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Meanwhile Stack Overflow employees keep busy with everything from ",{"_key":601,"_type":69,"marks":602,"text":604},"1781c30bad7123",[603],"6b8de59b6c8e","semi-regular podcasts",{"_key":606,"_type":69,"marks":607,"text":608},"1781c30bad7124",[]," to ",{"_key":610,"_type":69,"marks":611,"text":613},"1781c30bad7125",[612],"d27ad2717caa","reaching out",{"_key":615,"_type":69,"marks":616,"text":617},"1781c30bad7126",[]," to companies who are hiring programmers. Our data team spent much of 2017 ",{"_key":619,"_type":69,"marks":620,"text":622},"1781c30bad7127",[621],"14c9c9dc1267","digging up insights",{"_key":624,"_type":69,"marks":625,"text":626},"1781c30bad7128",[]," from our unique data about developers. They also introduced ",{"_key":628,"_type":69,"marks":629,"text":631},"1781c30bad7129",[630],"d300b060e82e","Stack Overflow Trends",{"_key":633,"_type":69,"marks":634,"text":635},"1781c30bad7130",[]," to facilitate your own research and released an ",{"_key":637,"_type":69,"marks":638,"text":640},"1781c30bad7131",[639],"41d7426703ea","improved salary calculator for programmers",{"_key":642,"_type":69,"marks":643,"text":644},"1781c30bad7132",[],". After years of planning, the SRE team ",{"_key":646,"_type":69,"marks":647,"text":649},"1781c30bad7133",[648],"82f229ed6240","moved to HTTPS everywhere",{"_key":651,"_type":69,"marks":652,"text":653},"1781c30bad7134",[],". In addition to the Stack Exchange app, we now have a ",{"_key":655,"_type":69,"marks":656,"text":658},"1781c30bad7135",[657],"30a14b322ba1","Stack Overflow mobile app",{"_key":660,"_type":69,"marks":661,"text":662},"1781c30bad7136",[]," for Apple and Android phones. Finally, Jess Pardue explained ",{"_key":664,"_type":69,"marks":665,"text":667},"1781c30bad7137",[666],"924eec5cb728","how remote work really works",{"_key":669,"_type":69,"marks":670,"text":671},"1781c30bad7138",[],". I’m not going to spin it; 2017 was not a terrific year for Stack Exchange Inc. Remember the Documentation feature ",{"_key":673,"_type":69,"marks":674,"text":676},"1781c30bad7139",[675],"513dfd697fc1","I was so excited about last year",{"_key":678,"_type":69,"marks":679,"text":680},"1781c30bad7140",[],"? We ",{"_key":682,"_type":69,"marks":683,"text":685},"1781c30bad7141",[684],"57cdf461b3da","shut it down",{"_key":687,"_type":69,"marks":688,"text":689},"1781c30bad7142",[]," in August. It’s still a good idea and there’s a huge opportunity, but our real strength is user-curated questions and answers. Unfortunately, we also ",{"_key":691,"_type":69,"marks":692,"text":694},"1781c30bad7143",[693],"25af706bac48","lost a number of outstanding colleagues",{"_key":696,"_type":69,"marks":697,"text":698},"1781c30bad7144",[],". (It was strictly a business decision and we miss them tremendously.) 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At Stack Overflow, we strive to be a reverse iceberg by sharing as much as possible about what’s going on. 2017 presents a bit of a problem since the big news is that we’ve seen a lot of interest in companies \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.stackoverflowbusiness.com\u002Fenterprise\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paying for private Q&A\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The other two legs of our \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2016\u002F11\u002F15\u002Fhow-we-make-money-at-stack-overflow-2016-edition\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">revenue tripod\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ads and job placement) are stable. But it turns out Stack Overflow is best known for providing a platform for people to share knowledge with each other. So our most exciting developments didn’t get much visibility last year. \u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We offer both self-hosted and remote-hosted Enterprise instances. Both varieties are full-fledged sites that take a fair amount of investment from the customer to be successful. Smaller organizations have asked for private Q&A as well, which brings us to \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F07\u002F11\u002Fintroducing-channels-private-qa-team\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Channels\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. By hosting private Q&A for smaller teams right on Stack Overflow, we hope to \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F11\u002F09\u002Fwhy-channels\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">simplify signup and security\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for them. From our experience using our own Enterprise instance, I’m excited to move to Channels in order to skip the VPN and to have notifications go right to my Stack Exchange global inbox. Many of \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F12\u002F04\u002Fdesigning-channels\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the design changes needed for Channels\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cb>benefit the public sites as well\u003C\u002Fb>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\">[table id=1 \u002F]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\nThe observant among you might notice these statistics are slightly down from 2016. One of the great things about an open Q&A network is that answers to the askers’ specific questions can be discovered by other people with the same question. So a big reason we don’t have more \u003Ci>new\u003C\u002Fi> questions is because we have so many \u003Ci>existing\u003C\u002Fi> answered questions for people to find before they ask. Most of the millions of questions asked each year are only ever seen by the handful of people who have the very rare problem asked about. (In other words, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2011\u002F01\u002F05\u002Fthe-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions\u002F\">the network has a very long tail\u003C\u002Fa>.) That said, some questions are seen by hundreds of thousands of people. Here are the top 5 viewed questions across the network asked in 2017:\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\">[table id=2 \u002F]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n(Full disclosure: I’ve tried to automate my job, but I haven’t achieved full covfefe.)\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questions are only useful if they prompt helpful answers and Stack Exchange users regularly provide just that. While most of the accumulated value of the network’s content (available under \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F3.0\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a Creative Commons licence\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is spread out over millions of clear answers to obscure questions, there are a few answers that just about anyone can appreciate. Here are the top 5 answers from 2017 ordered by score:\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\">[table id=3 \u002F]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only question to appear in both lists started as a pun based on \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=3wCK6INQcHs\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an ABBA song\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is one reason to be thankful for 2017.