Firing Mods and Forced Relicensing

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


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies

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 a community moderator for no good reason. It ... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Firing mods and stealing content: Stack Exchange cooperating with community?

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 a community moderator for no good reason. It ... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

StackExchange attempts to unilaterally relicense user contributions

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


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

What Is the XY Problem?

What is the XY problem?When asking questions, how do I recognize when I'm falling into it? How do I avoid it?Return to FAQ index | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow Are Moving to CC By-SA 4.0

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


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow Are Moving to CC-by-SA 4.0

Effective today, all Subscriber Content on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange network will be available under the terms of version 4.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) licen... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

StackExchange moves 29 sites out of beta

If you're a user on a long-toiling beta site that's been waiting 7-8 years to get out of beta, this may be the post you've been waiting for.The 29 Beta sites that are 7+ years old no longer have ... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?

This is pretty much a follow-up to this meta announcement by SE. Ideally that announcement would have resolved the issue, but the language in it was vague and evasive, and there have been no | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Stack Overflow will continue to allow user fingerprinting in ads

After a thorough investigation and inquiry, we were able to get an update on this. The ads in question were not intending to start audio but were rather checking to see if there was an audio player | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Stack Overflow Is Not Trying to Start Audio

After a thorough investigation and inquiry, we were able to get an update on this. The ads in question were not intending to start audio but were rather checking to see if there was an audio player | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Stack Exchange Begins Testing Ads

For several years we've had advertising solely on technology-related sites. But many of our sites aren't about technology at all, so we haven't sold ads for them. Traditionally, that hasn't been a | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Stack Exchange now allowing animated advertising on their site

For several years we've had advertising solely on technology-related sites. But many of our sites aren't about technology at all, so we haven't sold ads for them. Traditionally, that hasn't been a | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Implement ```-style (fenced) Markdown code blocks

Currently, Stack Exchange’s Markdown parser only allows four-space indents to represent code blocks: // some code // another line of codeGitHub Flavored Markdown and other Markdown | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

Who cut the cheese?

We've moved quite a bit of stuff around this year, and you've been mostly patient with us while we overhauled our information architecture. This was no trivial needs more pop and a lens flare type of | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

The Road to .NET Core – Please Help Stack Exchange Test EF Core – Meta

Here at Stack Overflow we're migrating many things to .NET Core. Along the way we have to swap out parts that existed in the old .NET world but don't in the new.Now that we've safely diverged our | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

StackExchange is moving to .NET Core

Here at Stack Overflow we're migrating many things to .NET Core. Along the way we have to swap out parts that existed in the old .NET world but don't in the new.Now that we've safely diverged our | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

Stack Exchange: Come Take a Look at Our New Contributor Indicator

We've been doing quite a bit of research into ways that we could help new users have better experiences that ultimately lead them to becoming increasingly valuable, long-term contributors to our si... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

Corporate Stack Exchange wants to be nice – users basically say “no”

tl;dr: We've put together a code of conduct (CoC) that is a bit more comprehensive than our existing be nice policy because we feel that our current policy isn't meeting our needs. Some backgr... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

We'd like your feedback on our new Code of Conduct

tl;dr: We've put together a code of conduct (CoC) that is a bit more comprehensive than our existing be nice policy because we feel that our current policy isn't meeting our needs. Some backgr... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

SO ends support for OpenID

NOTE: We are changing the date for ending OpenID support from August 15, 2018 to July 25, 2018. Notifications to the affected users are going out today and we will follow up with another round in two | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

Stack Exchange: Brace yourselves: The GDPR is coming

It's actually nothing to worry about. You as users end up with more protection, and companies like us are left in a place where we've got a framework for handling your information that puts much st... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 5 years ago

StackExchange/Overflow adds Arbitration Clause

But not just because it's 2018, although that's a fine reason to do a great number of things.We're changing our Terms Of Service (ToS) shortly to address three things:Stack Overflow For Teams is | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 6 years ago

We're more aggressively enforcing self-moderation in chat

While the timing of this post coincides with us expressing some serious concerns around how we're not doing a good job of helping and guiding Stack Overflow to remain a welcoming place for everyone... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 6 years ago