So being on this site for a few years, it feels like I have to do more administrative work than actually help people. I comment and flag more than actually answering interesting questions. It has b... | Continue reading
Over the course of the next few weeks, you may see some changes to the content in the right-sidebar on Stack Overflow, and I am here to let you know what to expect.For background, as you probably ... | Continue reading
tl;drWe'll be using stackoverflow.co as our main domain name for marketing activities - all products on stackoverflow.com will stay the same. We'll start transitioning today with /company, and the | Continue reading
Today I've noticed a blue bar suggesting I take a "how are we doing? site satisfaction" survey.I ask that the bar be taken down and the survey scrapped. Why? Well, several reasons.The s... | Continue reading
TL;DR – On March 31, 2022, we will discontinue Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story. This includes all job listings, saved searches, applications, messages, recommended job matches, job ads, dev... | Continue reading
I happened to look at blockchain and it says (quoting from somewhere):record transactions between two parties efficientlyThe chains for Bitcoin and Ethereum are anything but efficient in terms of | Continue reading
Last week, as part of our Outdated Answers project, we ran a test on Stack Overflow to see what would happen if we stopped pinning the accepted answer to the top of the list of answers. As expected, | Continue reading
What do I get once I hit 100,000 reputation? I'm getting close.I remember Telerik was handing out licenses at 10,000. | Continue reading
This question cannot be rendered.Simple multi-colored textarea based editorneither on question view, or list view.The bug is triggered by adding <textarea> or some other tag to the title,... | Continue reading
This question cannot be rendered.Simple multi-colored textarea based editorneither on question view, or list view.The bug is triggered by adding <textarea> or some other tag to the title,... | Continue reading
Stack Overflow has no AAAA record and is not reachable via IPv6, are there any reasons not supporting IPv6?This question has been discussed on Stack Exchange a few times (7 years ago!) but now in ... | Continue reading
Beta release of Collectives on Stack OverflowOver the past year, our Reach & Relevance team (description of the team in FAQ) has been heads down working on a new initiative that will enhance the | Continue reading
Beta release of Collectives on Stack OverflowOver the past year, our Reach & Relevance team (description of the team in FAQ) has been heads down working on a new initiative that will enhance the | Continue reading
As I mentioned last month, the next step in the Outdated Answers initiative is an exercise for flagging outdated answers. Starting May 13, you may see temporary prompts on Stack Overflow that ask i... | Continue reading
In our blog post last month on our Community & Public Platform strategy & roadmap for Q1 2021, we announced an initiative to address outdated answers on Stack Overflow. Today, I'll give you... | Continue reading
Update (2020-12-29 19:00 -07:00): As noted by gerrit0 in a comment, it appears that the https://port70.net/ site is back up and running normally. This specific crisis is averted, but SO should pro... | Continue reading
What are the specific, short, medium and long term efforts by the SO team to reduce the overhead of weeding through answers containing outdated or outright inaccurate information?I'm asking about | Continue reading
The following "promoted" tweet has shown up repeatedly in my twitter timeline as an advertisement for the SO podcast. LinkThe claim it makes---that a photo is taken of anyone who edits | Continue reading
I received the below email, likely because I'm a member of the Moderator Team:Hi there,I'm Megan from Stack Overflow for Teams, and I'm trying to boost ourreviews on the G2 website.Would you m... | Continue reading
I just noticed that Gordon Linoff reached today, August 20, 2020, a million points of reputation:This comes after an astonishing amount of 71,839 answers (and 0 questions!). He only joined in 201... | Continue reading
We just announced a new feature test for the "thank you" reaction on The Overflow blog.We discovered that “thanks” appears in 1 of 6 comments left under answers. Although it's less commo... | Continue reading
We just announced a new feature test for the "thank you" reaction on The Overflow blog.We discovered that “thanks” appears in 1 of 6 comments left under answers. Although it’s less commo... | Continue reading
I have a shell script that fails saying there's no such file or directory.This error message seems clear to me, but when I post about it, I'm being asked to include the full and complete error me... | Continue reading
The c tag is being displayed with what appears to be a Qt icon (and the qt tag is not).Tag wiki (Screenshot below) | Continue reading
