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TLDR: We are making some UX improvements to Coding Challenges, and releasing a new challenge each day during the week of September 15, 2025. A challenge a day keeps boredom away Each day next week, ...
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A long time ago, we experimented with prompting users to answer more questions after they posted an answer. We saw promising results, but priorities shifted and the changes were never graduated. After ...
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The company is working to simplify, improve, and consolidate the question asking experience for users new and old on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. We are rolling out a few more ...
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New users frequently report to us that they view Stack Overflow as a slow place to get answers to problems that they face. Their perceptions are often rooted in the belief that many posts go ...
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The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Update on June 16, 2025 This experiment is being extended through July 15th. Challenge 3 will be posted on June 17th, and challenge 4 will be posted on July 1st. All challenge posts can be seen at ...
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Thank you to everyone who engaged in the recent Meta post: A discussion about closed (and potentially useful) posts on Stack Overflow. This post sparked lively debate, you can see it just by looking ...
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As we all know well: Stack Overflow’s Q&A model is designed to deliver precise, canonical answers to specific programming problems. Over the years, this focus has built a valuable knowledge base, ...
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On Wednesday, February 5th, the Stack Overflow homepage at https://stackoverflow.com will begin redirecting to the questions page for anonymous (logged out) users. Currently, anonymous users landing ...
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Update April 10th, 2025 This feature has been graduated. Voting increased with both lower-rep users and high-rep users. Update January 16th, 2025 This morning, we expanded the vote prompt and popover ...
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Starting today, logged-out users on Stack Overflow will see a banner with a survey to join our research panel. This simply means opting in to be contacted to participate in future research ...
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In June, we asked you for your thoughts on what you thought would make a good homepage. After reviewing the feedback, we wanted to share the takeaways and a starting point for where we think we can ...
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The WSO2 Collective will be decommissioned on July 17. Questions and answers that were part of the Collective will not be affected, apart from the removal of collective-specific markup. All published ...
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Update on May 6th, 2024: Thank you for taking time to share your feedback for the upcoming survey. We have concluded reviewing these suggestions. The time has come to ask you to vet our latest ...
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April 17th, 2024 update: All the steps we had planned for our rampdown are now complete. If you have any outstanding questions, please let us know in the comments or answers below. Six months ago we ...
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Ryan Polk, our new(ish) Chief Product Officer, has published his first blog post, which speaks to the path to socially responsible AI and his vision for the place that Stack Overflow has in that. As ...
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Today, the Mobile Development Collective is launching on Stack Overflow. In case you’re new to Stack Overflow or want a refresher, collectives helps users find trusted answers faster, connect with ...
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UPDATE: Dec 13, 2023 - Discussions flag reasons are now available. This week, we are expanding the Discussions experiment to the R Language, CI/CD, and PHP Collectives. Moving beyond the initial ...
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Discussions are now available within the following collectives: CI/CD Collective NLP Collective PHP Collective R Language Collective Today (August 21, 2023), Stack Overflow is launching an ...
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As we previously shared, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, is speaking at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress. You can check out this recap to learn more about some of the features ...
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Today, the PHP Collective is launching on Stack Overflow. Why PHP? After launching the R Language Collective earlier this year, we wanted to launch another collective focused on a specific language. ...
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UPDATE: We have concluded our tests of the native banner ads on Stack Overflow on July 20th, 2023. With your feedback on this post and the ads’ performance metrics, we have gathered sufficient ...
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Today, collectives got some design updates, notably an updated layout for the header and menu. Also included in these updates is a redesigned Overview page, which changes that initial landing page ...
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Update on May 3rd, 2023: Thank you for all the comments and suggestions! We have collected your responses and have completed reviewing your suggestions for the survey. It is that time of year again ...
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Update Our experiment incorporating machine learning (ML) to improve the relevance of related questions has concluded. Thank you to everyone who provided valuable feedback on that experiment. It is ...
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