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is where users like you discuss bugs, features, and support issues that affect the software powering all 150 Stack Exchange communities.
This is an unofficial list of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, but a Stack Exchange developer changes the Accepted Answer to ensure that the latest changes remain on top (given default user settings).
To see the list in reverse chronological order (latest entry on top), .
For those adding new features here: please post only feature changes that affect the whole network and have some global impact. E.g. bug fixes don't belong here, as well as mobile app new versions.
October 2015
: It is now possible to .
: : "The stats presented should now be consistent across all flag types, including waiting for review, disputed, declined, aged away, etc."
: Rejected migrations now have an additional notice: "Votes, comments, and answers are locked due to the question being closed here, but it may be eligible for editing and reopening on the site where it originated."
: New Help Center page for automatic deletion, linked from deletion banners: "This question was automatically deleted. "
: Dupehammer got a new design, and now applies to .
: Automatic deletions by Community are now
with an indication of reason: one of RemoveMigrationStubs, RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveAbandonedQuestions, and RemoveAbandonedClosed. .
September 2015
: Bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue .
: Tag badges
by users that have not acquired all privileges.
: Checking the "community wiki" box when posting an answer now .
: "Inappropriate" flag option for posts renamed again, now it is .
April 2015
for both questions and answers. Closing categories are now stated o "offensive" renamed as "inappropriate".
: Questions deleted as spam/inappropriate now have the body and title hidden from view (), as was . For users under 10K, the "not found" page . Also, there is no slug in the URL for such posts.
: New profile pages .
These feature separate "Profile" and "Activity" sub-pages.
See, also, the blog entry: .
March 2015
: . Question edit grace period ends once an answer has been posted, and any post's grace period ends when someone other than the poster adds a comment. Rollbacks and edits of rollbacks now always create entries in the revision history.
instead of Low Quality review queue at Stack Overflow. And while these questions are being triaged, they're not shown on the home page.
: . Asker is presented with options: "That solved my problem! / No, my question is different. I will edit to explain how". The first option causes the Community user to immediately close the que the second option presents the editing screen. ()
review queue .
: Modernized
aging logic. Aging votes and flags starts after 14 days, regardless of view count. Allowed re-casting votes and flags that've aged away after 14 days.
(currently Stack Overflow only) instantly disputes flags if the consensus is not "unsalvageable". This would go into effect .
February 2015
: New “User Activity” page , seeking feedback from the community before applying it network wide.
: Questions that are too old to migrate (60+ days) are now .
: When opening the flagging box, if a flag was cast previously, now the system accurately identifies which kind of flag the user previously cast.
January 2015
: . If a user (moderator or any other user) votes to delete a question that has duplicate questions linked to it, their vote won't go through and they would see a warning about why.
to users –
that lets you see what our algorithms think, download the data, and disable the predictions if so desire.
This applies network-wide, except on Stack Overflow, Mathematics, TeX, Salesforce and Stack Overflow em Português (where the delay is a full hour) and meta sites (where they enter the queue immediately).
: When logged in to private beta, user can .
December 2011
a tag-wiki-specific "not helpful... does not follow any of our tag wiki guidelines" suggested-edit rejection reason.
: The /reputationpage now shows the reputation earned from suggested edits.
: Moderators (and the users themselves) can now see
(for users that have ever changed their name)
November 2011
: The newly redesigned profile pages have been pushed network-wide.
: Spoiler text is now .
in the form of . These may also contain a user ID for tracking purposes, but sharing them .
: The new-look profiles have been rolled out to
and , but not the site metas. Also other sites including EL&U, WepApps, Gaming and Ubuntu.
: nofollow
links in "reputable" posts.
: New bronze badge "" for reviewing 300 posts and acting on over 60 of them.
: When reviewing a suggested edit, you can now .
October 2011
: The review section now lets you . Doing so allows you to directly take actions on these posts (such as voting, flagging, commenting, &), and hides them from the review section.
: Stack Exchange .
to Stack Exchange newsletters.
in user profiles, showing all the edits that member suggested and their status.
: Email notifications .
: When placing a bounty on question asked by other user, .
September 2011
: When rejecting an edit you can now .
: "Post Made Community Wiki" .
: Links to comments on the profile page will now , even if it would usually be hidden (currently only if the comment is on an answer).
: Moderators can add a
that will display at the bottom of the post.
: You must be a
on Stack Overflow.
Unregistered users may still answer questions however.
: On Stack Overflow,
in a question before they can ask it. (This was also discussed during .)
: Users are now .
: The minimum bounty on a question
is now 100.
: Questions with an
to an existing question can no longer be submitted.
