Going to , I can only see 3 websites: Stack Overflow, Super User and Server Fault.  Are there any plans to expand the selfserve advertising for the other websites as well?
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Some time ago, we announced that . This has gone well and we're extremely thankful to everyone for their support and feedback. Because it has been successful so far, we're going to be extending the program to the majority of our graduated sites. Well, we've pretty much already done that, but there are quite a few sites that have ads enabled, yet still display nothing. The thing is, we don't really have an abundance of clients offering products that a  would find relevant, but Amazon has stand mixers, a selection of super fine chinois, deliciously sharp cutlery and enough cast iron to fill the Gulf Of Mexico with . Beginning as early as this week (week of 5 February 2018), our ad team is going to be hand selecting affiliate ads to be displayed on select sites. The use of inventory will of course depend on the availability of relevant ads to display which means:  Some sites might see very few, if any ads. Some topics simply don't come remotely close to orbiting anything worth advertising. Furthermore, while graduated, some sites simply don't have enough activity for ads to make sense.  Since these are hand-selected, it could take a while for ads to appear initially.  These would of course yield to inventory from clients if clients had products that were relevant to any given topic.   Nothing changes when it comes to the . If you're used to occasionally seeing a community promotion ad, you'll just notice that you'll also occasionally see an ad for something that is likely to be of interest to someone interested in the topic that your site covers. In fact, to be clear, this is simply a continuation of the announcement we made in November of 2016. We just wanted folks to know that we're going to be continuing the program where there's good potential to show relevant advertisements, even if we don't have clients lined up with a demand for it. Where can I give feedback about a certain ad on [site]? Open a meta post on your per-site meta and let us know. Please remember, the bulk of advertisements are an effort to get something small back from folks that hit the sites through search engines and are extremely unlikely to ever become contributors. Their soufflé stopped falling, and we'll probably never see them again. Maybe we can get a few bucks once they realized that copper ions help egg whites stiffen properly and buy a bowl or a proper bloom whisk. However, you're the experts on these topics and we're very likely going to listen to you. What sites, specifically? Are any sites exempt? If you're a former Stack Exchange 1.0 site and / or subsequently joined the network under a special charter, nothing changes - don't panic :) For the rest, we're just extending what we're currently doing with ads on graduated sites to also include those where there's an opportunity to make sensible use of affiliate ads. If a site has less than 15k (average) daily visits, or fewer than roughly 50k combined total posts - it might not yet be time to invest in selecting ads to be shown there. But, part of this exercise is also seeing what works best. I don't really have feedback, just some suggestions Ads aren't just an opportunity to sell stuff, they're an opportunity to really show people that we understand a given topic. That, of course, makes suggestions from people that do that stuff every day quite valuable. Post on your per-site meta and our community / ad critters will take a look. Questions? Comments? Kvetches? Let us know in an answer or comment below. If anything about the plan changes, we'll update this post to let folks know.
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According to , the network has 94 Q&amp;A sites:  But the new  disagrees:  My first guess was that the about page count included private betas, but according to  there are only two of them currently (ELL and Magento). Tim Stone has a  for the inconsistency:  There are 98 sites, two of which are private betas, and two of which are Meta Stack Overflow and StackApps, which are only main_site Q&amp;A sites in the technical sense. The about page should show 94 sites.  Whatever the reason, the counts shouldn't really be different, let's pick one and stick with it.
