community August 23, 2009

New Question Asker Features

In order to increase engagement between the people asking questions and the rest of the community, we’ve rolled out two new features. The first is a “batting average”, if you will. Below the question owner signature block, for non-community-wiki questions, we show the percent of accepted answers for that user. It won’t always appear, though.…
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background August 22, 2009

Us Versus Hyphen

It’s Friday, so that must mean it’s graph day! Here are some graphs I picked completely at random that I’d like to show you. Google Alexa Compete Quantcast No hyphens were harmed in the creation of this blog post. (disclaimer: we have a healthy respect for other websites similar to ours, and we believe the…
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background August 21, 2009

Browsers and Screen Size on Stack Overflow

The question occasionally comes up: what web browsers do Stack Overflow users tend to use? Here’s a quick look at our Analytics data from June 1st – August 19th. Firefox 50.53% Internet Explorer 29.12% Chrome 9.04% Safari 7.33% Opera 2.44% Mozilla 1.15% Konqueror 0.10% Note that within Internet Explorer, the breakdown is 45% IE7, 29%…
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company August 18, 2009

Super User Now Public

After a month long semi-private beta, Super User is now open to the public! It’s exciting to complete the trilogy (and even have our own Christmas Special). Now brace yourselves for a massive influx of ewoks. They’re too cute to be angry with! Remember, Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you…
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community August 17, 2009

Congratulations Super User Moderators!

After a brief informal nomination period by the existing moderators, and a small impromptu vote on meta, we’ve settled on our three Super User community moderators: Congratulations to TheTXI, splattne, and Diago! They are all that is standing between us and an endless armada of Ewoks, so wish them luck, and try to support them…
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background August 12, 2009

Stack Overflow and Doctype

Remember our League of (web) Justice? Well, I’m pleased to announce we have recruited another superhero into our league: Doctype. What is Doctype? Doctype is a free question and answer site for web designers. You can get fast solutions to your CSS, HTML, web design and email design problems. For each question, Doctype can generate…
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background August 10, 2009

Coming Soon: Trilogy Stickers

As mentioned on the podcast, we’re working on Stack Overflow Trilogy stickers. I just placed the order with websticker, in fact, and here are the proofs: And because we fully support members of our League of (web) Justice, I ordered some for our fellow league member, How-To Geek, as well. (all stickers are 4 1/2″…
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background August 9, 2009

A Few Speed Improvements

Over the weekend, we rolled out a few speed improvements to the Stack Overflow engine. First, we did a quick pass with ANTS Profiler (which is great, by the way) and identified a few places where redundant or unnecessary database queries slipped into our code. We like to do this every few months on common…
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background August 1, 2009

One Year of Stack Overflow

It was one year ago today that the Stack Overflow private beta started. The first question was asked at 21:42 on July 31st, 2008. Which means we’ve been doing this thing in public for a full year now — it’s a Stack Overflow birthday! Some stats for our first year: Three new “family” sites have…
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community July 31, 2009

Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day!

Today, July 31, 2009, is the 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! There’s a rather nice definition of the term sysadmin on the page, so if you’ve ever wondered who the target audience is for Server Fault — have a read: A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating…
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community July 30, 2009

How-To Geek and Stack Overflow

Remember the League of Justice I said we were forming? Well, I’m thrilled to announce that our League has added its first new superhero: the How-To Geek. I’ve been a fan of The Geek’s site since the very first time I discovered it in late 2007. It’s a fantastic resource filled with great content, and…
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