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5 days ago · What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026 This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges …
Awareness and Experience of Developers to Outdated and License-Violating Code on Stack Ove…
We performed two online surveys of Stack Overflow answerers and visitors to assess their awareness to outdated code and software licenses in Stack Overflow answerers. The answerer survey targeted 607 highly reputed Stack Overflow users and received a...
Attention-based model for predicting question relatedness on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is one of the most popular Programming Community-based Question Answering (PCQA) websites that has attracted more and more users in recent years. When users raise or inquire questions in Stack Overflow, providing related questions can...
An Exploratory Study on the Repeatedly Shared External Links on Stack Overflow
On Stack Overflow, users reuse 11,926,354 external links to share the resources hosted outside the Stack Overflow website. The external links connect to the existing programming-related knowledge and extend the crowdsourced knowledge on Stack Overflo...
Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter
Millions of users visit Stack Overflow regularly to ask community for answers to their programming questions. However, like many other platforms, Stack Overflow consistently struggles with low user retention and declining levels of user contributions...
A Tale of Two Communities: Exploring Academic References on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is widely recognized by software practitioners as the go-to resource for addressing technical issues and sharing practical solutions. While not typically seen as a scholarly forum, users on Stack Overflow commonly refer to academic sou...
Generating Question Titles for Stack Overflow from Mined Code Snippets
Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers as a popular way to seek programming-related information from peers via the internet. The Stack Overflow community recommends users to provide the related code snippet when they are creating...
Fit or Unfit : Analysis and Prediction of 'Closed Questions' on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is widely regarded as the most popular Community driven Question Answering (CQA) website for programmers. Questions posted on Stack Overflow which are not related to programming topics, are marked as 'closed' by experienced users and c...
Chaff from the Wheat : Characterization and Modeling of Deleted Questions on Stack Overflo…
Stack Overflow is the most popular CQA for programmers on the web with 2.05M users, 5.1M questions and 9.4M answers. Stack Overflow has explicit, detailed guidelines on how to post questions and an ebullient moderation community. Despite these precis...
Senior Programmers: Characteristics of Elderly Users from Stack Overflow
In this paper we presents results of research about elderly users of Stack Overflow (Question and Answer portal for programmers). They have different roles, different main activities and different habits. They are an important part of the community,...
Essential Sentences for Navigating Stack Overflow Answers
Stack Overflow (SO) has become an essential resource for software development. Despite its success and prevalence, navigating SO remains a challenge. Ideally, SO users could benefit from highlighted navigational cues that help them decide if an answe...
ChatGPT is putting Stack Overflow out of business traffic is down over 50%
ChatGPT has been crushing Stack Overflow. To combat ChatGPT they announced their own AI "OverflowAI" which includes AI-enhanced search to attract users back. **For any developers, what has your exper...
Cybersecurity Discussions in Stack Overflow: A Developer-Centred Analysis of Engagement an…
Stack Overflow (SO) is a popular platform among developers seeking advice on various software-related topics, including privacy and security. As for many knowledge-sharing websites, the value of SO depends largely on users' engagement, namely their w...
Do Subjectivity and Objectivity Always Agree? A Case Study with Stack Overflow Questions
In Stack Overflow (SO), the quality of posts (i.e., questions and answers) is subjectively evaluated by users through a voting mechanism. The net votes (upvotes - downvotes) obtained by a post are often considered an approximation of its quality. How...
SOGPTSpotter: Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Answers on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a popular Q&A platform where users ask technical questions and receive answers from a community of experts. Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of answers generated by ChatGPT, which can lead to incorrect a...
css - How to disable text selection highlighting - Stack Overflow
For anchors that act like buttons (for example, the buttons on the sidebar of this Stack Overflow page titled Questions, Tags, and Users) or tabs, is there a CSS standard way to disable the …
Reputation Gaming in Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow incentive system awards users with reputation scores to ensure quality. The decentralized nature of the forum may make the incentive system prone to manipulation. This paper offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the repo...
Install Visual Studio Code for all users - Stack Overflow
May 12, 2025 · I updated to the version here where it installs it per user instead of all. How do I install for all users instead? Do I need to install for each user now?
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned…
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