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All users on Stack Overflow can now participate in chat

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2025: a year in moderation

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

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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?

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Modernizing curation: A proposal for The Workshop and The Archive

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How does the continued decline in posts since May '25 influence our interpretation the state of SO?

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Where should I have asked this question? [duplicate]

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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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Can I ask questions about SMPP and MAP protocols?

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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

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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?

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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow

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

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

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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]

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

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Question types are confusing

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

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Issue with Answer Submission Appearing as Failed [duplicate]

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How can I improve my allegedly "unfocused" question?

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

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

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Why is my question marked as open-ended? [duplicate]

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The current status of question types?

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Comment times are hidden/inaccessible when over a year old

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Inbox message's activity indicator showing negative number

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

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How does the Triage review queue work?

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Moderator engaging in Abusive behavior

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

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

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Popular tags displaying empty "tag" on homepage

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How did someone with 1 rep post a comment?

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

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What is the policy regarding sparse self-promotion in 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]

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"Edit Code Snippet" button doesn't work

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

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

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

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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]

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Proposal: Sharing knowledge via SO in the age of genAI

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What does “Best practices” indicate? [duplicate]

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