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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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