Questions tagged [company]
For questions about the operations of Stack Exchange, Inc. d/b/a Stack Overflow, the company that operates the Stack Exchange network of sites.
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Lack of Company follow-through / Company failure to meet expectations
Update 2024-09-13
On 2024-Jul-12, Philippe promised a response to the community after following up with Legal:
On 2024-Jul-20, Philippe updated that he was still awaiting an update:
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Is Stack Exchange still planning to respond to the community's open letters?
On October 6th, moderators, ex-moderators, and members of the community published two open letters to Stack Exchange Inc.. These letters have, as of today, been signed 768 times (general letter) and ...
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Who currently owns Stack Exchange?
Is it Prosus, a Netherlands-based subsidiary of South African media company Naspers, who announced a deal to acquire Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion?
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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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Moderation strike: Results of negotiations
We have reached the following conclusions during negotiations between community-selected strike representatives and representatives of Stack Exchange, Inc. This aims to address most of the concerns ...
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What role does Glitch (formerly Fog Creek Software) have in the ownership of the Stack Exchange Network?
A day or two ago, I wrote a Wikipedia article about the Stack Exchange Network only to notice the new legal information pages a few hours later. Now, I want to update the article so it is as accurate ...
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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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What is Stack Overflow's business model?
I once answered a question that asked how Stack Overflow makes money, but that was before the time of VC.
Now, Stack Overflow has cash, and they have an ever-growing list of employees, but where's the ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
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On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company concluded with an agreement being reached. The details of the agreement can be found at ...
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Practical effects of the October 2023 layoff
I hope that by now you’ve all had a chance to read and digest the announcement and the blog post about today’s layoff.
This was not an easy decision to make, nor is this an easy conversation to have. ...
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Stack Exchange branded courseware
Is there any plan to implement - or maybe it's already in place somewhere - courses, especially about software development, using the same gamified, badge-based approach adopted in Q&A? I was ...
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To reach out: on Monica, the Lavender community, and the future of the Stack Exchange network
Edit: While I do stand by my personal opinion that Monica did not intend harm, I regret posting this as if my position as a queer nonbinary person allowed me to speak for whether or not Monica Did ...
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SEI's recent business decisions and concerns about its long-term financial stability and growth
Over the last several months, we've seen a number of events transpire that reflect an aggressive effort by Stack Exchange, Inc (SEI) to monetize its platform.
The removal of Monica as moderator, ...
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How is the Overflow AI VS Code extension going to compete with the GitHub Copilot Chat extension?
(When I say "you" in this post, I am addressing the Stack Exchange company)
The GitHub Copilot Chat extension already provides "agents" one can chat with to understand a project. ...
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Does Stack Overflow Inc have a 'plan B' for their current AI strategy failing?
As a long time user, I've seen SE go through multiple cycles of trying to find new revenue sources (Careers, Teams, and now AI), and when it fails we go through cycles of downsizing like the most ...
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2023 Community-a-thon recap
I announced several weeks ago that the company was holding its fourth Community-a-thon event and that after the event I’d be posting a recap as we did last year. This year’s event was different from ...
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Is Stack Overflow just a badly run company?
A well-run company is supposed to be led from the top with a good vision of what it can be. With the kind of decisions that have been made recently, I don't see that's the case.
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How is OverflowAI search going to compete with search engine + generative AI chatbot technologies?
Note: This post is primarily addressed to the company. When I say "you" in this post, I am referring to the company.
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft dropped "Copilot" / "New ...
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The Community Teams @ Stack Exchange and how we work together
I wanted to share with you about who the people that work on our Community are, and how we are organized. For context, I (Teresa Dietrich) am the head of Product, Community, Design and Engineering, a ...
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Community notice: October 2023 layoff announcement [duplicate]
I’d like to call your attention to today’s blog post from Prashanth. Unfortunately, we’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by roughly 28%. There are more details at the blog, and I ...
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May 2023 layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff
A few minutes ago, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar posted a note to our blog to share the news that Stack Overflow has made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 58 people, or about 10% of our ...
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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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Moderation strike: Conclusion and the way forward
Negotiations between strike representatives and Stack Exchange, Inc. have come to a close, with a mutually acceptable agreement being reached and announced. With that agreement being reached, we'd ...
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How does Stack Exchange destroy hard drives?
I know that SE uses hard drives for it's storage, and I also know that they do an upgrade review often (2 years I think).
When they do decide to change the hard drives, how are they destroyed / dealt ...
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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?
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
The CEO [of SE] recently posted a blog post titled CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center.
Stack Exchange staff haven't posted a request-for-comments on it, so... I ...
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Moderation Strike update: Data dumps, choosing representatives, GPT data, and where we’re holding
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On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company concluded with an agreement being reached. The details of the agreement can be found at ...