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Update:  Update: We've heard you! . Please let us know what you think.  As  In a major effort to move as much UX cheese as possible in a single deployment significantly improve the site browsing experience, we have deployed a new version of the site navigation to Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange.  The catch is that this is only visible to users that explicitly enable it. What's new?  This is the list of major changes we're introducing. Unified home page All major question lists have been merged into a single page, the home page. This page has three tabs: new, which shows fresh content; popular, which shows the top posts over time ranges; need answer which helps you find stuff to answer. Almost all of these lists can be filtered by tag (we are working on the remaining ones). All of them allow different sorts and sets of questions. Finally there are further options to further customize your experience. Simplified top navigation Questions is now highlighted whenever we show a list of questions, including the home page. Unanswered has been removed. FAQ How do I get this?  Go to your , look at the bottom. Check the checkbox, or un-check it to go back to normal. Checking the box puts you in a waiting list. We allow people in batches to verify behavior under load, ensure we've fresh eyes as we fix the inevitable bugs and so on. There's a five minute cache expiration time, so any change you make might take a little to propagate.  Update: As we have 500 active testers now (you are amazing!), we will delaying new alpha activations until we roll out a set of fixes. Opting in now ensures you'll be in the next few hundreds to see the next version.    Update: We have activated 500 more testers after deploying a set of fixes. There are around 1000 testers active now. There are 3000 people in the waiting list, gosh! You might need to wait a little bit.  How can I help? Here's what we really want to know :-)  that we are not breaking stuff you used to do how easy is to find questions to answer, especially if you are a new user any ideas for improvement and feature requests bug reports  If there is anything you particularly hate, but it's not a breaking behavior, please think of a better alternative and suggest it as a feature request. &lt;3 Please read this  How do I get back to you? Use this question for general considerations only. Please use separate questions tagged with   or   as appropriate.  It's impossible to manage large amounts of bug reports or feature requests if you answer here. We periodically go through the list and ask answerers to move their bug/feature answers to a question and remove the post, and you likely will lose rep once the answer is gone. What are the next steps? We will spend the next few days hot fixing bugs which emerge. New ideas and breaking behaviors will be considered for the next iteration.  Thanks for all the feedback, we've planned the next iteration now, all the requests we're going to tackle in it are marked as . The ones tagged  will be reconsidered in the next cycle. Obviously feel free to test and contribute more, the new homepage is not going away.
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Since I am a regular Stack Overflow follower, I came across this and was shocked a bit regarding the design and user experience perspective.  Attaching picture 1 - it states that I can click any site and view a synopsis about it. Clear!!!    Attaching Picture 2 - you can see that when I clicked Webmasters, the design wants me to scroll horizontally to view all information and basically it hides information.    It would be nice, if it did something like below :
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have already been created through .  have already completed their beta stage and are waiting for launch.  are in public beta stage.  are in commitment phase in   proposals are listed in   Now it is really confusing to find a suitable site to ask a question. As an example - I host a blog using . Now I have a question about this hosting. I want to post it in a . Where will I post? I have 2 options available now.     Are developers trying anything to solve this confusing matter?
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Super User got hit by another batch of spammers creating profiles. They've got accounts on other sites from what I've heard from other mods and from the comments here.  Last time it was streaming. Now it's  (as of december, looks like they're spamming scammy finance too). I have 160+ pages of users from that search, and a quick look suggests most of them are spammers. Comments from this post indicates it's network wide - and a quick check indicates Stack Overflow has a handful of these too, though not as many as we have.  While the powers at be have been taking action, both directly, and indirectly, it feels like between shared IPs and search, mods might be able to take a good chunk of these out if we can somehow have a way to delete accounts somewhat in bulk. You guys are awesome. But these... People keep doing it still, and it would be nice to see their works undone.  Unlike our streaming spammers, they've switched to phone numbers, presumably because Adam so kindly blocked links.    There's a few good suggestions at mitigating these - but ideally - I've heard from fellow mods that we want them gone.  They add to the broken window effect - which we can't do anything about due to sheer volume, and they probably poison our search engine results.  We can probably reduce the risk of oops by filtering by IPs (clearing everything on an IP lets me whack, 10, or so users at once, rather than clicking through 3-4 pages a user) and optionally selectively not deleting accounts that seem legit, we can probably clear out a bunch of these without really needing CM intervention. It does make it a little too easy, but these incidents, well kinda need a flamethrower's gentle warmth.  I'm cool with a no. I'm probably going through the usual channels in future. Would be nice to have something that lets mods deal with this effectively though.  Related:    - Actually goes into the impact of this  by a user - so clearly these are discoverable to an average user
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As a new user, may I ask what kind of Q&amp;A and discussions this "Meta&nbsp;Stack&nbsp;Overflow" deals with?
