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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Co-Founder (Former)
community September 28, 2010

Factionalism: Site or Tag?

Let’s say I told you we were going to create a programming website that merged all the C#, Java, Ruby, Python, and PHP programmers, so they could all ask their questions together — and simply tag those questions with the appropriate language. You’d probably get a response like this one: I disagree with merging. I…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community September 23, 2010

Flair: Now Even Flairier

When we introduced user flair back in May 2009, we provided two ways to embed flair, either with an iframe, or JavaScript. That may have been fine for a programming website like Stack Overflow, but it wasn’t so hot for … normal people. That is, people who do not live and breathe markup like us…
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Co-Founder (Former)
area51 September 17, 2010

Merging Season

Area 51 is filling up with thousands of ideas for new Stack Exchange sites, and a pretty clear pattern has started to worry us: too many ridiculously niche proposals, overlapping proposals, and proposals that are already covered by an existing site. Do we really need a site for each individual content management system? The Stack…
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Co-founder & Former Chairman of the Board
community September 16, 2010

Super User Chat Now Available

As promised, we are slowly rolling out the third place across our network… even for ewoks! In addition to chat.meta.stackoverflow and chat.serverfault we just brought up chat.superuser.com: It’s only appropriate that, after adding per-site metas, we would also add chat to complete three out of four sites in the original “trilogy”. superuser.com Q&A; for computer…
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Co-Founder (Former)
area51 September 14, 2010

Pruning season

Soon, we’re going to close down one of the 24 Stack Exchange sites that were created over the last two months. Sadly, the Gadgets Stack Exchange will go dark soon. A lot of the questions on that site were about Apple gear and Android gear; those questions can be migrated to the (beta) Apple site,…
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Co-founder & Former Chairman of the Board
community September 11, 2010

Global Network Auto-Login

We now support automatically logging in to any site in the Stack Exchange network. By that I mean, as long as … You have recently logged in to any Stack Exchange network site You hold an existing account on the target site you’re navigating to You are using the same OpenID credentials … the site…
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Co-Founder (Former)
company September 10, 2010

Server Fault Chat Now Available

As promised, we are slowly rolling out the third place across our network. We started with chat.meta.stackoverflow, and as previously announced on the Server Fault blog, we now have chat.serverfault.com. You may remember we rolled out per-site metas across the entire Stack Exchange network, as well as for Server Fault and Super User, back in…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community September 9, 2010

Announcer, Booster, and Publicist Badges

We just rolled out three new badges to encourage sharing worthy questions: Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses in 3 days Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses in 4 days Shared a link to a question that was visited…
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Co-Founder (Former)
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