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
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.
You like our dark mode? Well, wait until you try our Ultra Dark Mode
Embrace the darkness.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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
Introducing Dark Mode (beta) for Stack Overflow
Our most requested feature is finally coming to life. You can try out Dark Mode in beta across Stack Overflow and help us make it great.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Stack Gives Back 2019
Each year, Stack Exchange donates $100 on behalf of each of our volunteer moderators. This is a long-held tradition that began in 2009, and we’re excited to continue it today. We’re pleased to announce that the donations have been made and the funds are at work helping these really awesome causes.
Tim Post
Community Evangelist - Former
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…
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
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
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.