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Some of the sites seem to have a much better performance than others. In particular, during Stack Overflow's first round, I found that the stats always seemed quite low, with no traffic, and no seeming way to get out of the situation.  How can one best get through the launched phase, achieving the best performance?
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Today I came across an ad on this question on SO:  (I don't expect it to stay very long).   There was a community promotion ad on the right hand side of the site, I think for one of our English sites. It had a sentence that I only partially remember:     Idiom ... poor or even poorer   I found it interesting, so I clicked that ad. Which caused a new instance of SO to open within the ad space. Unfortunately I failed to take a screenshot. I've been refreshing the page like crazy, but can't get the ad to appear again.  Edit: I managed to get a new community add, for the photography site, and captured a screenshot:   Edit2: This bug still persists, I saw it today with an OOP add from CodeReview, and an area 51 add.
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I'm really worried about professionalism.  My site would be something like http://mywebsite.uy instead of http://mywebsite.com.uy.  What do you think about this practice? What should I have in mind at the moment of choosing one?
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I just saw this ad on the side of Stack Overflow:    I currently work for stealth.travel.  It even shows it when I click on the link!    How is it possible that the system does not link 2 + 2 together and not show me the company I already work for in the banner ad? (not that I am looking for a new job, just curious how my own company showed up there)
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I would like to advertise my  on StackExchange. After spending 10 minutes creating a 220x250 image, I was told that new users can't link images. I have been around a while on SO, so I feel this is a little over-protective. I need at least 10 points. Can someone upvote me, please?
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I'm using  and trying to switch from Web Applications to Stack Overflow.   I enter sta into "Switch sites" field, but search showing unrelated results first (3D Printing, 3D Printing Meta, Software Engineering ...):
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I know Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky are the owners or creators because I came by the site from reading their blogs.  Who else works for Stack Overflow in here?  Does Jon Skeet? There's also a fair number of 100k+ users now.  The answers from them are quite informative. It seems that to get that many points in such a short amount of time (the site's only been online for 2-3 years?), you would need to be spending quite a lot of time, regularly on here, so either they   Have a ton of spare time either at work or outside of work Are unemployed (seems unlikely given their breadth of knowledge) Work for Stack Overflow and their job is partially to post answers.   These guys seem too knowledgeable so reason 1 or reason 2 seem unlikely, so I suspect reason 3.
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It's    that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for 's recent posts, presumably because they all link to his website. Initially I disagreed because his answers seem for the most part relevant to the question, but then I looked into it more and realized there's three things that set this apart from most of the related cases that have come up:   This isn't an occasional thing -- he's posted  in the last year This isn't a random blog he writes for a fun, it's a for-profit company he  and makes money promoting I'm not willing to go through all 412, but from the sample I checked, he generally doesn't mention that the products he's recommending are his own. The site is linked from his profile, but most people aren't going to check that   Is all this considered acceptable use, or are the spam flags accurate?
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SO has helped me so much in times of need. It is crazy - sometimes I am having a huge issue with a program I'm working on at school or work, and I post it on SO and the answers come quickly and easily. Lots of time it's a typo, while others it's a deep misunderstanding of mine. I wonder how I can fit in here at Stack Overflow. How I can contribute. In fact, I feel such a “beginner”, I don't even know where to look half the time. But I see there is now a place for /Programmers/ which leads me to wonder if there can be a site for beginners - and strictly beginners. Beginners post in Stack Overflow, and only beginners can post answers. Meaning, you must ask a question in the beginners forum in order to answer one. Or something, I'm not sure, I just want a place to connect with others who are just starting out how to learn about programming, and want to get the chance to answer other beginner questions so I can learn more (you learn 40% of what you do and 90% of what you teach). What do you all think about this?
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On the  blog post, nearly all the images are broken. I assume this is because they are all hosted on stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/ rather than zgab33vy595fw5zq-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/, and they got destroyed in the removal of Blog Overflow. I looked around at a few other blog posts, and this post seems to be the only one having an issue.