A helpful user notified me that ~8 links in one of my answers on Cryptography were broken. I quickly found out that the problem is that the HTML version of RFC's have moved. The original HTML versi... | Continue reading
Like so many people around the world, we are watching the tragic and unlawful invasion of Ukraine unfold. Several of the discussions on Meta and in conversations with us have raised the question of | Continue reading
I know about finding the RSS feed icon at the bottom of any "Top Questions" page, giving access to recent, featured, hot, week & month questions feeds. I also know that you can get RSS | Continue reading
For the past month, Stack Overflow has been hit by weekly DDoS attacks that progressively grew in size and scope. In each incident, the attacker(s) have been changing their methodology and respondi... | Continue reading
For the past month, Stack Overflow has been hit by weekly DDoS attacks that progressively grew in size and scope. In each incident, the attacker(s) have been changing their methodology and respondi... | Continue reading
Update 2 - 2022-01-27We've pushed some layout changes live. When reviewing the given feedback as a whole, we've identified a few major themes:Stats are too hard to pick apart, "votes" in | Continue reading
As you know, periodically we update our privacy policy. Today is one of those days: we've made a few changes to the privacy policy. The policy covers how we collect and use data on the entire netwo... | Continue reading
I've been thinking about Bitcoin recently. If you haven't heard of it, check out the link. It is essentially an electronic 'cypto-currency' that allows for micro-payments as well.If Bitcoin could | Continue reading
I’m Aaron Shekey. I’m a product designer at Stack Overflow, working on our design system, Stacks. At the time of writing this, I’ve been chipping away at our front-end for 4 years. You may recogniz... | Continue reading
Update 2 - Alright folks, got some follow-up for you. You can see I’m considering some changes over at the Stacks repo. Sidenote: did you know our front-end library is open source and y’all can see... | Continue reading
TL;DR We’re shipping system fonts as our default font stack. We plan to do this on May 10th, 2021.What?We’re planning on specifying system fonts on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network. On | Continue reading
I've seen users remark that it is not a violation of the Be Nice policy to insult people who are not SE users -- i.e. that users are only required to "be nice" to other SE users. Usually this is st... | Continue reading
Today we’re launching our Free plan on Stack Overflow for Teams.We know that sharing knowledge and async collaboration is critical to companies and teams of all sizes. We also know people need a g... | Continue reading
We have officially discontinued the Amazon book affiliate remnant ads, since despite our best efforts they don't perform well for our audience and cannot be made to perform well.We've often wonde... | Continue reading
I was wondering about the copyright of code snippets from answers. Let's say you ask a question and the solution consists of ten lines of code, which are given in an answer. Are there any restricti... | Continue reading
TL;DR: The SRE Team at Stack Overflow is announcing 3 maintenance windows. No downtime is planned but the work is classified as “risky” therefore this announcement. The maintenance is expected to ... | Continue reading
It seems that after 11 years, Geoff Dalgas - "Valued Associate #00003" - has decided to hang up his hat as a developer at Stack Exchange.That deserves... Some recognition and gratitude!... | Continue reading
I'm working on a regional project that deals with energy data collecting and reporting.There are lot of sources including the International Energy Agency (IEA) website, however for people who are ... | Continue reading
I’m really excited to share with you the fact that Stack Overflow just raised $85 million in our series E round of funding. I've written about the investment in detail on our blog.As I said there,... | Continue reading
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 acr... | Continue reading
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 acr... | Continue reading
I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question.EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these | Continue reading
I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question.EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these | Continue reading
As part of our regular efforts to increase security and keep up with the times, we will be deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for Stack Exchange services on February 12th, 2020. TLS 1.2 and above will con... | Continue reading
Less than a month ago, there was some settling of the incident with firing Monica. It's obvious that there was not a lot of approval from the community on the course of action chosen by SE, or the | Continue reading
@Shog9, a longtime Community Manager here at Stack Exchange, has just Tweeted that he is no longer working at Stack Overflow: @shog9: Well... I suddenly find myself in need of work. If anyone's | Continue reading
Stack Overflow and Monica Cellio have come to an agreement. We believe that Ms. Cellio was not acting with malicious intent. We believe she did not understand all of the nuances and full intent and | Continue reading
Stack Overflow and Monica Cellio have come to an agreement. We believe that Ms. Cellio was not acting with malicious intent. We believe she did not understand all of the nuances and full intent and | Continue reading
A Quote from the blog post about the loop stated: As our community has grown, our research needs have become more complex. With 50 million people coming to the site every month – all with unique... | Continue reading
Is Stack Exchange in violation of New York labor law, in using volunteer moderators?I found a New York State Department of Labor - Division of Labor StandardsFrequently Asked Questions document,... | Continue reading
Over the last month, Stack Overflow has violated its own policiesand precedents to cause egregious and unnecessary harm to me -- to my reputation (personal and professional), to my health, and to... | Continue reading
Over the last month, Stack Overflow has violated its own policiesand precedents to cause egregious and unnecessary harm to me -- to my reputation (personal and professional), to my health, and to... | Continue reading
The Moderator review and reinstatement processes posted 21 October 2019 have been discussed with the moderators and the two posts below reflect the agreed process for removing or reinstating modera... | Continue reading
What are Stack Overflow, Inc.'s policies regarding whether and when private or sensitive information will be shared by the company with the public, and particularly with the press?By "private | Continue reading
According to SO, they removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to change that behavior. As Monica says, [ | Continue reading
This surfaced in the apology thread, but I believe it deserves more exposure. The apology thread was posted eight days ago. In it, the idea was expressed that SE, the company, had done wrong by M... | Continue reading
We expect today’s changes to the Code of Conduct to generate a lot of questions. We’ve tried to anticipate some of the most common questions people may have here, and we’ll be adding to this list a... | Continue reading
We expect today’s changes to the Code of Conduct to generate a lot of questions. We’ve tried to anticipate some of the most common questions people may have here, and we’ll be adding to this list a... | Continue reading
We expect today’s changes to the Code of Conduct to generate a lot of questions. We’ve tried to anticipate some of the most common questions people may have here, and we’ll be adding to this list a... | Continue reading
We expect today’s Code of Conduct changes to generate a lot of questions. We’ve tried to anticipate some of the most common questions people may have here, and we’ll be adding to this list as more | Continue reading
Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,We know you know about this already, so we'll keep this brief. The past two weeks have been rough. Lots of moderators have lost confidence in you; for some, it was the f... | Continue reading
I’m David Fullerton, Stack Overflow’s CTO, responsible for the product, engineering, and community teams.I joined Stack Overflow in 2010 because I believed in the vision and mission of Stack Over... | Continue reading
Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to c... | Continue reading
Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to c... | Continue reading
Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to c... | Continue reading
Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to c... | Continue reading
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no | Continue reading
Effective today, all Subscriber Content on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network will be available under the terms of version 4.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) l... | Continue reading