community October 11, 2010

Ubuntu Stack Exchange is askubuntu.com

We’re pleased to announce that ubuntu.stackexchange.com, in partnership with Canonical, Ltd, has become Ask Ubuntu. We’re excited to see this come to fruition, because: Our mission is “let’s make the internet better”; that’s strikingly similar in scope to Canonical’s mission. It underscores the spirit of both Ubuntu and Stack Overflow in that we can all…
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Co-Founder (Former)
company October 9, 2010

Stack Overflow Outage

As you may have noticed many of Stack Overflow’s websites suffered some down time today from 6am EDT for about an hour and Stackoverflow.com is still offline for maintenance. Our collocation provider in Oregon experienced an unexpected UPS failure that caused us to lose power. Once they were able to restore power Geoff, who was already on…
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Director of Site Reliability (former)
community October 8, 2010

Search All Stack Exchange Sites

For as long as we’ve been working on Stack Overflow, we’ve been telling people that web search is our “homepage”. Just to prove it, I dug up our old Project Ask Elevator Pitch from FogBugz — and it’s right there at the top: The above document was last edited April 15th, 2008. Ah, memories… Don’t…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community October 7, 2010

Membership Has Its Privileges

Our very own Benjamin Dumke opened a meta topic about a year ago that was prescient: Right now, crossing one of the magical rep borders happens more or less unnoticed. People just gain the particular powers. Now, of course they have eagerly been awaiting this moment, and want to start using their new powers instantly.…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community October 5, 2010

Domain Names: The Wrong Question

Friday night we rolled back the domain name of our first out-of-beta website. After less than 24 hours of existing on the internet, nothingtoinstall.com was reverted to its original public beta name — webapps.stackexchange.com. We’re sorry for springing this on you at the last minute but – at least at the time – it felt like circumstances didn’t give us…
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Director of Community Development (former)
community October 4, 2010

Asking Better Questions

As Stack Overflow has grown, it has started to have some decidedly big city problems. The one we are most concerned about is an influx of very low quality questions. While we still believe in editing and improving low-quality questions to make them better, there’s a fundamental mismatch in scale and effort here — bad…
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Co-Founder (Former)
company October 1, 2010

Our First Area 51 Site Goes Public

Our very first Area 51 site proposal to make it all the way through … Initial Proposal (May 25th) Definition phase (May 25th) Commitment phase (June 14th) Private beta phase (June 30th) Public beta phase (July 7th) … has just arrived — as a real live non-beta public site! webapps.stackexchange.com — Q&A; for power users…
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Co-Founder (Former)
area51 October 1, 2010

An Area 51 Apology — and Clarification

We’d like to apologize to the Area 51 community. Allow me to explain with a diagram: In this diagram: Charlie Brown is the Area 51 community. Lucy Van Pelt is Stack Overflow Internet Services Inc. The football is the following proposals: Developer Testing, Compiler Design, and Vim. As Joel explained in Merging Season, if ……
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Co-Founder (Former)
community September 29, 2010

Good Subjective, Bad Subjective

Stack Exchange is about questions with objective, factual answers. We’ve been crystal clear about this for as long as I can remember, even back to the earliest, pre-beta days of Stack Overflow. It’s right there in the standard Stack Exchange FAQ: What kind of questions should I not ask here? Avoid asking questions that are…
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Director of Community Development (former)
company September 28, 2010

Server Fault: Hiring From The Community Again

In yet another blatant and egregious example of hiring from the community, we’ve just added a Server Fault user to our team — George Beech aka Zypher. Welcome to our two-man sysadmin team of ninjas, George! George will be working out of our NYC world headquarters. Read more about his and Kyle’s continuing plans for…
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Co-Founder (Former)
company September 28, 2010

New Global Inbox

One unwanted side effect of launching so many awesome new Stack Exchange network sites is that the more you participated in, the harder it became to keep track of all your questions, answers, and comments across every site you participated on. That’s kind of a bummer. Well, I’m pleased to announce we’ve added a new…
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