: The featured tab now sorts with a weight that gives a
to higher bounties.
are now supported.
: The badges page now includes .
: @name can now be
using the tab key, similar to chat.
Flagging a post for moderator attention, and then casting the final
vote, no longer earns an increase in flag weight.
Network profiles no longer use ugly guids, but a pretty account id.
: Management and promotion of .
: Locked posts now include
they were locked (), and can be optionally configured to automatically unlock after a certain amount of time has passed.
: Email notifications for individual questions are no longer available.
Instead, users can receive .
: Deleting a post that is the master of a closed duplicate will now provide a warning.
: An advanced search option hasnotice:1 has been added to find posts with moderator notices.
: The revision diff list .
Declined flags will now
that is included in the user's Flagging Summary.
: You now have
for every 1k above 10k reputation (beta sites may differ), with an upper limit of 30 delete votes per day.
: , users now have full access to the suggested edit queue.
In other words, if the first bounty on a question starts at 50 rep, the next bounty on that question has a minimum rep of 100, the next 200, the next 400, the next (max).
: LinkedIn removed from sharing options
: Users can no longer single-handedly undelete their own posts if they
they can only
like any other user.
: The sharing buttons are now shown on the trilogy in addition to the SE 2.0 sites.
are allowed per user now.
: Voting to close as a duplicate now lists questions that were .
August 2011
: Avatars now have a
which expands when hovered over. (This was first tested on Meta sites and is now deployed everywhere.)
"mini-site", as
for all Facebook developers. When using a Facebook account to log in, this also pulls your Facebook profile picture to be used as your avatar, .
: New bronze badge "" for visiting every section of the .
: New gold badge "" for achieving a flag-weight of 749.
: Tools and Review
(on the left) at 10 the
link in the top bar remembers the last selection.
: The "links" tab on /tools is gone and now those links are inside other pages like "stats", "close", "delete".
badges added for editing posts that were inactive for 6 months.
upon image upload failures.
to include tag wiki excerpt.
: Control-Enter in search box
in a new tab/window.
: The search text box now
when focused, temporarily hiding the top-bar links.
for having reviewed 100 suggested edits.
: In the 10k tools, .
: Titles that appear to start with a tag now have the tag .
: Comments containing multiple @name
unless they contain a backtick.
: Trivial answers containing a link to another question in the network .
for Stack Exchange sites launched. Users can switch back and forth from the mobile theme using the 'mobile' link at the bottom of every page.
: Anonymous and low rep (&15) users
where logged in users usually see "add comment". When moused over, this shows "Was this post useful to you [yes] [no]". This is just for testing purposes right now - it does not affect the post's score.
: New heuristics
(only for users with &= 50 reputation).
is now enabled network wide to people with the editing privilege.
: It is no longer possible to award a bounty .
: 10k users can now see the Migrated tab on , which was previously a ? moderator tool.
added for .
: Migrating to another site requires , instead of a simple 3/5 majority as before. This change applies only to Stack Overflow.
: Close- and reopen- votes now : if four days elapse without a close or reopen vote, the votes begin aging away. Posts with fewer than 100 views do not expire votes.
: In comments between the post owner and only one other person,
if it is at the beginning of the comment as it is not needed. (The post owner is always notified of comments on their post.) Moreover, @postowner (or an invalid @lert) does no longer block a subsequent @ see #8 in
December 2013
Recalc is performed automatically only.
In case of reputation inconsistency that does not resolve itself, please file a .
: Personal data is
when viewing one's own profile.
when flags have been handled in the 10K tools.
: The 10K tool "post feedback" aka "anonymous and low rep user feedback" . R.I.P
is now available.
has been introduced in the homepage of each site, "recent tags" and "recent badges" lists .
November 2013
on the "delete post" dialog.
: , even for users with less than 50 reputation points and anonymous visitors.
(or earlier): when calculating the Gravatar email hash for those who do not have a Gravatar account, in some cases .
October 2013
: Deleted answers that have had any spam or offensive flags raised against them will not show the answer body but the following text: "This answer was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown - you can see the revision history for details". Where "the revision history" links to the answer revision history. The vote box (with score) and comments will still appear. ()
: In user history, Moderators can now see if a user is post-blocked, when, and if they've tried to post since being blocked. ()
September 2013
: Duplicates can now .
: The dialog for flagging posts was redesigned in order to streamline the process. For example, the options for spam and offensive are now listed first. Also, duplicate votes are now separated from close votes.
: Any approved edit on a closed question .
: New users (& 10 rep) can now .
August 2013
?: It is possible to see . /users/recently-deleted-answers/&userID& and /users/recently-deleted-questions/&userID&. Linked from "answers" and "questions" tag in profile page.
