Is there a page by Stack Overflow on how it evolved? A timeline of added functions would be nice. It might be interesting to see what ideas are most straightforward (early implemented, more important/desired) to be invented.
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This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.  It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee 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. i.e. bug fixes don't belong here, nor do mobile app updates.
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Wikipedia has a "" link on the front page that makes it easy for people to start exploring. It would be interesting to have something similar for Stack Overflow, perhaps with an additional (optional) constraint for "unanswered" questions. This might help eventually provide some attention to long-forgotten questions that weren't lucky enough to get an answer when they were new.
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I have seen this question now many times and every question here and on other forum points to  experimental tutorial by . Now sadly a lot of answers are invalid right now because this central link is down. I couldn't find anything by Googling so if anybody has a fork of the tutorial or a second source that would be great? The link can't be gone for too long, I saw an answer with it 4 months ago.  The only other thing I have found is , but it also references the now missing tutorial. Any ideas how to find it?
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I was just looking at  and they seem to be using the Stack Overflow engine or Stack Exchange.  But it seems to be hosted on their servers. How is that possible?
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I would love to see an actual native iPhone app for Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, etc.  I've actually developed a number of iPhone apps myself, and would certainly be interested and willing in doing the bulk of the legwork, but it would be necessary for the SO team to expose a real API, instead of simply RSS feeds.  Maybe if there's enough demand behind this, we can convince the SO team to build a rich API, which could be useful for many other applications, not just an iPhone app.
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See . Someone other than the OP changed the code to address a substantial problem with the it that was addressed as part of my answer. The problem was admittedly peripheral to the core question, but it was a primary differentiator between my answer and another answer submitted at the same time.  Any suggestions on what to do in this situation? Leave it be? Edit it back? Something else?  Update: I just found , from the "Related Links" section on the right, which is pretty relevant. I have to keep remembering to check there rather than just searching for answers.
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This came up in  , but I can't see good documentation or examples that explain how the feature works.
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May’s “The Loop” blog post was just posted, you can read it . A popular response last month to our post about how we receive, prioritize and implement feedback was a question around how this framework gets utilized in the practical sense. We thought that Dark Mode was a great feature to dig down into as it was so widely requested and anticipated.   We hope you enjoy this month’s post, please leave any questions or comments you have in this thread and we will respond ASAP.
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Could someone explain? I understand the basic concepts behind them but I often see them used interchangeably and I get confused.   And now that we're here, how do they differ from a regular function?
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During recent discussions at work, someone referred to a trampoline function.  I have read the description at .  It is enough to give a general idea of the functionality, but I would like something a bit more concrete.  Do you have a simple snippet of code that would illustrate a trampoline?
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Is it still a thing? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.   Ask Ubuntu: 264 Meta SE: 81 Linguistics: 56 Area 51: 51 (spooky!) Super User: 33 Unix &amp; Linux: 3 Stack Overflow | User Experience | Bicyles | Video Production | Music: Theory &amp; Practice | Retrocomputing | Genealogy &amp; Family History | Joomla: 1
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I know about , but in my case I need something that implements List, and not Set. So is there an implementation out there, in the API or elsewhere?  It shouldn't be hard to implement myself, but I figured why not ask people here first?
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Know of any good libraries for this?  I did some searches and didn't come across anything.  Someone somewhere must have done this before, I hate to reinvent the wheel.
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Today I posted  about a C++ issue I found a bit confusing. Since I am a complete beginner in C++, all I could do was to write a short summary and ask for advice. The question attracted a couple of insightful answers and I was quite happy with those. To my complete surprise, an hour later the question had received 3 downvotes without any comment or suggestion. Since I always put effort into making my posts decently formatted and thorough, it kind of struck a nerve. I was puzzled as to why. I am not a native English speaker so nuances of language usually elude me. Is it the wording? Tone? Formatting? Too RTFM? To quote a comment from :  @Martinho: I missed that OP's passing Buffer the first time. Can't imagine someone managing C strings without any idea how the C string functions work...  Did the question get downvoted because it displayed ignorance? How could I have asked it differently to avoid the downvotes?  Update I just had.. um.. a strange exchange with one of the members from the C++ community. That member posted an answer here attempting to explain the background. However, after realizing the contradiction in hers/his arguments a possibility of an extended chat session, the delete link got clicked. I am not going to reveal the identity but nevertheless will share the discussion. I feel it sheds some light on the issue. Note that the person was apparently not one of the voters. The deleted answer  I think the accepted answer to the original question also answers this question: There are lots of problems with your code. You asked why one piece of code (with several errors) didn't work, when some other code (also with several errors) seemed to work better. In reality the difference was just random, and neither of them really works. It took a lot of effort for someone to put together an answer, and I didn't have the time (being at work), so would just have downvoted if there hadn't been enough downvotes already. Leaving a comment that there were several errors in the functions didn't seem to be constructive either. Guess that those who did downvote might have felt the same.  The comment trail  Okay. Are You saying that the C++ community downvoted it because they had either no time or no motivation to answer it properly? – Saul 19 mins ago No, I'm saying it might have been downvoted because it wasn't seen as a good question. The lack of comments can be because of limited time. It was in my case. – XXX 15 mins ago Note that if you had asked the question right now, I might have answered it. Six hours ago I had to do some payed work. – XXX 8 mins ago Uh.. why would one want to downvote a question when busy but be willing to answer it later? To communicate that &quot;your question is unwelcome at this time, I am doing paid work, come back later&quot;? In such a scenario there is nothing I can do to make it appear as a good question. - Saul 1 mins ago
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I've recently started a major redesign for a large web-based financial tool. To aid future development, I'm planning on generating a UX style guide that outlines best practices for things like forms, page layouts, animations, etc...   The existing application is a big jumble of forms with little grouping or organization. I can see a few major categories, (Object CRUD forms, static data, user session management controls, etc...) but there's a lot of very custom functionality that doesn't fit the mold.  The company I'm working with does it's development overseas, and this documentation is intended to support future development. I'm not looking to design the most amazing UX ever, I just want things to be functional. What's the best way to communicate designs to remote teams?  Here's my question:  What's the best way to approach a big messy project like this? (Major groups first, then focus on each custom function? Do you even include the custom functions in the documentation?)
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One of the most popular questions on Stack Overflow,  has recently been deleted. Why was this done, rather than migrated to programmers.SE?  Does this not fall into the broad purview of Programmery questions, or is it really off topic?  I'm somewhat neutral on this myself, as I usually oppose "fun" questions that are there simply for fun's sake, but this is a rather old SO question and historically other similar questions from SO's infancy have been tolerated with grandfather status. Can anyone make a strong argument for or against?
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I've seen questions regarding  and , but this doesn't tell me why this field exists in the first place.  Do any internal processes use it, or are there any future plans for using it?