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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Upgrade plans for MathJax v3/v4
While this is not the way I wanted to announce this, it seems the cat is out of the bag. But for those who haven't noticed, as part of our Community Asks Sprint, I spent the week investigating how we ...
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Why is SE Meta so downvotish? [closed]
I see many questions on Meta SE that are very interesting to me but many long-time users are so quick to down vote. Why can't Meta SE be more inviting to new members and give real solutions to improve ...
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The state of the stack a year on : A retrospective on "Stack Exchange is failing its community"
I'm pretty sure I don't want to do this every year, but I've been randomly reminded of my old post after the downsizings before last… about 4 times in the last two weeks. It seems like a sign. I feel ...
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Options when locking an official discussion post that keep communication avenues open
We're all struggling with communication and community stress. Trust is low and people are concerned. There are lots of changes occurring and it's not always easy to follow along or keep up-to-date. ...
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Changing how community leadership works on Stack Exchange: a proposal and rough timeline
For nearly fifteen years, Stack Exchange community leadership has taken a very simple form: there is the community-at-large, and there are moderators elected by ranked-choice voting. This system is ...
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Please bring back the Community Roadmap posts
When I began work on the now defunct Community Leadership Team in early 2020, one of our early initiatives was to share details on the work being done for the community from both Community and ...
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