: Closing a question will .
: (estimated date) Custom comments in flags now .
: All flags that appear in a user's flagging summary that are not yet dismissed by a moderator have the marking "active" in it. It appears to mean "awaiting attention by a moderator". .
: As a counter-measure against robo-reviewing, review ban times
based on the amount of previous bans up to a maximum of 30 days.
: The reputation requirement to access the First Posts and Late Answers queue was bumped up to
: . If more than one VLQ flag accumulates on the post before the review has ended, a number of "Looks Good" responses equivalent to the number of flags is required to dequeue it.
: The : "Request clarification or suggest improvements." On Meta it is "Request clarification or add information."
: Close votes .
: When an abandoned question is auto deleted, .
: Comment flags are now
: When a moderator accesses private information about a user (such as their e-mail address, full name and IP address),
in the user's history.
: Comments , unless they were deleted by the OP of the comment.
: . Later, other review histories were also made available (no official announcement found for that).
with privilege categorization and a progress bar to track progress to the next privilege.
: The question and answer ban messages , and the help center
no longer link to
: : You start with 10 flags per day, you can end up with as many as 100 per day. You get an extra flag per day for every 2000 reputation points or 10 net helpful flags (helpful-unhelpful).
: , rolled out network-wide. See also
: Badges page is incorporated into the Help Center and , cross network. For example, .
replaces FAQ pages on all sites.
2013-06-??: Tags are
while writing a new question or editing an existing question. (No official post at the time of implementation, basing the time on )
experimental feature introduced for questions where the primary value arises from the community's regular efforts to keep them updated via edits.
: Diamond moderators are now .
: Edit timestamp of posts .
: Edits reverted during the grace period
instead of vanishing.
Editing tags only will result in the same behavior as retag.
April 2013
: : Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' and delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.
is implemented on all sites. It links to a new
of all Stack Exchange sites.
: Users are now shown a persistent (but dismissable)
linking to /about on the site.
March 2013
: The Linked and Related lists on the right sidebar are now displayed with larger text and with the score for each question.
: The Close (or Delete) link . A tooltip (on hovering) displays the remaining required votes.
: If a closed question is edited by the asker within 5 days, .
: Users are now .
: A "delete" link
after "edit" for comments on mobile theme.
: A question (or answer) with Votes to Close (or Delete) now shows the number of votes already cast and the number of votes needed to close (or delete) (e.g., (2/5))
February 2013
: New image upload is being tested on Meta, adding .
: [About] in comments , translated automatically as a link to the site's about page. (e.g.
for Stack Overflow)
: When a comment thread contains a comment by a user whose name starts with a non-ASCII letter (e.g. Я) and you write new comment, .
: The revision history of a question that was closed as a duplicate is now
as part of the "Closed as
duplicate" notice.
: If a visitor is not logged in or doesn't have enough reputation to vote, the vote system redirects the vote to the anonymous feedback system, and shows a .
: The auto inserted text for questions closed as duplicates has been changed to "This question already has an answer here:" followed by link to the other question and the number of answers it has. The text is no longer edited into the original question but rather displayed externally. While the question is still open,
and it becomes visible to everyone once the question gets closed. Questions closed as duplicate prior to this change still have the old "Possible Duplicate:" text in them.
: The close/flag/bounty dialogs , and are made
: The "close as duplicate" process : the interface to search for duplicate questions has been improved, and users may no longer vote to close questions as duplicates of questions that do not have an upvoted or accepted answer
January 2013
: Automatic
has been . We're kicking blatant
out of the queues automatically now. Included are .
: Accept rates . Like flag weight, they will continue to be calculated for backend use.
: A question closed as a duplicate
a "&[duplicate]" appended to its title, rather than just "&[closed]". It also shows "marked as duplicate" instead of "closed as…" in the post notice.
: First version of
to act as Quick Start guide for new users. New Bronze "Informed" badge for reading the entire page.
: If you voted to close a post, and it hasn't been edited since the time it was closed,
has been rolled out network-wide.
: A new elasticsearch-based search engine . New features include multi-term searches defaulting to AND rather than OR, word stemming, excluded terms -term, infavorites: coming back, ranges for answers: and created: and score:, and more.
December 2012
has been updated, mainly "thinning down" text.
has been introduced in First Posts and Late Answers review queues.
has been introduced for those who fail multiple
in a short time.
: When an abandoned question is auto deleted, .
November 2012
: removes .
October 2012
: : after 20 reviews in a given queue, you're done for the day - if you want to continue reviewing, you can switch to a different queue. Limit is doubled for queues with large backlogs.
: Reopen Votes review queue
to vote whether or not to reopen closed questions.
