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-29 votes
24 answers
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Modernizing curation: A proposal for The Workshop and The Archive

-14 votes
1 answer
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How does the continued decline in posts since May '25 influence our interpretation the state of SO?

23 votes
20 answers
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Should we stop closing questions?

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1 answer
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Where should I have asked this question? [duplicate]

8 votes
8 answers
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Do you agree with Gergely that "Stack Overflow is almost dead"?

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Why is Stack Overflow asking for permission to scan my local network?

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1 answer
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Can I ask questions about SMPP and MAP protocols?

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1 answer
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Should bounties really cost reputation?

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Mods aren't denoted as mods (missing their diamond ♦) when interacting with open ended questions

16 votes
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Can "Please add a Minimal, Reproducible Example" be added as an auto-comment when a "Lacks MRE" flag or vote is cast on a question?

-219 votes
75 answers
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow

326 votes
9 answers
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Negative question scores should be prefixed with a − (minus sign) instead of a - (hyphen)

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0 answers
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How did this asker escape the staging ground? [duplicate]

-122 votes
10 answers
4k views

Stack Overflow chat opening up to all users in January; Stack Exchange chat later

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"Not about programming or software development" but very useful to SO community with 850 upvotes for question, 79 answers starting with 1,300 upvotes [duplicate]

41 votes
1 answer
520 views

Bug when posting answers? Appears to be duplicate of itself?

46 votes
4 answers
453 views

Question types are confusing

5388 votes
64 answers
1.6m views

Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned

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Issue with Answer Submission Appearing as Failed [duplicate]

5 votes
1 answer
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How can I improve my allegedly "unfocused" question?

16 votes
1 answer
186 views

Escape closes the editor on opinion-based questions, discarding what you were writing with no warning

16 votes
1 answer
240 views

I just lost an hour's worth of writing on an open-ended post reply because the Markdown editor lost my text on submission

8 votes
0 answers
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Why is my question marked as open-ended? [duplicate]

20 votes
1 answer
446 views

The current status of question types?

115 votes
3 answers
1k views

Comment times are hidden/inaccessible when over a year old

27 votes
2 answers
402 views

Inbox message's activity indicator showing negative number

23 votes
0 answers
150 views

Comments are dated "Over a year ago" instead of with the date posted [duplicate]

925 votes
1 answer
50k views

How does the Triage review queue work?

-77 votes
3 answers
768 views

Moderator engaging in Abusive behavior

1 vote
1 answer
97 views

User profile no longer displays 'top x percent of users' statistic?

7 votes
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63 views

Experimental opinion-based Tooling question post visible relative response date displays wrongly

7 votes
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47 views

Popular tags displaying empty "tag" on homepage

47 votes
2 answers
3k views

How did someone with 1 rep post a comment?

20 votes
1 answer
311 views

Show rejections in the inbox-dialog as the current implementation is highly inefficient

36 votes
1 answer
2k views

What is the policy regarding sparse self-promotion in answers?

1 vote
0 answers
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I wrote one answer, but Stack Overflow seems to have duplicated it so I see two versions (one was edited further) [duplicate]

6 votes
0 answers
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"Edit Code Snippet" button doesn't work

0 votes
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Posting an answer leads to white window and URL "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/submit" [duplicate]

9 votes
0 answers
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Comments UI change: If you edit a previous comment while writing a new one, your new draft disappears

21 votes
1 answer
2k views

What is the Stack Overflow Lobby? Is it different from other rooms in Chat?

-40 votes
2 answers
579 views

Why do people edit posts?

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Posting answer leads to error, when I click to post again, there is a duplicate warning and "1 new answer has been posted" [duplicate]

-51 votes
3 answers
701 views

Proposal: Sharing knowledge via SO in the age of genAI

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What does “Best practices” indicate? [duplicate]

-43 votes
1 answer
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Add a policy and a tag for self-study / homework

-32 votes
3 answers
1k views

What tags might help me find questions about "prompt engineering"?

-11 votes
2 answers
152 views

Arranging answers by Tags so that those answers are visible first and then remaining should be arranged below

3 votes
0 answers
64 views

Spurious "An error occurred submitting the answer" [duplicate]


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