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Use this tag for questions about the past of Stack Exchange. What was done back in the day, why it was done, and why we *don't* do it now.
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
December 2016
2016-12-08: Migrated questions are deleted automatically 30 days after being rejected.
November 2016
2016-11-28: Questions that have been "randomly poked by the Community user" to th …
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
November 2017
2017-11-16: The new top bar is now live on stackexchange.com
2017-11-13: All Website fields and links in the "About Me" network profile sections are now unlinked on stackexchange.com …
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
December 2020
2020-12-16: In chat, moderators now have a diamond next to their name on chat messages, and their name is now italicized, whereas previously, their name was merely written in blue with …
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
December 2021
2021-12-07: [DMV] New responsive Activity page: horizontal navigation turned into vertical, most of the sections rearranged and placed in one column instead of two, each section now ha …
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Moderators (mods) have diamonds, why?
I don't think Jeff really spent that much time when deciding to use the diamond character.
But from the top of me head here are some possible reasons, in case he did give it some thought:
Diamond i …
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Accepted
Founders of the Stack Exchange network
Taken from Stack Exchange About page:
Where did Stack Exchange come from?
In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created a site called Stack Overflow and brought together millions of computer programm …
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What does 'StackExchange' mean?
Stack Exchange is the short form of "Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform", which was the original name of the platform.
This is officially confirmed by Joel Spolsky in this comment:
that was a …
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Is reputation requirement for commenting from the start or was it introduced later?
I strongly believe the requirement of 50 reputation points to post a comment was there from the very beginning of Stack Overflow, when it emerged from its private beta phase.
As Jeff mentions in Podc …
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How is it possible that this question has a (deleted) answer with a lower post ID?
Looks like it has been fixed now, as https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5 now redirects to the proper page which is question #2 - https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2/sync-meta-user-accoun …
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