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What policies or processes exist to handle allegations that Stack Exchange has violated the Moderator Agreement?
tl;dr version: The Stack Exchange Moderator Agreement, in addition to the obligations placed on community moderators, includes eight obligations that Stack Exchange the company specifically agrees to ...
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What is "Community" in the Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow context?
I've been reading a bunch of messages from assorted staff. Some internal, such as on Meta, some in the company blog and other annoncements, and some on media releases. Most from the CEO, or C-level ...
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What is Stack Overflow Labs? Why is it sponsoring GenAI SE?
I recently noticed a new webpage: https://stackoverflow.co/labs/
What's the purpose of this new webpage? When was this created? Was there any staff announcement about this webpage?
I just got to ...
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Would the striking moderators welcome a user strike? Should we, the users, go on strike?
As we know, there is a call for a strike from the moderators on the entire network. I support the moderators.
It occurred to me, perhaps a little late, that my participating on the site as usual — ...
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What is needed for users to trust the Stack Exchange company?
As one of the "curators" on strike I follow as much of the conversations and progress as I can. I again and again encounter the trust issue, which is a festering wound that seems to be ...
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Do basically all ~1500 people on strike need to separately enter into "mandatory arbitration" after 90 days?
Currently there is an ongoing strike (Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers) which has led to (as at the time of writing)
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How does one join the new "working group"?
In today's blog post Introducing “The Loop”: A Foundation in Listening, it is mentioned,
That’s why we’re creating a working group of users made up of people from all corners of the developer ...
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Price of AI floodgates inaction
I was going to post this as an answer (among many) under @Philippe's Statement from SO: June 5, 2023 Moderator Action, but that's currently locked, apparently due to concerns about the title, out of ...
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Does Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange use Jira Service Management?
I contacted Stack Overflow a month ago using the contact page.
I received a mail on 23rd July, 2021 from [email protected]. Here's the screenshot of the email:
I was confused if this ...
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Does the Stack Overflow CEO really believe that arrogance is good and humility is bad? [closed]
In an interview with Jyoti Bansal published on LinkedIn on 13th June 2023, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar was asked:
Your one “non-negotiable” in business (or life) is:
Prashanth's ...
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How has the SE network management changed since Sept 2019?
In Sept 2019 a number of moderators and high rep users were disappointed, to say the least, with the management of the SE network. I ultimately stepped down from moderating and stopped participating ...
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The company appears to have been particularly reticent, even somewhat secretive, regarding communications during the past several months
My reading of thousands of posts here, from over most of the time period going back to shortly after SO started, indicates the company has often not done a particularly good job of communicating with ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
For posts following this one, see:
An example of a generative AI tool: Suggesting better question titles
AI/ML Tool examples part 3 - Title-Drafting Assistant
Stack Overflow will be testing a title-...
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Why is SE staff violating SE policy by un-featuring posts about the strike on per-site Metas?
There have been several cases where SE staff has removed the featured tag from per-site Meta posts in relation to the strike, despite no (public) statement from SE regarding that.
Unless there is a ...
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How is SE justifying the new AI policy?
Yes, the new AI policy is bad. However, on top of that, I am not convinced the company has any right1 to try to impose it. The first thing claimed in the Tour page of all sites is (emphasis mine):
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When posting announcements either post them as QUESTIONS so that people can actually answer or make the entire thread LOCKED if no input is wanted
Recently Stack Exchange posted a new question about a policy on AI generated content.
What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?
The post was made as a fake question, with the actual ...
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Once Jeff Atwood left the company, who became "in charge"?
Now that Jeff Atwood has moved on (see Joel's blog, and Jeff's own), who succeeded him as the ultimate authority over feature requests, change requests, cross-site policy, and the like?
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What other policies does Stack Exchange need?
It's become very apparent over the past few weeks that certain employees of Stack Exchange have not been able to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with community expectations.
The result of ...
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What does "company's moderators" mean?
In the recent Wired article, "Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data", there is the following statement:
Chandrasekar says a spike in inaccurate answers following the ...
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Would SE Inc. even be able to detect it when people use Subscriber Content to train LLMs without paying?
(context: A Wired article: Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data and Is SE [going to be] selling our content for AI model training? And what exactly does "reinvest back into our ...
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When did Stack Exchange debut?
https://stackoverflow.com/company says y'all started in 2008.
https://stackexchange.com/about says y'all started in 2010.
Which is correct?
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2022 Community-a-thon Recap
In October we announced the beginning of our third Community-a-thon event. The event took place between October 19 and November 8, 2022.
The goals for the event are similar to those from the previous ...
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Is Stack Exchange going to limit content related to work about open-source code or statistical data likely to be under a ban in the United States?
The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only against the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open ...
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