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What is the XY problem? When asking questions, how do I recognize when I'm falling into it? How do I avoid it? Return to FAQ index Other languages: ES, JA, PT, RU
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I know how to download the latest release of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dump, but I'm interested in downloading a past release and don't see those listed. Where can I find them?
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Update on the URL migration, May 15th 2024 The work described below will be under way shortly. For further updates, we'll be maintaining the update log in the main post for the Imgur migration. We're ...
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Today, we published a series of posts on the Stack Overflow blog that discuss recent industry changes and Stack’s future positioning. The series is a collection of thought leadership pieces by the ...
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Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog. TL;DR - top areas of focus include: User activation Iterating and scaling Staging Ground ...
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I’m elo, Stack Exchange’s Director of Reliability Engineering. I’ve been employed at Stack Exchange for just over three years - but this is my first time posting here on Meta! On December 10th, our ...
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In Code Golf's main chatroom, The Nineteenth Byte, we used to have a feed posting new challenges from our sister site Code Golf Codidact, specifically the RSS feed https://codegolf.codidact.com/...
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How does Stack Overflow leverage Cloudflare? Stack Overflow uses CDNs and their various tools to better serve the site's content. The current primary CDN provider is Cloudflare. While this isn't a ...
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The company embraces the AI hype and that's great. Together with the ethicalest and socially responsiblest AI providers1 the company is ensuring the internet is in the right hands. Naysayers will ...
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When running the Global Flag Summary userscript, 57 out of the 244 sites it calls to were successful, and the rest produced error status codes. Most produced 404 status codes, but towards the end of ...
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I noticed a user post a question that looked rather basic. I looked at their previous answers formulated in an other style and have a sort of senior level (even on answers from more then 10 years ago)!...
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When your global inbox contains chat pings, those links are only valid from the popup. When you click on Go to full inbox it takes you to a page where all the chat links have been rewritten from ...
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There have been several cases where SE staff has removed the featured tag from per-site Meta posts in relation to the strike, despite no (public) statement from SE regarding that. Unless there is a ...
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It apparently used to be the case that the robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com allowed search engines to index some parts of that domain; this robots.txt file was apparently intended to allow ...
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A 2009 feature request to add support for Markdown footnotes was declined in 2014. The reason(s) for declining appear to no longer be valid: We want to avoid creating proprietary additions to ...

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