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What is a canonical question/answer, and what is their purpose?

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Is something up with rep calculations?

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Should the tag [startprocessinfo] be merged into [processstartinfo]?

254 votes
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Retiring the beta site

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Popular tag of nothing? [duplicate]

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Should the Community bot stop bumping dead questions?

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Should compiler (toolchains) bugs be allowed on the main site?

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Why are code block renderings screwed up? [duplicate]

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I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the site redesign

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Add functionality to collapse long text/code blocks

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Closure (duplicate/already answered) chains don’t seem to preserve meaning

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Should reputation points be calculated via a sliding time window?

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Advantage to Old Users

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Newcomers vs early overflowers [duplicate]

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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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Stack Exchange: A database of knowledge or an expert help site?

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Release notes and bug fixes for beta.stackoverflow.com

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Don't advertise the beta on SO

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What does "Simultaneous dates" mean when hovering over a date in a post timeline?

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Is "this didn't work" an okay comment?

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How should “primarily opinion-based” be applied on Meta, given that Meta is meant for discussing site behavior and policy?

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Stack Overflow is becoming a ghost town. Now what?

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The right answer to my question just got deleted as AI content. What should I do?

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Is an inline image with an HTML img tag in a post appreciated or not?

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Cookies consent box animation is too slow

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"Share Feedback" does nothing on the experimental open-ended questions [duplicate]

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Which InfluxDB questions are on-topic?

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Why are questions about software tools that are not unique to software development off-topic?

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Please bring back UTC tooltips for dates and times

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Theme in beta is too harsh [duplicate]

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Good user or not [duplicate]

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What is the rationale behind "Over a year ago" for when a comment was made?

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Allow all questions about developer-adjacent software and services

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

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Where can I ask a question to clarify my understanding of Microsoft Entra ID?

14 votes
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Tag trends page is broken

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Why is my spam flag option missing for this post? [duplicate]

46 votes
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Free votes experiment has graduated: Users without voting privileges can now cast zero-reputation votes

217 votes
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Can we not do "Over a year ago" please?

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The Stacks Editor breaks inline code formatting when typing consecutive backticks

3 votes
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Understanding "Only one additional @user can be notified" when pinging a single user (not the post owner)

20 votes
1 answer
603 views

Career advice on Stack Overflow

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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow

2 votes
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Why is there only one question shown for my watched tag, even though there is much more? [closed]

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53 answers
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New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com

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In the Beta site why are closed questions not declared as closed questions?

78 votes
4 answers
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My question never got answered. What can I do?

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


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