: The number of reviews required to accept/reject suggested edits
to two network wide (versus one before) and three on Stack Overflow (versus two before). Moderators can still cast the final vote like before.
(likely earlier):
"This account is temporarily suspended for asking programming questions on MSO" introduced.
September 2012
(and encouraged) in First Posts and Late Answers review queues.
for completing community review tasks. User can earn
(1 review),
(250 reviews) and
(1000 reviews) once for each review queue (Close Posts, First Posts, Late Answers, Suggested Edits and Low Quality Posts). The previous Reviewer badge (for reviewing posts in the old system) will no longer be awarded.
: You must be a
on Programmers Stack Exchange.
Unregistered users may still answer questions however.
August 2012
are introduced: known cases thrown into review queue as "gotchas" to keep people from just nailing "Looks Good" or "Close" or whatever without reading the posts.
has been added. It contains pages for many common issues, offering suggestions and a form to email the team as needed. This is the new target of the "contact us" link in the footer, which was previously an email link.
: The new .
: The edit link . The tooltip will display a reason such as "Post is locked".
: "question eligible for bounty in X" message . (Before this change it was hidden when question got an answer)
: New badges
and , for browsing an election page and for v .
adds , ; removes
in the multicollider (next to the inbox).
at the time of posting by ticking the “Answer your own question” checkbox below the “Post Your Question” button.
: When there is a community moderator election .
: Keyboard shortcuts (created with &kbd&) on all sites
like they've always been on , with a less boxy layout.
: Suggested edits that change the post's title now have .
: Stack Exchange is experimenting with
and might post comments and add them to a list on the /review tab when they are dead.
: , clearly you can only see your votes.
You can see deletions/undeletions/closures and reopens as well as up/down votes ().
: On Stack Overflow,
and edit queue increased to 200.
: The Visit Meta box .
: It is now possible . An undone vote cannot be recast.
: Accounts tab has been removed from user profile page. Top 5 accounts are still listed in the Summary view, header and "view more" .
: Migrations can now be rejected: if the question is , it becomes merely closed as off-topic on the source site.
: Manual .
: When anonymous users visit a question that is closed as duplicate and has no answer, they are .
: ; due to heavy activity, the feature is limited to tags view on Stack Overflow.
: Questions locked for historical significance
: You should keep the reputation for the post even if it eventually gets deleted .
: . Initially deployed on Meta, and gradually being deployed to other sites.
: Reputation changes , without the need for a manual recalc. (Sync takes up to 5 minutes on a delete/undelete action.)
: Automatic question banning calculation
to better reflect the idea that downvotes can be much more common on meta, for reasons that aren't necessarily related to quality of the post.
: Vote counts .
: The "Welcome to &site>..." banner message displayed to new visitors .
(not counting excerpts) introduced: .
: Comments can now be easily linked to using the .
: Suggested edits can now be
when selecting the "Improve" option, causing the Community user to decline the suggested edit with no reputation bonus to the suggester.
: Flag weight was . Users having flags now see
a "helpful flags" count on their own profile linking to the , which now contains a breakdown of flag outcomes by flag type (moderator attention, spam, offensive, comment). The
badges were modified to require a number of helpful flags (80 and 500, respectively) instead of a specific flag weight.
: "very low quality" flags now
from the Community user with them, and are dismissed when the post is edited.
: The populist badge . Also note that losing your qualification for a already-earned badge will (usually?) no longer result in your next badge of the same type being withheld.
: The Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges can now be . The time limit has also been removed. Sharing direct links to answers now
towards these badges.
: Users asking questions with auto-caught bad titles
a link to .
December 2014
as either of pending, approved, rejected.
November 2014
October 2014
: Introduced an option to have a
to guide question askers and editors.
: New rejection reason for suggested edits that don't make any positive changes to the post: .
: Intra-word emphasis .
September 2014
: The "thanks for your edit" message now includes a . (Post edits only.)
: . More matches shown, gravatars shown, shows spaces in names.
: Changes to .
: Rate limiting of asking questions
(extended to Programmers since ).
: , runnable HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code snippets, introduced on programming-centric Stack Exchange sites (Stack Overflow, Code Review, as well as Meta Stack Exchange). ()
: iOS app refined for iPad is .
: Suggested edit review offers a new button “” instead of “Improve”. This action will fail any known-bad audits, while "Reject and Edit" action will pass these audits.
: Numbered list can now .
: "Too minor" .
: Suggested edit review offers a new button “”.
August 2014
: Runnable code snippets are .
: When a user without full editing privileges suggests a new edit, he now .
: In case of an edit conflict resulting in automatic rejection of a suggested edit, a .