\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the downsides of having a bunch of popular websites built entirely from community-created content is that we attract a lot of spam. Over the years, we’ve added systems to block and slow down unwanted submissions, but some still get through. The last line of defense is flags from individual users. A few years ago, a dedicated team of users (\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fcharcoal-se.org\u002Fpeople.html\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charcoal\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) built a rather remarkable early warning system called the \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FCharcoal-SE\u002FSmokeDetector\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SmokeDetector\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Initially, it was just a chatbot that dropped messages about potential spam for users to flag. Over time, the system’s accuracy increased to be \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">even better than human flaggers\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fi>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So recently, the system started \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F291301\u002Fcan-a-machine-be-taught-to-flag-spam-automatically\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">automatically flagging spam\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The program has substantially reduced the number of times an actual human needs to look at spam and other nonsense. For more details, please see the \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F305338\u002F2017-a-year-in-spam\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017 spam report\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And just so it’s clear, this was entirely a community-led development. We love giving our users agency to fix problems.\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even when we are doing the development work, we do best when we communicate early and often with users. (This was the most important thing we learned from Documentation.) For instance, the team working on improvements to the network publishes a \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F301449\u002F2017-teamdag-project-updates\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">monthly update\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and takes \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackoverflow.com\u002Fquestions\u002F354125\u002Fhelp-set-qa-teamdag-product-development-priorities\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">community feedback\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as one important input to its priority list. I mentioned last year that we \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">didn’t\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fi>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> listen to potential customers who wanted to pay for an \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.stackoverflowbusiness.com\u002Fenterprise\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise Q&A site\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A variety of organizations have successfully deployed these sites, which in retrospect shouldn’t be a surprise. It hurts to consider the opportunities we missed simply by not listening.\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Annual events help turn a random collection of humans into a cohesive culture. As a sampling:\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cul>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftex.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F7212\u002Ftug-representatives-for-2017\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">elected representatives to the TeX Users Group\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graduated sites customized advertisements for the year to come. (Mathematics has some \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmath.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F25812\u002Fcommunity-promotion-ads-2017\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interesting submissions\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.) \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F02\u002F14\u002Fwhy-stack-overflow-redesigned-the-top-navigation\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">redesigned the top bar\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (Ok, that only \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seems\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fi>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> annual.)\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judaism hosted \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fjudaism.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002Ftagged\u002Fpurim-torah-in-jest\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Purim Torah\" questions\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F03\u002F22\u002Fnow-live-stack-overflow-developer-survey-2017-results\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stack Overflow Developer Survey\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> results were revealed. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F03\u002F30\u002Fstack-overflow-unveils-next-steps-computer-security\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">danced like fools\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for April Fool’s Day.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users hunted down their favorite digital skull decorations in \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2018\u002F01\u002F10\u002Ffarewell-winter-bash-2017\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winter Bash 2017\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n    \u003Cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over $56,600 was \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F12\u002F27\u002Fstack-overflow-gives-back-2017\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">donated in the name of our moderators\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. ($100 per moderator, if you are curious.)\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m not the only one posting about the year that was. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fchristianity.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F6461\u002Fyear-in-review-2017\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christianity has a statistics-heavy post\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that follows the format of this post—it’s like a fractal! There’s an introspective question on \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fworkplace.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F5000\u002F2017-year-in-review\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Workplace in 2017\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.  If you want more adventure in your life, you might look at some of the community’s \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fscifi.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F11426\u002Ffavorite-questions-and-answers-from-third-quarter-of-2017\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy questions\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the past year. (I’m still waiting for the fourth quarter post!) Classicists in the house might appreciate the \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Flatin.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F322\u002Frewarding-the-best-answers-of-the-second-half-of-2017?noredirect=1&lq=1\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best Latin(!) answers\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the second half of 2017. If your language preferences tend toward the programming variety, take a look at \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcodereview.