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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Revisiting the "Hot Network Questions" feature,...

This is definitely 100% on point, optimizing for controversy / clickbait is hugely dangerous on the SE network. I wrote about this in 2012, same thing applies...

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on What are the effective communication channels for...

@ColleenV I would say that some of the changes were kinda hard in that it wasn't clear exactly what to do to "fix" things (though radically overdue, like the /ask page improvements, this is a page...

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps

YAYYY collapsible left nav 🎉 that will be excellent!

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Rename Hot Network Questions 'Watching the Pretty...

@gnat "Which kind of suggests that those willing to change anything about HNQ need to figure a way to make SE unhappy about how these work" that's called negative publicity on social media, my friend

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Are we creating divisions in our quest to make new...

I'm with @Mehrdad here. Ten years in, outside of new libraries / platforms / frameworks / language features.. I'd expect the "top 1000" questions any programmer could conceivably ask in the top 100...

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on What are the effective communication channels for...

ya'll need to give Tim and the other diamonds from SO who regularly post here some credit. This is an excellent response, and I've read many excellent SO diamond responses here on meta. I'd say the...

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Goodbye and thank you, Jaydles!

nooooo our jaydles! 😱

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on What changes have resulted from SE network sites...

TELL US ALL THE SECRETS TIM POST

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow have moved to CC...

Apparently people have forgetten that we did this same exact thing (blanket re-license) in the transition from 2.5 to 3.0? Get some context, folks! View the site footer in the wayback machine!

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow have moved to CC...

Take a look at the stackoverflow site footer in the wayback machine circa Jan 2009. Note the CC version. Note the current CC version. Same process, different year.

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Comment by Jeff Atwood on Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow have moved to CC...

Take a look at the stackoverflow site footer in the wayback machine circa Jan 2009. Note the CC version. Note the current CC version. Same process, different year.

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for SEDE tries to auto-login when I pick my OpenID...

Did you go to the logout page (on a SE 2.0 site, not sure if SEDE supports this) and click "Log Out Everywhere"? (source: stackoverflow.com) That will clear HTML 5 Local Storage, and thus your network...

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Defining the format of the mighty Stack Exchange...

The diagram from the Stack Overflow about page covers it. In a few words, I guess I'd say editable voting/reputation based Q&A system. I do hope that the Stack Exchange engine becomes the iPod of...

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Are there any URL shorteners for Stack Overflow...

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/announcer-booster-and-publicist-badges/ Note that the word "link" under every the question contains the short URL you are looking for. Also, for unanswered zero...

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for How do I post a picture on Stack Overflow?

You can also use HTML syntax, eg <img src="http://sstatic.net/stackoverflowmeta/img/apple-touch-icon.png">

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Feedback Request: New Timeline Question View [closed]

There is an experimental timeline view for questions now available on meta ONLY! (Now working on SO, SF, and SU as well) This is partially motivated by comments about how difficult it is to follow...

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Please implement notifications on an as-it-happens...

This already exists, for answers to your questions and responses to you. See http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/new-global-inbox/

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Changes to syntax highlighting

locked for the history - please post bugs and feature-requests separately. -Shog9 We're changing the way syntax highlighting is done on the Stack Exchange engine. As you probably know, we use Google...

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Users with 5k+ rep have "approve tag wiki edits"...

Seeing all pending edits is a 10k ability -- otherwise you should see edit (0) or edit (1) under a question in the normal course of browsing questions... (source: stackoverflow.com) ... and you can...

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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Can Stack Overflow Inc. purchase the .se top-level...

(source: backpacking.se) It's always Sweden, isn't it?

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