: . The latter implies the former yet allows users to add a comment with one click.
: Review-Overview now
for a short period of time.
: Multiple periods at the end of comment reply (e.g. @Joe...) .
: Everyone can now . Moderators can see everyone's skipped items.
have been introduced: Curious, Inquisitive, Socratic.
: Spam/Offensive flags on Area 51 .
: Community Bulletin , on all sites.
: When moderators or users with the "create new tags" privilege attempt to create one or more new tags either while asking a question or during an edit
to reduce risk of tags created by mistake. This feature is enabled on a per-site basis.
: In close vote review audits . Voting to close as duplicate won't fail "known good" audit.
on all sites, for questions that have no connection to a site's topic at all.
: Post status banners (e.g. Closed, Locked) .
: On Stack Overflow,
for users having less than 125 rep.
- currently enabled only on Stack Overflow, with a threshold 50 for how many outstanding reviews there must be with a tag or close reason in order for it to show up on the dashboard.
: In order to fail or pass a review audit .
: Users with gold tag badge have .
that deal with users who request deletion in order to evade restrictions that are placed on their accounts at the time of deletion.
: Featured questions from MSE now .
: Official iOS app for Stack Exchange .
(only by staff) when a user tries to submit blacklisted content such as tags.
: Users with a track record of poor questions or answers will now .
April 2014
: 10K users
instead of just pending suggested edits.
are introduced.
when deleting a post could lead to a question ban.
: Graying out downvoted answers in meta discussion questions .
: The 10k flag queue .
: Moderator record tools for annotations and moderator messages .
: Meta Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange have .
: The last activity information on the front page : asked, answered, or modified (that covers edits, bounties, and the like.)
: . Instead, flags will be cast in select situations for moderator attention regarding multiple edits to a post or multiple answers to a post.
: Moderators can now . In addition, the message on automatic bans triggered by failed audits includes a link to at least one such failed audit.
: . N is: 5 by default, 20 for Code Golf, 3 for Programmers, Workplace, ELL. Users with privileges to protect (15K) can now unprotect any protected question.
: When a post is deleted by six "Recommend Deletion" votes from within the review queue, . In addition, when the post author undelete such a post, .
2014-04-??: , as do .
2014-04-??: .
March 2014
: Moderators can now .
: Moderator Newsletter updates are now pushed to the Top Bar Moderator Inbox.
: Top Bar Moderator Inbox now includes snippets from moderator messages in the alerts.
February 2014
: The number of questions in the close review queue .
: The Top Bar now uses
when depicting flags (blue) and suggested edits (beige).
: Hot questions list at sidebar .
: The order and choice of sites on the top-left site switcher .
: Comments on election nominations can no longer be flagged. There will be extra monitoring to ensure this doesn't result in abusive comments.
: Improving a suggested edit is now considered more substantive than an approved suggested edit ().
January 2014
: The mobile site now uses a mini version of the .
2014-01-??: Moderators can now see who validated a chat offensive flag in the flag dialog.
: the , including during follow-up edits within the 5 minutes grace period.
: Moderators can now .
: The auto-award period of bounties has been .
: (Date approximate) Anchored links to the FAQ, e.g. /faq#bounty, now highlight the specific FAQ entry at the top of the page.
on user profiles.
: The “subjective and argumentative” close reason has been replaced by .
: When adding a new comment to a post with many comments between two users in a short time, a link is provided to .
: Questions on a few sites (, , ) that
are excluded from the multicollider, the SE home page, SE 2.0 ads and SE tweets.
: In addition to being favorited, tags can now also .
: [tag:...] syntax , but is styled as a normal link instead of a .
: Flag counts are now shown in the , and the flag page is redesigned (10k users).
: The accounts tab has a button to .
from questions and answers before they are posted.
: A number of
are available for use in comments.
when 2 edits at the same time clash.
with flag reasons, similar to flagging posts.
are now shown when composing a question, based on the question title, body and tags. This is similar to the “Related” questions in the side bar after posting the question.
: When a bounty is started by the question owner and the owner accepts an answer during the bounty period, the
unless the owner explicitly gives it to another answer before the bounty expires.
: Quality filters are now applied to questions. (Here are
10K only .)
: Question downvotes
and will not be subject to a -1 rep penalty.
Downvotes to answers are unaffected and still "cost" 1 reputation to cast.
: Vote counts on profile don't show votes cast
added for .
: Tag popup in the Favorite and Ignored tags sections on the homepage sidebar has been removed since the .
: User profiles now separate vote counts based on post type (question/answer).
: Images uploaded to SE sites
i. as their URL domain.