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002Ftagged\u002Fcommunity-challenge\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the submissions\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Code Review’s 2017 community challenge: \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcodereview.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F8442\u002Fcode-review-2017-challenge-entries\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">design your own programming language\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The highlight for \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbricks.meta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F416\u002Fbricks-se-year-in-review-2017\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017 on Bricks\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: it became a \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Flan.lego.com\u002Fclubs\u002F59-bricks-stack-exchange\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recognized LEGO User Group\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.  My colleague, Shog9,  looked at \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F306197\u002F2017-a-year-in-closing\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">question closing statistics in 2017\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Thanks to the the efforts of \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">la gente hispana\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fi>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F05\u002F20\u002Fstack-overflow-en-espanol-graduated\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stack Overflow en Español became a fully graduated site\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile Stack Overflow employees keep busy with everything from \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002Fpodcasts\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">semi-regular podcasts\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.stackoverflowbusiness.com\u002Ftalent\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reaching out\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to companies who are hiring programmers. Our data team spent much of 2017 \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002Finsights\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digging up insights\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from our unique data about developers. They also introduced \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F05\u002F09\u002Fintroducing-stack-overflow-trends\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stack Overflow Trends\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to facilitate your own research and released an \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F09\u002F19\u002Fmuch-developers-earn-find-stack-overflow-salary-calculator\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">improved salary calculator for programmers\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After years of planning, the SRE team \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F05\u002F22\u002Fstack-overflow-flipped-switch-https\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moved to HTTPS everywhere\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In addition to the Stack Exchange app, we now have a \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F05\u002F16\u002Fstack-overflow-official-app-launches-ios-android\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stack Overflow mobile app\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Apple and Android phones. Finally,  Jess Pardue explained \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F09\u002F29\u002Fmaking-remote-work-behind-scenes\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how remote work really works\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u003C\u002Fspan>\n\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m not going to spin it; 2017 was not a terrific year for Stack Exchange Inc. Remember the Documentation feature \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2017\u002F01\u002F26\u002Fyear-in-review-2016\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was so excited about last year\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? We \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackoverflow.com\u002Fquestions\u002F354217\u002Fsunsetting-documentation\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shut it down\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in August. It’s still a good idea and there’s a huge opportunity, but our real strength is user-curated questions and answers. Unfortunately, we also \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackexchange.com\u002Fquestions\u002F303005\u002Fwhat-happened-with-the-stack-overflow-layoffs\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lost a number of outstanding colleagues\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (It was strictly a business decision and we miss them tremendously.) So it’s more important than ever to focus on what we do best: enable our talented communities to answer the internet’s questions.\u003C\u002Fspan>","html","2018-01-31T17:00:37.000Z",{"current":753},"stack-exchange-2017-review",[755,763,768,773],{"_createdAt":756,"_id":757,"_rev":758,"_type":759,"_updatedAt":756,"slug":760,"title":762},"2023-05-23T16:43:21Z","wp-tagcat-community","9HpbCsT2tq0xwozQfkc4ih","blogTag",{"current":761},"community","Community",{"_createdAt":756,"_id":764,"_rev":758,"_type":759,"_updatedAt":756,"slug":765,"title":767},"wp-tagcat-company",{"current":766},"company","Company",{"_createdAt":756,"_id":769,"_rev":758,"_type":759,"_updatedAt":756,"slug":770,"title":772},"wp-tagcat-stackexchange",{"current":771},"stackexchange","Stackexchange",{"_createdAt":756,"_id":774,"_rev":758,"_type":759,"_updatedAt":756,"slug":775,"title":777},"wp-tagcat-stackoverflow",{"current":776},"stackoverflow","Stackoverflow","Stack Exchange 2017 in Review",[780,786,792,798],{"_id":781,"publishedAt":782,"slug":783,"sponsored":12,"title":785},"76c9771b-34e6-4d98-8641-ecefc711f0ef","2026-07-06T15:23:34.559Z",{"_type":10,"current":784},"when-the-sensor-starts-thinking-snortml-agentic-ai-and-the-evolving-architecture-of-intrusion-detection","When the sensor starts thinking: SnortML, agentic AI, and the evolving architecture of intrusion detection",{"_id":787,"publishedAt":788,"slug":789,"sponsored":12,"title":791},"28e560af-f0aa-4d46-bd90-f435ad604aa7","2026-06-26T14:00:27.102Z",{"_type":10,"current":790},"paging-charity-how-can-engineering-leaders-avoid-becoming-bond-villains","Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?",{"_id":793,"publishedAt":794,"slug":795,"sponsored":12,"title":797},"4b22c2a3-3779-4966-93eb-5230391dbdce","2026-06-23T14:08:58.595Z",{"_type":10,"current":796},"your-ai-shipped-a-backend-that-boots-that-is-the-whole-problem","Your AI shipped a backend that boots. That is the whole problem.",{"_id":799,"publishedAt":800,"slug":801,"sponsored":12,"title":803},"5cf362e1-fe7b-45af-b69c-914731c6a052","2026-06-23T14:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":802},"the-2026-developer-survey-is-now-open-for-human-developers-only","The 2026 Developer Survey is now open (for human developers only)!",{"data":805,"sourceMap":-1},{"count":806,"lastTimestamp":807},2,"2023-05-25T09:46:33Z"]