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community August 20, 2020

The Loop, August 2020: Community-a-thon

Here at Stack Overflow, we recently held our first Community-a-thon event. We wanted our employees to learn more about the SE network and how it feels to use it so they can get a better sense of what it's like to be a user here.

Yaakov Ellis and Stephanie Cantor

community July 15, 2020

How the medical sciences exchange helped me with med school

As a 2nd year medical student, I was beginning an intense period of independent study for our first licensing exam (Step 1) when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in April. Studying for this test meant that I had less structured time for volunteering, so I wanted to find a way to contribute to the pandemic effort…

Dylan Tan

community June 17, 2020

Saying thanks: testing a new Reactions feature

We’ve heard from our users that the inability to say “thank you” is frustrating—especially for new users who don’t have enough reputation to upvote or comment. Even when users gain these privileges, they still want to say “thanks.”

Lisa Park Product Designer

Several cupped hands holding sprouts in dirt

community June 17, 2020

The Loop, June 2020: Defining the Stack Community

If you have been active on the Stack Exchange network (especially the Meta sites) or have been a reader of this blog for any significant amount of time, you will see the term Community used quite often. But who is a member of the Community? Why is the Community important? The answer to this will probably depend on who you ask.

Yaakov Ellis Principal Web Developer & Community Advocate

community May 27, 2020

The 2020 Developer Survey results are here!

We're excited to share the results of our 10th annual developer survey! 65,000 developers shared their thoughts on the state of software today.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 11, 2020

Dev Around the Sun: Community and caring in lonely times

#DevAroundTheSun is a group of technologists, from all backgrounds, with one singular goal: To raise awareness and funds for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 related illness through interactive collaboration and learning within the technology community. The conference will be for 24 hours starting at 12:00pm UTC on May 12th.

Sara Chipps Director of Product, Community

community April 24, 2020

Podcast 229: Jokes On Us

Tune in for part two of our conversation with Adam Lear and Jon Chan, Stack Overflow developers working on our public sites and community tools.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community April 20, 2020

How the pandemic changed traffic trends from 400M visitors across 172 Stack Exchange sites

The world has changed a lot in the last three months. As we adjust to this new reality, we are seeing interesting new traffic trends and community efforts across our network of sites.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community April 9, 2020

The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments

Unfriendly comments are an issue in our system because of the effect that their tone has on their recipient’s and future readers’ willingness to contribute to Stack Overflow. The solution to these issues isn’t to argue about circumstance or intent. The only remaining option is to work on the comments themselves.

Jason Punyon and Kevin Montrose

community April 1, 2020

You like our dark mode? Well, wait until you try our Ultra Dark Mode

Embrace the darkness.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community March 31, 2020

Podcast 222: Learning From our Moderators

This podcast is meant to reach the Stack community, so we thought it would be great to have some of the moderators who help keep our communities running come on the show and chat about what they do and what they are seeing.

Ben Popper Director of Content