: In addition to the 30 general votes users can cast per day, there are now an additional .
to posting 70
questions over the last 30 days.
: New , shown by default to new users.
: Flagging Summary page shows valid/invalid flags count as history.
: New suspensions might now .
: Some returning visitors from Google
a welcome back and reminder to vote.
: Tag sets were renamed to
and improved by .
: At 200 rep, a .
to specify if you want to search only in questions or only in answers.
: You can now
at your profile.
: Flag weight is .
: Daily number of close votes on all Stack Exchange sites have been , and 50 on Stack Overflow.
: Questions closed as “not a real question” and “off topic”
(excluding questions that get migrated elsewhere).
: Questions with enough answers to push them into CW will have the new answer field
by an "Answer This Question" button, which asks the user to read through the existing answers first to make sure the new answer isn't a duplicate.
: Migrated questions
show [migrated] instead of [closed].
: New users (&100 reputation) can
answer their own question within 8 hours.
: Votes that were undone (revoked within the undo window) one can now come back later to cast a new up/down vote.
: New answerers (&100 reputation)
when focusing the answer box.
profile has improvements from the course of several days. .
: Posts deleted by a moderator now include , and can no longer be .
: The 404 page shows .
profile is now .
: Question up-vote rules now sync to meta and can only .
: User's flair now got a separate tab on owner's profile.
: The possibility to see downvotes exercised by other users in the redesigned reputation tab of their user profile .
: When saving a post that was meanwhile edited by someone else, .
: Clicking your flag weight (in your profile) now . See also:
: Clicking the link button on posts now creates a popup from which the link can be copied, instead of being the link itself, after .
: searching Markdown source for URLs , like
: The accounts tab on a user profile has been redesigned and now pulls the view .
Accounts are now sorted by reputation in descending order.
: If you flag a question as "does not belong" while you still have usable close votes, .
: The 6 character minimum length for suggested edits is .
: Moderators can now
from a post.
: The envelope in the header next your display name linking to recent activity has been changed into a dropdown menu that opens a popup overlay with information and links.
: The flag weight can now .
: Auto-deletion of low score, zero answers questions .
: , you are now notified if post author answers your comment, even if they forget the @, if you are the only person who has commented so far.
: The user profile page has been reworked.
The reputation tab has been reworked, and .
: There is a new "responses" tab in your user profile that lists activity by others on your content.
: You can now
the language used in code snippets that will be passed to Prettify after saving the post.
has been redesigned and now hosts user leagues.
: When browsing with a mobile device, you get a . This overrides per-site themes.
: The log out link .
of internal links are now
in the preview.
: Requirements for achieving the Strunk & White and Copy Editor badges .
Now it only counts how many revisions are made, not individual title or body changes.
Each requires 80 and 500 revisions respectively.
introduced.
: Users can now see their own
on their profile page when it is . This value is also visible to moderators.
You can now
to help support and promote proposals and beta sites.
: A user's flag weight is now considered in adjusting the number of moderator flags a user gets each day.
The details can be found .
: Marking inline code with backticks ` now works , and bold & italic is now also possible in comments.
: ANY active mod flag suppresses items from /review, prior to this only YOUR flags were suppressed for YOU.
: /review pages now present posts in random order, to .
implemented and available to 20K users. Answer must be -1 or lower and needs 3 votes. . Again 3 votes required.
During migration, tags will be checked (and replaced if found) for tag synonyms on the destination site.
Tags that do not exist on the destination site will be stripped from the question.
If the previous steps leave a question with no remaining tags, it will be closed as off-topic on the original site and not migrated,
questions can be migrated to TeX.se and will be ).
: Flagging for moderator attention now counts for the Citizen Patrol badge.
This change applies retroactively.
: Privilege changes:
Create tags has been raised from 150 to 300.
Retag has been raised from 200 to 500.
A new 5k privilege to approve or reject tag wiki edits has been added.
A new 15k privilege to protect a question has been added.
The question must be older than a day.
You can also un-protect a question you protected, but not one that has been protected by someone else.
The requirements for editing a tag wiki have been simplified to a 20k rep privilege.
: The Stack Exchange Data Explorer now allows you to .
: The Markdown preview area
renders embedded tags (the kind created with[tag:tags] syntax).
: The "all sites" tab in the global inbox is now , if above 200.
: Moderators can now
to users, through the website. The addressees will see , and can reply to the moderators.
: Comments
an inline drop-down mini-help.
: The queue of suggested edits is
visible for 10k users.
: When a suggested edit is approved, the user who suggested it
+2 reputation.
: After , low reputation users can
suggest edits, . Edits suggested by unregistered users show as . People who suggest edits
up to 1000 reputation, 2 for each approved edit.
an updated design, proposal categories, and a . A51 posts are now oneboxed in chat.
