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We can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store for 2015.",[],true,"2015\u002F01\u002F08","",{"_type":53,"asset":637},{"_ref":638,"_type":56},"image-58a33a4ee4003c8ef60e1db05928a2c201b50d2a-800x533-jpg",{"code":640,"language":641},"\u003Cp>We – which is to say, you, the Stack Exchange community – had another great year in 2014.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We cracked \u003Cstrong>Quantcast’s top 50 networks in the US\u003C\u002Fstrong>. We did this without posting celebrity gossip, top 10 lists, or cat pictures. We did it by creating \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=LpGA2fmAHvM\">artifacts\u003C\u002Fa>: useful, canonical bits of information, edited, refined, and curated by our community.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By donating your knowledge to the largest community of developers in the world, you’ve been able to create a slice of the Internet that is indeed a better place. Amidst the noise, clutter, and chaos of the web, you’ve built one of the largest, most trusted knowledge repositories ever created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many times did people looking for help find your solutions last year? If you were to take the number of visitors to Stack Exchange sites in 2014, it would be larger than the populations of the United States, Russia and Brazil combined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Accommodating this many visitors would not be possible without our \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackexchange.com\u002Fperformance\">remarkably lean\u003C\u002Fa> infrastructure, which served \u003Cstrong>6.4 billion pageviews \u003C\u002Fstrong>last year alone.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>By the Numbers\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Let’s focus on how much you did in 2014 to share your knowledge:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>3.1 million new questions asked\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>4.5 million answers submitted\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>2.7 million edits, which made those posts even more helpful\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>17 million comments\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>3.6 million reviews\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>21 million upvotes; 3.2 million downvotes; 1.8 million accepted answers\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Ch2>Community Highlights\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>In 2014, we launched 20 new beta sites that you proposed through \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Farea51.stackexchange.com\u002Ffaq\">Area 51\u003C\u002Fa>, bringing us to a total of \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackexchange.com\u002Fsites\">133 communities\u003C\u002Fa> spanning topics as diverse as Economics, Startups, and Buddhism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>5 communities graduated from beta and were fully launched with snazzy new designs: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmoney.stackexchange.com\u002F\">Personal Finance and Money\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgraphicdesign.stackexchange.com\u002F\">Graphic Design\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Facademia.stackexchange.com\u002F\">Academia\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fworkplace.stackexchange.com\u002F\">The Workplace\u003C\u002Fa>, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fsalesforce.stackexchange.com\u002F\">Salesforce\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>We released native mobile apps for \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fitunes.apple.com\u002Fus\u002Fapp\u002Fstack-exchange\u002Fid871299723?mt=8\">iPhone\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fplay.google.com\u002Fstore\u002Fapps\u002Fdetails?id=com.stackexchange.marvin&hl=en\">Android\u003C\u002Fa>, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fitunes.apple.com\u002Fus\u002Fapp\u002Fstack-exchange\u002Fid871299723?mt=8\">iPad\u003C\u002Fa>, (with an Android Tablet version in the works). 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We donated over $60,000 to some of our \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002F2014\u002F12\u002Fstack-exchange-gives-back-2014\u002F\">favorite\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mathjax.org\u002Fstack-exchange-continues-as-mathjax-partner-3\u002F\">projects\u003C\u002Fa> on behalf of our invaluable moderators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>We grew to 205 employees here at Stack Exchange (the company), more than 20% of whom \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.stackoverflow.com\u002F2013\u002F02\u002Fwhy-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely\u002F\">work remotely\u003C\u002Fa>. We now have people in 11 countries with physical offices in New York, London, and Denver. 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