12 Facts About Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process.

Stack Exchange publicly launched in January 2011 with 33 Web sites; it had 27 employees and 1.

In February 2011, Stack Exchange Overflow released an associated job board called Careers 2.

In 2016, Stack Exchange added a variety of new sites which pushed the boundaries of the typical question-and-answer site.

In 2016, Stack Exchange announced the second iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project, in which they attempt to implement specific important features requested by the community to meet a distinct high-priority set of goals.

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Stack Exchange responded with two very-poorly-received messages which have since been deleted, and by a slightly less negatively-received apology several days later.

Users were puzzled as to how Stack Exchange Overflow acquired the rights for this relicensing of their past contributions, with some users explicitly stating that they did not intend their contributions to be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.

Primary purpose of each Stack Exchange site is to enable users to post questions and answer them.

Each Stack Exchange site has a "meta" section where users can settle disputes, in the style of MetaFilter's "MetaTalk" forum, because the self-moderation system for questions and answers can lead to significant arguments.

Stack Exchange allows users to donate some of their reputation to help questions receive answers or better answers, as well as to incentivize users to answer.

Stack Exchange tries to stay up to date with the newest technologies from Microsoft, usually using the latest releases of any given framework.

Every new site created in the Stack Exchange Network goes through a detailed review process consisting of six steps:.