Stack Overflow Blog

December 5, 2019

New post notices: Improving feedback on Stack Overflow questions

We know that giving our community mechanisms for sharing and receiving feedback is important. In her recent blog post, Meg Risdal described some of the ways that our Public Q&A product team is working to improve the way our system helps users share and receive feedback. I’m pleased to announce that starting today we are…

Yaakov Ellis Principal Web Developer, Community

company December 4, 2019

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

code-for-a-living December 2, 2019

Preventing the Top Security Weaknesses Found in Stack Overflow Code Snippets

Last week, we told you about research that found a number of security vulnerabilities in code snippets in Stack Overflow answers, and how some of those flaws had migrated into actual, real-live Github projects. Today, we’re following up on the top eight error types that research highlighted and suggesting ways to avoid making the same mistakes.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living November 26, 2019

Copying code from Stack Overflow? You might paste security vulnerabilities, too

Copying code itself isn’t always a bad thing. Code reuse can promote efficiency in software development; why solve a problem that has already been solved well? But when the developers use example code without trying to understand the implications of it, that’s when problems can arise.

Ryan Donovan

uncategorized November 25, 2019

Introducing “The Loop”: A Foundation in Listening

We want to share with you, the community, some of the reasons why we make decisions and what inputs we listen to, as well as give you a place to weigh in.

Sara Chipps and Juan M

code-for-a-living November 18, 2019

The Interactive News Platform for Everyone

Journalists have an uneasy relationship with technology. On one hand, journalism at the highest levels still focuses on print distribution, a technology hundreds of years old. On the other hand, even the Gray Lady has a snazzy mobile app and stories custom made for virtual reality. Traditional news outlets are increasingly discovering the power of…

Ryan Donovan

November 14, 2019

Why is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?

For some companies who have already made the change years ago, it won’t be an issue. However, there’s a whole range of companies who won’t be making the change anytime soon, for a number of reasons. What does this change mean for companies heavily utilizing the language, particularly those who may not be ready to migrate?

Vicki Boykis

November 13, 2019

We’re Rewarding the Question Askers

We’re recalculating reputation for every Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange individual based on this change. Every question upvote earned in the past will earn a value of ten reputation points retroactively.

Sara Chipps Director of Public Q&A

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)