Questions tagged [stack-exchange]
Questions related to Stack Exchange, Inc. (the company itself), doing business as Stack Overflow. For general questions about the SE network, consider posting on https://meta.stackexchange.com
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Stack Exchange, please stop torturing users with the comment experiment
On May 12th, Stack Exchange Inc. announced they are experimenting with new comment UI features on Stack Overflow.
Regardless of the merits of conducting this experiment at full site scale (it has been ...
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Where is the Stack Exchange performance page?
Where is this beautiful page with all good information?
Found one image from there. Please help me to find and see it again even if it’s not exists anymore. Maybe some backup?
And if it was removed ...
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Why do I have two logins with same timestamp and why I need to log in to all the Stack Exchange sites separately?
If my mind serves me right, whenever I logged into any StackExchange site, it would have authenticated me against all the sites. Now, I am asked to log into each and every site separately, and plus, I ...
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Language aliases for Stack Exchange sites and Stack Overflow requirements [closed]
There are Stack Exchange sites only for a few languages:
Russian
Ukraine
Portugal
Latin
Korean
Chinese
Japan
Italian
German
Esperanto
English
Same for Stack Overflow, only for a few languages:
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Are SO users legally entitled to any benefits from the SE-OpenAI deal?
I am not a lawyer, or at least not formally and not in the US, but I've read the recent post:
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models
I realize, ...
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Shouldn't the contributors be paid if LLM developers are being charged for Stack Overflow content?
I've come across this news stating:
Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content
Now, the content on Stack Overflow or the sister sites aren't the work of Stack Exchange ...
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Another slap in our face with this newest Stack Overflow blog post [closed]
"Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?", ask our overlords at Stack Exchange Inc, through the person of Ben Popper (sp?), the Director-of-Content, and Ryan Donovan, blog ...
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Moderation Strike update: Data dumps, choosing representatives, GPT data, and where we’re holding
Note: As part of the strike organization, this is a mirror of a post on the network-wide Meta, MSE. Make sure to check out the answers and discussion there, too!
Introduction
Since our strike ...
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Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
Note: as part of the strike organization, this post is a mirror of a post on MSE
Update
On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company ...
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It appears that the DeletionDate column in the Stack Exchange data dumps available on archive.org is always empty
I downloaded Post.xml file from https://archive.org/download/stackexchange Here, you can find what is inside the different XML files https://ia800107.us.archive.org/27/items/stackexchange/readme.txt ...
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Is the Stack Overflow employee compensation calculator still available publicly?
There used to be a compensation calculator hosted on Stack Overflow that was supposedly used to calculate salary internally for Stack Overflow employees (previously a PDF):
The page last mentioned:
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How to update a Stack Exchange profile [duplicate]
I can't find an option to update my network profile. It has outdated information and I'd like to change some things.
How do I do it?
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Sign-in with GitHub no longer available on Stack Exchange
I was logged into Database Administrators (dba.se) using the "Sign in with GitHub" feature. Today when I loaded the site, my account was logged out and the GitHub login method was no longer ...
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Can SO put "Paid Advertisement" or similar headers on blog posts that are written as extended advertisements?
"Blog" posts like https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/07/25/automate-the-boring-parts-of-your-job/ are actually just extended long-form advertisements. Can this be disclosed at the beginning of ...
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Some Meta questions have had [status-review] since 2014
I recently filtered on the status-review tag and noticed that there are nearly 150 questions tagged that way, some of which are quite old (the oldest being from 2014, which was 8 years ago as of today)...