: Stack Exchange now uses
for search, related questions, and the 'similar questions' in Ask a Question. Option infavorites is no longer supported, some search keys like intitle have changed names, and a new option body is introduced. See
on the /search pages.
: The three-character requirement for
has been relaxed . Like @Jo will now notify Jo Miller, but not John.
: The main list of rooms in chat now displays the global inbox (AKA StackExchange(TM) MultiCollider SuperDropdown(TM)).
: Sort option "oldest" , replacing "newest."
: Tag pop-ups now lists
which is equal to the number of people who have favorited (marked as interesting) the tag and the number of email subscribers.
Subscribing to RSS is not tracked.
: Flag dialog . Its "flag for moderator attention" option now provides several default reasons, : "not an answer", "low quality" and "should be CW". It allows for
to a moderator. The daily maximum number of flags has been increased. And if a particular user keeps moderator flagging for reasons that are considered invalid, their flag weight decreases. And for those users who continually flag reliably, their flag weight increases.
to publish the most interesting questions on each Stack Exchange site (but not the SOFU trilogy) every three hours. Like: .
: Authors can now only
if it has zero answers, or only one answer with zero score. In all other cases, voting or flagging is required.
: The "flags" tab in 10 it now shows comment flags in addition to spam/offensive flags, and lets users display the entire post and add their own flag directly from the flags tab. It also preserves the other mod tool tabs.
: When hovering over any tag (like this one: ) a pop-up will appear. From this you can subscribe to email notifications, add the tag to your RSS reader and view the tag wiki excerpt. Where no tag wiki is available an invitation to create the tag wiki appears. The pop-up also includes links to the FAQ, Info & Top Users pages for the tag.
: Chat "whitelists"
specified users to talk regardless of their rep. Users with less than 20 rep now get only four hours of chat time before being locked out.
: Moderators can now .
: The vote-to-close panel now has a more prominent close button (for closing the panel itself, not for voting).
: New "faq" tab added to the /questions page,
(but not removing "hot" functionality).
: Comments now support
e.g. [foo](/en-us/library/ms535874(VS.85).aspx)
: Page footers now indicate when a
post has been made to the SO blog.
: Questions migrated to another site
instead of staying on the current site.
now goes back
to the first activity.
: After migration, question owners
with migration details.
: Label for code-button in
: Users can .
based on questions that you have previously visited. Setting an interesting or ignored tag preference disables this feature.
now support
as new questions arrive in your tag set.
/review page on all sites (eg. , ) for tracking potential problem posts from new users. This uses some .
: To make the code highlighting work better, it now
to guess what language is used in both the question and its answers. When no guess can be made, or on sites on which highlighting makes little sense (Super User, , ...) no highlighting will be used.
: The Stack Exchange Data Explorer
: New badges for posting in Meta sites:
(bronze) for one post with score of 2 on meta, and
(silver) for 10 posts with score of 2 on meta.
: User profiles
(number of questions asked and answers given, along with total question score and total answer score) for each tag on the stats tab. Tooltip gives full details.
: Page titles are now (conditionally) prefixed with the most important tag,
: Close votes on the
are now split according to close reason (exact duplicate, off topic, noise or pointless, too localized, etc.)
: Off topic migration dialog now
rather than site itself.
: Comments are no longer pre-expanded after you've entered a single comment, you must re-click "add comment" each time.
implemented, though well-hidden.
: Sort option "oldest" for answers , to easily see what has changed.
: Chat now displays a new messages icon next to the "Other rooms you're in" list when users receive replies in other rooms.
is now supported.
for chat users.
: Mouseover of chat messages now highlights any replies to that message.
: The "activity" tab of the user profile now gives the option to dynamically show the content of recently posted answers.
: Questions are now sorted by "" on the homepage rather than time of last activity. (Stack Overflow only.)
: The frequency of the notification envelope lighting up
in favor of the global inbox.
: Behavior of [tag:tags] on meta sites updated to refer to the pa new syntax introduced for a meta-site's own tags ().
: Support for the &kbd& tag
on Meta Stack Overflow.
: Posting links to the very same site now automatically . So, just insert /questions/59445/whatever. to become . The title is not shown in the preview, but inserted when the post is created or edited. The title is not updated when it changes, unless the post is edited. It does not work in comments, nor for links to other SOFU sites. Trailing punctuation marks such as a comma, dot or question mark (without URL parameters) to get a readable sentence work just fine.
