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Stack Overflow's Cloudflare Usage FAQ
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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How can I report bugs with or request features for the Stack Exchange mobile apps?
I'm using the official Stack Exchange mobile app for iOS or Android, and
My app crashed!
It doesn't look good on my new smartphone.
It won't run after I updated my device.
I noticed another bug.
I ...
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Where can I find site community blogs?
At one point, all sites had blogs, although this was later discontinued for the majority of sites. I've also heard that some stacks still run their own blogs!
Where can I find these site blogs?
Return ...
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Why isn't it required to provide comments/feedback for downvotes, and why are proposals suggesting this so negatively received?
Sometimes my post receives downvotes with no explanation on what I've done wrong. Even worse, sometimes I just get snarky comments!
It seems like this is especially bad for new users, who are made to ...
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What can I do to lift or reduce a suspension?
I understand what it means to have an account temporarily suspended, but what happens if I think the suspension was too harsh, unjust, or should be overturned?
If I am a new contributor and ...
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The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta
The blog post Seven Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta gets linked to prominently from every beta's meta. However, this blog post is somewhat inaccurate and misdirects new users. In almost every ...
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Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?
Users with less than 50 reputation points cannot write comments on questions and answers that they don't own.
Why does this limit exist?
But I want to contribute now. What should I do instead?
But I ...
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A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC BY-SA license. For my fellow ...
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