The 2025 Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange wrap—our top ten questions of the year!
As 2025 comes to a close, we're sharing some of the top questions from across our entire Stack Exchange Network.

As 2025 comes to a close, we're sharing some of the top questions from across our entire Stack Exchange Network.

The way that developers interact with knowledge has changed in the age of AI. That's why we created AI Assist—a new way for users to access our 17 years of expert knowledge, and how Stack Overflow is remaining the always-open-tab of programmers around the world.

Including a new MCP server, expanded access to a new question type, a long requested community ask to make copying code easier, and more!

An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.

From a new kind of vote to a preview of the upcoming redesign, check out what’s been happening at Stack Overflow over the past month.

See what we’ve been doing to make Stack Overflow even more helpful for students this year.

Ryan is joined by our very own Ash Zade, Staff Product Manager, and Alex Warren, Staff Software Engineer, to discuss our newly released stackoverflow.ai, how it’s enhancing user experience by combining human-validated answers with AI, and our future plans for deeper personalization and community integration.

User research for the next era of Stack Overflow.

Improving the place where developers have real conversations and real collaboration.

An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.

An experiment to level up your coding skills on Stack Overflow, while learning in a space that welcomes creative problem-solving. Discover how we built it.

Jon Skeet, the first Stack Overflow user with a million reputation, sits down with Ryan to share his wealth of knowledge on all things development: the deceptively simple but actually complicated problem of timezones, the importance of clear documentation for programmers, handling breaking changes and upgrading legacy systems, and the need for improved communication skills among developers.

In this special episode, Ryan is joined by our Senior VP of Communities, Philippe Beaudette, and the Trust and Safety team at Stack Overflow to discuss maintaining platform integrity and managing user safety, handling complex issues like harassment, and how their team balances transparency and privacy online.

This year, we're not just collecting data; we're reflecting on the last year of questions, answers, hallucinations, job changes, tech stacks, memory allocations, models, systems and agents—together.

An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.

Community “management” at its core is supporting and enabling communities to manage themselves.

An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap

For those that missed our February AMA, let’s discuss the future of Stack Overflow

Mark your calendars to learn more about Stack’s Future—Feb 26th.

An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.

We’re excited to announce our 16th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations.

An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.

We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
