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Time to get on trend
March 31, 2022 Question: who's got a new lewk? Answer: Oh, you know Hello fellow coders. Hold your scroll for a hot second and let me hip you to some big news. We know the youth love to express themselves through social media. Posting pics with the perfect #hashtag and, of course, the latest and most lit filter. Well, starting today, Stack Overflow is all up in this party, fam. If you can be extra, so can we. Before you start with the “Ok Boomer,” chill, bro, and check out the new looks we’ve created.
What's new in Content Health?
Outdated knowledge can cause big problems Last year, when we announced the launch of our Content Health feature, we wanted to address a problem faced by most organizations. That is, as you conduct business and try to keep up with the rapid pace of the work week, your documentation and knowledge can grow outdated very quickly. Outdated knowledge has a ripple effect that ultimately damages trust.
Get actionable steps to grow your knowledge base
The amount of new information that is created, shared, and consumed in the digital world on a daily basis is unfathomable. Knowledge is being shared at all moments of the day. According to Statista and the World Economic Forum, there are 5.7 million Google searches conducted, 148,000 messages sent on Slack, and more than 500 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute. Similarly, organizational knowledge is shared within Stack Overflow for Teams around the clock.
Foster a continuous learning culture with Stack Overflow for Teams
When employees are encouraged to be curious—to ask questions and seek answers—they experience professional growth through knowledge building. It might be uncomfortable for some to choose curiosity over certainty and admit they don’t know everything. Organizations with a psychologically safe environment make it easier for employees to be vulnerable, speak up for help, and acquire new knowledge.
Five ways to create a continuous learning culture within a psychologically safe environment
The mass exodus from the workforce known as the “Great Resignation” has made us all pause and wonder at the root cause of these departures. Especially in the tech industry where resignations rank among the highest with a 4.5% increase in departures compared to 2020. We conducted a recent pulse survey and found that developers rank “opportunities to learn” in the top three reasons they stay with an organization or decide to move on.
Psychological safety is critical for high-performing teams
Big launches and milestone achievements deserve to be celebrated. When organizations take time to recognize the hard work that went into the completion of a release or even a bite-sized milestone, this helps employees recharge and stay motivated. The celebration might entail a release party, ending work a few hours early on a Friday, or a handwritten thank-you note. But what happens when a team fails? The deadline for a big release is missed. A bug causes a security vulnerability.
Introducing Content Health, a new way to keep the knowledge base up-to-date
We’ve all heard the saying, “the only constant in life is change.” Both humans and organizations face massive change all the time. Change happens with business objectives, strategies, processes, structure…the list goes on. These changes affect not only future projects but your existing documentation and knowledge. How do teams balance learning new skills and identifying content that requires attention?
Find knowledge faster: New Articles features
In the second half of 2020, we launched Articles on Stack Overflow for Teams in the Business and Enterprise tiers, which introduced a new first-class content type intended for users to proactively share long-form knowledge. Within Articles, users can easily create knowledge documents, announcements, how-to guides, and policy notices. Since that initial launch, we have listened to customer feedback and have incorporated the top three requested features into a new release.
The Overflow #58: The ecological cost of #cryptoart
Welcome to ISSUE #58 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, the unreasonable ecological cost of #cryptoart, why nobody is practicing continuous deployment, and our new feature: personalized feeds on Stack Overflow for Teams. From the blog Personalized feeds now available on Teams stackoverflow.blog For You is a personalized feed that displays in every Team user’s instance.
Announcing the launch of our Slack V.3 integration
In 2018, we released an integration between Stack Overflow for Teams and Slack. It’s now one of the most popular ways for users to interact with our platform, and we have been steadily upgrading it with new functionality based on feedback from customers. We’re pleased to announce that we’re releasing version three of our Slack integration with plenty of new features to reduce context and tool switching while streamlining the developer workflow.
Personalized feeds now available on Teams
so-for-teams January 21, 2021 Stay up-to-date on your teams questions and answers with the new For You feed. Internal information is constantly evolving. Oftentimes, it’s challenging to keep up with the latest information. Between writing code, PRs, testing, active deploys, and so much more, there can be an overflowing number of things on your team’s plate. That’s why we’re excited to share the launch of a new feature within Stack Overflow for Teams: For You.
Stack Overflow for Teams has a new kind of content - Articles
Today, we’re excited to announce the first-ever new content type to Stack Overflow for Teams, our knowledge and collaboration SaaS product. We know that developers and technologists are often or pinging colleagues on chat to find the information they need – and even then, they’re often left with outdated or incomplete knowledge. Articles is a game-changing functionality in Stack Overflow for Teams. It brings all formats of knowledge into one place for easy building, searching and sharing.
Coming together as a community to connect
Stack Overflow is a community at our center. And communities come together in times of need. Our normal work routines have been disrupted and may continue to change for a while. We’re all still defining the new “business as usual.” We’re all trying to figure out how to maintain team collaboration when lines of communication and physical access to teammates are limited.
We're Rewarding the Question Askers
In my very first blog post, I wrote about what a personal experience taught me about the Stack Overflow community. I said we were going to step back and re-evaluate how we deliver feedback, how we can improve content quality, and how we can reduce friction between people. I said that our goal is to have the question asking process be painless and beneficial for new people and Stack Overflow veterans alike. During this re-evaluation period, we noticed something in our reputation reward system.
Security Update - Stack Overflow Blog
company May 16, 2019 Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow. We have confirmed that some level of production access was gained on May 11. We discovered and investigated the extent of the access and are addressing all known vulnerabilities. We have not identified any breach of customer or user data. Our customers’ and users’ security… Update: We shared Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow. We have confirmed that some level of production access was gained on May 11.
Podcast #63 - The Plumber's Up To 67 Coins
Welcome to the Stack Exchange Podcast Episode #63, recorded March 6, 2015 in front of a live-ish audience. Today’s podcast is brought to you by Cool Whip by Kraft Foods. A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt — learn more! Our hosts today are Joel Spolsky, David Fullerton, and Jay Hanlon… as usual. So what’s new? David went to London. (We have an office there.
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