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46 questions linked to/from Announcing a change to the data-dump process
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GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes
In a meeting with some moderators last week, I committed to releasing the data sets from our initial studies around the efficacy and false positive rates of ChatGPT detectors to them. Tuesday ...
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Join us for our first community-wide AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Stack Overflow’s CEO (and a few others) on February 26, 2025
Stack Overflow Live Q&A YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6-3J7G_XX0s
On February 26, 2025, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST (20:00 to 21:30 UTC), Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar will ...
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June 2023 Data Dump is missing
The data dump usually gets refreshed the first weekend of the month, every 3 months.
The current data dump is still from March. Is there just a problem and it's delayed like in the past?
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What can be cut away, and why?
In my last question, I asked what you thought the public really needed from us, with the goal of seeding discussion around our common identity as the people who co-create this network and maintain it ...
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Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE
Stack Exchange releases "data dumps" of all its publicly available content roughly every three months via archive.org, and also makes that information queryable over the Internet at the ...
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A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC BY-SA license. For my fellow ...
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Stack Overflow at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin
Update, July 27, 2023: I posted a summary of Prashanth's keynote as an answer below.
We wanted to let everyone know that Stack Overflow will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin, Germany on ...
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Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?
Users with less than 50 reputation points cannot write comments on questions and answers that they don't own.
Why does this limit exist?
But I want to contribute now. What should I do instead?
But I ...
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What does the public really need from us?
In my last question, I asked what’s on your mind. I wanted to talk about your thoughts, worries, anxieties, and hopes for the future of the network. I’ve read every word written there several times (...
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Shifting the data dump schedule: A proposal
My colleague Rosie recently announced that, because of our difficulties predictably getting data dump files to the Internet Archive[1],[2], we are setting more realistic expectations for completing ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (July 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
TL;DR - top areas of focus include:
Community Asks quarterly event
Iterating and scaling Staging ...
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May 2023 layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff
A few minutes ago, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar posted a note to our blog to share the news that Stack Overflow has made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 58 people, or about 10% of our ...
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All Stack Exchange data dump releases
I know how to download the latest release of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dump, but I'm interested in downloading a past release and don't see those listed. Where can I find them?
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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the network
Update December 10th, 2024
Our rate-limit on high-volume scripted requests to the network (described in bullet point 4 below) is now live. We expect that this will be the final update on this post. In ...
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A new (2018) update to our Terms of Service is here
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 ...
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