Communities and Connections will power our growth in 2021
Our CEO looks back on his first 12 months at Stack Overflow and shares his thoughts on what we're planning for the future.
Community
The Loop-September 2020: Summer Bridge to tech for kids
In response to COVID-19 and its impact on SYEP, over 50 nonprofits and technology companies came together to design the Summer Bridge 2020 plan to continue the program. As one of Summer Bridge’s partners, Stack Overflow designed a workplace challenge to give students a taste of what it’s like to work in the tech industry and to give us a chance to learn more about how students engaged with our developer community.
Jon Chan
Engineering Manager, Public Platform
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.
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…
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
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
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
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 - Former
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
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
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.
