Community working group updates: February 2020
In this post, we'd like to talk about some of the initiatives that are happening internally at Stack Overflow aimed at addressing and repairing our relationship with our community.
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Scripting the Future of Stack Overflow
A note from our new CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, reflecting on his first 90 days and laying out his vision for 2020.
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
‘Tis the Season for Hats! Join Us for Winter Bash 2019
Around the globe, we look forward to celebrating traditions that are unique to us, our families, and our communities. The season gives us a chance to reflect, makes us smile, and helps bring us all together. This year is a special one for the Winter Bash tradition. A hectic end of the year (that included…
Cesar Manara
Community Manager
Introducing Subject Matter Experts
The new feature, available on the Business tier of Stack Overflow for Teams and coming to the Enterprise tier in 2020, allows your Team to associate a subject matter expert (SME) with a tag. Multiple Team members can be designated as SMEs for any given tag by your Team Admin.
Lori Colston
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
An Interview with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar
Stack Overflow's new CEO talks about his introduction to computer science, his vision for the company, and how his kids are learning to code.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Stack Overflow Podcast is Back!
This week we talk compilers, Logo turtles, and building websites for family members. Plus a chat with Stack Overflow's new CEO.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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 Product, Community
Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow
As of September 23rd, 2019, we’re applying static analysis to some of the code behind public Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow for Teams, and Stack Overflow Enterprise in order to pre-emptively find and eliminate certain kinds of vulnerabilities. How we accomplished this is an interesting story and also illustrative of advancements in .NET’s open source community.…
Kevin Montrose
Team Lead, Data
Our Advertising Principles
Visit Stack Overflow or any Stack Exchange site and you may notice advertising on the site. Companies partner with us to advertise their products, services, specific jobs, and the benefits of working for them. We want these ads to be as relevant to you as possible and to make you more effective at work and…
Sean Bave
GM of Stack Overflow Talent and Advertising
Introducing Custom Filters
Custom Filters are available to public Stack Overflow users today! The new feature allows a new way of navigating and discovering questions that are relevant to you on Stack Overflow. This rollout is part of our continuing efforts to make the core Q&A experience on Stack Overflow better, and we’re looking forward to improving this feature and many more with your help.
Jon Chan
Engineering Manager, Public Platform