I see that many moderators have resigned, citing some issues I don't know about. I don't know any of these moderators, I have no emotional connection to them, and so I don't care personally about t... | Continue reading
I see that many moderators have resigned, citing some issues I don't know about. I don't know any of these moderators, I have no emotional connection to them, and so I don't care personally about t... | Continue reading
A while ago, Stack Exchange removed "Hot Meta Posts" from Stack Overflow's sidebar (the "Community Bulletin"). To compensate for this algorithmic selection of questions, they gave St... | Continue reading
Effective immediately, I am resigning from my position as moderator on Stack Overflow. I will no longer actively participate on the site or network sites. I will move whatever discussions I can wit... | Continue reading
Those of you who suffer from banner blindness may not have noticed the announcement:Stack Overflow is changing the reputation scoring system to make the reputation earned from upvotes on questions | Continue reading
Those of you who suffer from banner blindness may not have noticed the announcement:Stack Overflow is changing the reputation scoring system to make the reputation earned from upvotes on questions | Continue reading
Stack Overflow had a security incident back in May, in which a small amount of user data was compromised. This received a lot of attention, and the company did a great job communicating their initial | Continue reading
It saddens me and breaks my heart in a lot of ways to do so, so I'd like to explain very briefly "why".Can't say much because I'd have to plagiarise George Stocker's resignation notice and he's | Continue reading
I'm resigning as a Stack Overflow Moderator.Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to make this Q&A site what it is.I'm resigning for three reasons:Stack Overflow Inc. has forgotten ho... | Continue reading
This may be one of the most common quandaries I have when looking through Stack Overflow questions, when the author has written an obviously off-topic but genuine question such asTitle Windows... | Continue reading
By now, everyone who follows technology should be aware of the scandals around Facebook's ethics and data privacy. Many users distrust them and are uncomfortable with their data collection practice... | Continue reading
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today.I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a monume... | Continue reading
PrologueEarlier today, I resigned as a moderator on both Stack Overflow and Ebooks. I feel I owe this community some attempt at an explanation. Please understand that I cannot offer a full explan... | Continue reading
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today.I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a monume... | Continue reading
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today.I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a monume... | Continue reading
UPDATE: Caleb has posted a very well thought-out summary that lends some much-needed clarity to the central issues involved.I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective t... | Continue reading
What is AM/PM called? has been a popular question for 8 years (+164-4 votes, 8 stars), and in fact is the #1 Google hit for "What is AM/PM called?", and is also linked from the top-5 hit "What is the | Continue reading
For a while now, we've seen a breakdown in communication between Stack Overflow and the community, however, more recently, we've seen this relationship deteriorate rapidly.It has become a trend t... | Continue reading
By now, everyone who follows technology should be aware of the scandals around Facebook's ethics and data privacy. Many users distrust them and are uncomfortable with their data collection practice... | Continue reading
tl;dr: We're removing the "Hot Meta Posts" from Stack Overflow's sidebar while we work on looking at how Meta can better meet its goals. To ensure that moderators are able to bring important posts ... | Continue reading
I've searched high and low and cannot find a price list for posting a job on Stack Overflow. Is there a webpage - ideally one that can be viewed without logging in - that lists the cost of posting ... | Continue reading
I often have my browser's devtools open since I'm often debugging a snippet. I noticed this message often recently:Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?Update.I see it's from an ad?h... | Continue reading
I will start off by saying that I'm a bit of an oddball. I browse exclusively in private browsing mode. When I'm logged in to Stack Overflow and close a tab, I'm no longer logged in. So despite | Continue reading
I often have my browser's devtools open since I'm often debugging a snippet. I noticed this message often recently:Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?Update.I see it's from an ad?h... | Continue reading