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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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the network
Stack Exchange is implementing four new restrictions to prevent unauthorized automated access to the network. These restrictions should not affect day-to-day network usage; however, they are still ...
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(Completed) Site maintenance - Mon, Sept 16 2024, 21:00 UTC to Tue, Sept 17 2024, 2:00 UTC (Mon, Sept 16 2024, 5pm-10pm ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance has been completed]
We have planned network maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange users. The window is scheduled for Monday, September 16 2024, 21:00 UTC ...
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
We mentioned in our roadmap update that user activation was an area that we are prioritizing. In this post, we will go through the background, challenges, and opportunities that we will be focusing on....
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (space is very limited)
One of the great staples - and most fun parts - of online communities is, ironically, the chance to meet offline. It’s something that I’ve enjoyed greatly throughout my career. Since joining Stack ...
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Let’s Encrypt chain of trust changes will affect a small number of users on Stack Exchange
tl;dr: As early as September 9th, some users accessing the site from old Android devices (running Android 7.0 and earlier) may see SSL warnings in their browser regarding an invalid certificate when ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Update – September 10, 2024: Thank you everyone for submitting your issues and requests; we appreciate you taking the time to raise them. Keep them coming. We will take these into consideration ...
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Data Dumps - updates and bug fixes
Thanks to everyone who posted bug reports and feature requests related to the updated data dumps process. Below, we’ve detailed some work on those reports and requests.
Issues reported on this post:
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Introducing an accessibility dashboard and some upcoming changes to display links
As you may have seen, we have been working on several accessibility initiatives (1, 2, 3) that touch various parts of the Stack Exchange network and the Teams business. As part of this initiative, we ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance - Tuesday, July 23rd 2024, 8 PM - Midnight ET (12 AM - 4 AM UTC, Wednesday July 24 2024)
[UPDATE] Network site maintenance has been completed.
We have planned network maintenance that may impact all Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites. The window is scheduled for Tuesday, July 23rd ...
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2024 WeAreDevelopers Event Summary
Update August 20, 2024
The video of Prashanth's presentation at We Are Developers is now available. I have linked it at the end of the question.
Earlier today, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack ...
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process
UPDATE August 29, 2024
This new post has updates related to various bug reports and feature requests.
UPDATE August 14, 2024
Over the past week we’ve scaled up the availability of the new page and ...
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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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We spent a sprint addressing your requests — here’s how it went
You may have noticed posts getting status-completed at an unusually high rate last week — there’s a reason for that, which I’ll get into further down. But first, some context for those who might need ...
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Upcoming sign-up experiments related to tags
Update August 29, 2024
We launched the recent tags experiment on Stack Overflow. A bug is currently causing it to show up network-wide. We are working to correct that, but if you find yourself ...
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Stack Overflow announcement profile [duplicate]
Feature request: a Stack Overflow announcement account!
So as you all know, Stack Overflow manages a lot of the administration of the Stack Exchange network, so this is not site specific.
I just want ...
