Jay Hanlon

stack overflow anniversary
company September 27, 2018

Stack Overflow is 10!

Ten years ago, a lot was happening. Barack Obama and John McCain were running for U.S. president. Lehman Brothers’ collapse triggered a global financial crisis. The second iPhone came out – with 3G speeds, y’all! Tweens everywhere were deciding if they were on Team Jacob or Team Edward. Kanye West convinced everyone that what sunglasses…
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community April 26, 2018

Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change.

We <3 and believe in Stack Overflow. But sometimes, loving something means caring enough to admit that it has a problem. Let’s start with the painful truth: Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups. Our employees and community…
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company September 15, 2015

We’re Changing Our Name (Back) to Stack Overflow

We are Stack Overflow You may know us from such popular websites as Stack Overflow Q&A, Stack Overflow Careers, The Stack Exchange Q&A Network, and most of your Google search results. tl;dr – We’re changing our company name. Here’s what’s changing: As of today, our company will be known as Stack Overflow. Our logo is…
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company April 15, 2015

Two new user pages. One new stat. This one’s big.

In the time since we started working on the profile, generations of dinosaurs were born, fell in love, had families, and were killed by a comet. Or climate change, or maybe texting and driving or some nonsense like that. Anyway, as of today, it’s live on SO and about half the network, and we’ll be…
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community February 13, 2014

Can’t We All be Reasonable and Speak English?

Two weeks ago, we announced the public launch of Stack Overflow in Portuguese, our first-ever non-English Stack Overflow community. Which raises one very obvious question: Have we lost our minds? Wasn’t the whole point of Stack Overflow to aggregate as much developer knowledge as possible in one place? To get all the potential solutions together,…
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community January 29, 2014

Olá, Mundo! Announcing Stack Overflow in Portuguese.

If you can’t read the rest of this post, it’s because I’m not talking to you. Which is a little weird, since I can’t even read this without help from our Brazilian Community Manager, Gabe, who’s been kind enough to help me write this in Portuguese. Depois de semanas em beta privado, nós temos o…
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community September 16, 2013

Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched. Then, a miracle occurred.

Stack Overflow officially launched on September 15, 2008. In five short years, you’ve answered over 5 million questions on more than 100 sites, and helped hundreds of millions of people find the answers they needed. Today, we want to celebrate how, together, we changed one small corner of the Internet for the better. We want…
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community June 25, 2013

The War of the Closes

It pains me when I hear people say that our sites are unfriendly, or that we chase new users away. But it’s a hard problem, because our highest priority has always been the quality of content on our sites.  And it still is. We can’t lower our standards. We won’t. But we have been working hard…
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community January 29, 2013

About Page 2.0: The QuickStartening

We’ve just rolled out a new Quick Start guide to help new users learn the basics. Here’s one example, but you can find any site’s version by going to sitename.com/about. Imagine you’re visiting a new friend’s home and… “Please, make yourself at home. Oh, actually, could you not sit on that? Yes, it _looks_ like…
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