: Posting tags inside questions and answers . Example: instead of writing [`[tags]`]() to display , users can now write [tag:tags] to display .
introduction of , including .
introduced.
from "10 comments scoring 10+" to "10 comments scoring 5+".
to non-public user profiles.
for Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges.
: Suffrage and Sportsmanship badges .
: The reputation score on top of each page and on the user page
(click the numbers).
: Close reason for "migrate to other site" becomes .
by non-moderators.
: Bounty events .
page . It was announced .
: The , /tags/&tag&/topusers.
: Automatically-saving .
: New users (&10 rep) get
when they want to ask a question. (Stack Overflow only.)
: Image-based flair .
that @name replies work, and to not expose part of the OpenID identifier, user names
to the OpenID name, but to userxxx.
(for earning 100 non-CW upvotes in a tag) introduced. The Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges (for
to questions, which
now) introduced.
by specifying the title and/or tags query parameters, like
: New badge,
(for first Tag Wiki edit) introduced.
: Support for , like .
has been : Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts. Community wiki questions are penalized. The benefit of many answers is capped at 10, and we only look at the score of the top 3 answers. We only degrade based on question age, and not the last update date on a question.
has been added, accessible through the image option in the toolbar.
: Questions from IP addresses or accounts with a history of extremely poor questions are . Votes on questions are taken into account, and this yields , showing "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account".
(and other meta-tags)
: Searching within favorites
: "Info" tab of tags, including a
implemented.
: : I don't want notifications of activity on questions I've favorited (to disable the notification that was introduced ).
: New badges for
(, , , ) and a
() introduced. Additionally, the , and visible through clicking on a badge on the Badges page or a user's profile.
: Bounty award tooltips .
: Using the browser's Back button towards the user page, now
to where it was.
: Your profile now . This is visible only to yourself and to diamond mods. No more worrying about whether you've missed a day!
It has since been rolled out system-wide. (date is approximate)
of the bounty system. Any user with sufficient reputation can start a bounty on any question. A question may have multiple bounties, though only one active bounty is allowed at any given time. Bounty awards are no longer tied to accepted answer in any way. But the system no longer tosses in +50 bonus reputation to a bounty. (.)
: SEDE, , which for SO also "can be used as a permanently linkable tool for teaching general SQL and relational database concepts — we can be our own Northwind or Pubs database, when answering questions tagged [sql]". (Since December 2010, its URL is .)
: User profile .
: . A stub is left, just like with closing, and the revision list for the target question keeps better details on merges.
feature has been added so that 1 rep users can't post/spam on questions with a high search engine ranking.
: , if the score is negative. Automatic 301 Moved Permanently , for users with & 10k reputation. Add noredirect=1 to avoid this.
: Signatures and taglines are
in the /faqs.
: . New mechanism for . Keyboard
can be used to close the windows.
: The Super User FAQ now explicitly prohibits .
: Notification (experimental) of activity .
that automatically deletes tags six months after they're created if they've if necessary, this adds .
for deleting closed questions.
: To ensure @reply comments work, new usernames .
between the trilogy sites.
on the Meta homepage. (Actually .)
tabs on the homepage/ of Meta. (Which you could also do
on other pages.)
: Replying to @fran?ois and @j?rn can
also be done using @francois and @jorn.
: Reputation report , now you can check rep-cap status from purely upvotes (reached) and upvotes + accepts (exceeded). Note that bounties are not included on any of that. And Epic/Legendary badges calculation based on exceeded.
inquestion:this to limit the search to the current question (using the referrer as sent by your browser).
: User profile character limit
(up from 2,000 characters).
even if they haven't commented.
: For new users,
(within the trilogy).
: "" added as the Meta equivalent of the "not a real question" close reason.
to "", if you are logged in through multiple computers, and would like to log out from everywhere at once.
to enforce including words in the results,
to limit results to some question.
was changed into a more specific "You last voted on this question / Mar 28 at 7:55 / Your vote is now locked in / unless this question is edited", hence also allowing you
when you voted if your memory fails you.
: A new , above the existing "Related" posts. It's , and ordered
to put the "best" related links at the top (score, # answers, # views, answer scores).
: , [the Markdown way]().
: , also auto-deleted if the question indeed gets closed and the comment still .
: Bounties can no longer be awarded immediately, but only .
: Despite earlier drastic reductions of the vote-undo window , that vote-undo window .
: , which could be an edit of an existing post.
: Comment formatting and replies in . See also the FAQ:
Oct/Nov/Dec 2009
: , within a 5 minute window, yielding the little pencil icon: .
when clicking the vote count:
Need a minimum number of reputation points to see this (currently 1,000, though it could vary from site to site).
: Cut off internal links in comments show the question title (actually: the text after the question number in the URL, without the dashes) .
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