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community February 25, 2020

Sharing our first quarter 2020 community roadmap

Editor’s note: You can discuss this post on Meta here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/344178/the-q1-2020-community-roadmap-is-on-the-blog/344209 As we work to improve our relationship and communications with our users, we want to share with you our community roadmap each quarter, so once every three months. Even though we are halfway through this quarter, we wanted to share with you what we…

Teresa Dietrich

community January 15, 2020

Winter persists, but Winter Bash 2019 has drawn to a close!

We had a ton of people participate in Winter Bash this year with 266,000 hats awarded throughout the network. Thank you, everyone! We couldn’t have done it without you.

Cesar Manara Community Manager

Wooden figures standing in a circle facing each other

community December 11, 2019

The Loop #1: How we conduct research on the Community team

If you work on a product that’s ever benefited from research – whether that’s talking directly to users, analyzing experiment data, or any number of other research methods – you know how indispensable these inputs are for making the right decisions. But how do you decide which methods to use and when? How do you know if you’re spending the right amount of time on research? How do you know when it’s time to change your research methods?

Donna Choi Community Design Lead

stackoverflowknows December 6, 2019

This Week #StackOverflowKnows About Infinity, Internet-Speak, and Password Storage

We’re introducing this bi-weekly roundup of questions from around the network with the tag #StackOverflowKnows. Share yours on twitter.

Ryan Donovan

community November 12, 2019

Research Update: A/B Testing the New Question Form

This month’s research update shows how the new question asking experience on Stack Overflow, now live for everyone, helps askers be more successful with quality questions.

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

code-for-a-living October 30, 2019

Why Sencha is moving its support forums to Stack Overflow

One way to scale support for a product is to invest in the community already asking and answering questions about your technology on Stack Overflow.

Ryan Donovan

community October 28, 2019

Research update: Coding on the Weekends

The majority of developers we surveyed say they code for fun. At the same time, burnout is a big issue in the industry. We crunch the numbers on how Stack Overflow gets used during weekends.

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

community October 10, 2019

Iterating on Inclusion

What’s Next Our original text says: Be kind and friendly. Avoid sarcasm and be careful with jokes — tone is hard to decipher online. If a situation makes it hard to be friendly, stop participating and move on. Our new tenet is: Be inclusive and respectful. Avoid sarcasm and be careful with jokes — tone…

Sara Chipps Director of Public Q&A

community October 3, 2019

The Overflow for October 4, 2019

You asked, we answered! Lots of folks asked for The Overflow newsletter to be part of an RSS feed, and here it is. We’ll be posting the full newsletter on the blog on the Friday after we send it out. Enjoy! Welcome to The Overflow, a newsletter from Stack Overflow that brings together great questions…

Cassidy Williams Instructor and developer at React Training

code-for-a-living October 1, 2019

Introducing The Overflow and Cassidy Williams

Today we’re launching The Overflow, a newsletter from Stack Overflow that brings together great questions from our community, news and articles from our blog, and awesome links from around the web. Our goal is to produce a collection of links about the world of software development that entertains, educates, and informs. It’s content by developers,…

Cassidy Williams Instructor and developer at React Training

community September 26, 2019

Research update: Improving the question-asking experience

Hi, my name is Lisa. 👋 I am a Product Designer on the Community Product team and I’m excited to provide this month’s UX research update! If you’ve asked a question recently, you may have noticed some changes to the question-asking form. This is the result of months of research reviewing the question-asking experience on…

Lisa Park Product Designer