Questions tagged [announcements]
For questions about Stack Exchange announcements, or announcements from the Stack Exchange team that detail recent changes across the network.
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We’re hiring for the Community Management Department
In the AMA that Prashanth Chandrasekar (CEO) held earlier this year, he and Philippe Beaudette (SVP, Communities) shared that we would be hiring for the Community Management Department and that we’d ...
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2025 We Are Developers Event Summary
Earlier today, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow and Jody Bailey Chief Product and Technology Officer, spoke at this year’s We Are Developers conference in Berlin. A key point in their ...
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Results of the June 2025 Community Asks Sprint
The June Community Asks Sprint has concluded!
As noted in the announcement post, this Community Asks Sprint focused on addressing issues with community tooling and flagging. With this focus in mind, ...
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One Ask Page to Rule Them All
Update on July 8, 2025:
The list of sites excluded from the initial rollout has been updated below.
The company is working to simplify, improve, and consolidate the question asking experience across ...
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Chat Landing Page Redesign - Phase 1
[UPDATE - this is now live]
[UPDATE 2 - thanks for the bugs called out below. I'll start creating tickets for them in the morning (July 3, 2025).]
On Wednesday, July 2nd, we’re rolling out a new ...
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New identicons for all Area 51 users
A few years ago we switched to randomly generated Identicons for new profile images when users sign up on the network. Today we have extended this practice to Area 51 to complete that process.
All ...
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Community Asks Sprint Announcement - June 2025
Update - July 8th, 2025
The results of the June 2025 Community Asks Sprint have been posted!
Update - July 2nd, 2025
The June Community Asks Sprint has concluded! We are in the process of cleaning up ...
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Stack Exchange API: Stack Apps updates and upcoming version 3 beta
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Updates to Stack Apps’ app registration and management process that affect all API users, released on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
Nothing changes about API applications’ configuration or ...
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Site maintenance scheduled starting Monday, June 2, 2025 from 13:30 - 14:30 UTC (9:30am - 10:30am ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance completed]
We have planned maintenance as part of our migration to GCP. Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites may go into read-only mode, in which portions of the site may be ...
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Tooling for moderation updates
I’m excited to announce that we’ve recently formed an internal team whose time & work will be dedicated to building and improving tooling for moderation. We’ve intentionally not named this team “...
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Stack Exchange Data Explorer migration to .NET 8
In case you folks missed it, we’re moving Stack Exchange to the cloud! And during that project, we saw an opportunity to leverage SEDE to try some cool containerization work in Linux there and avoid ...
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Two New Chat Rooms Experiment Geared Towards New Users
UPDATE: The new rooms are live (again)! Stack Overflow Lobby and Stack Exchange Lobby
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The vast majority of users on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network do not currently have the ...
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Inviting more thoughts: Do these challenges resonate beyond Stack Overflow? (Closed but potentially useful posts)
A few weeks ago, I started a conversation on MSO focused on a topic: A discussion about closed (and potentially useful) posts on Stack Overflow
Specifically, we were talking about “grey area” ...
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Concluding the Answer Assistant experiment
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, we ended the Answer Assistant experiment on the Stack Exchange sites where it was running - Raspberry Pi, Arts & Crafts, and User Experience.
We greatly appreciate the ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network - April 2025
Today, I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog. Community Products development teams are focused on delivering against outcomes, which are ...
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