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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 across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.
Stack Gives Back 2025!
We’re excited to announce our 17th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations.
How Stack Overflow is taking on spam and bad actors
If a new post looks very similar to content that has been recently removed for being spam, it's likely spam too.
Now everyone can chat on Stack Overflow
Registered users can now join public chat rooms from day one, making it easier to connect, learn, and participate in the community
What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026
For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong.
How AI is helping us build better communities
MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or help the growth of these communities.
The 2025 Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange wrap—our top ten questions of the year!
As 2025 comes to a close, we're sharing some of the top questions from across our entire Stack Exchange Network.
Introducing Stack Overflow AI Assist—a tool for the modern developer
The way that developers interact with knowledge has changed in the age of AI. That's why we created AI Assist—a new way for users to access our 17 years of expert knowledge, and how Stack Overflow is remaining the always-open-tab of programmers around the world.
What’s new at Stack Overflow: December 2025
Including a new MCP server, expanded access to a new question type, a long requested community ask to make copying code easier, and more!
Community Products roadmap update, November 2025
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.
What’s new at Stack Overflow: November 2025
From a new kind of vote to a preview of the upcoming redesign, check out what’s been happening at Stack Overflow over the past month.
Stack Overflow is helping you learn to code with new resources
See what we’ve been doing to make Stack Overflow even more helpful for students this year.
We built stackoverflow.ai with the community and for the community
Ryan is joined by our very own Ash Zade, Staff Product Manager, and Alex Warren, Staff Software Engineer, to discuss our newly released stackoverflow.ai, how it’s enhancing user experience by combining human-validated answers with AI, and our future plans for deeper personalization and community integration.
Research roadmap update, August 2025
User research for the next era of Stack Overflow.
Renewing Chat on Stack Overflow
Improving the place where developers have real conversations and real collaboration.
Community Products roadmap update, July 2025
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.
Getting creative with Coding Challenges
An experiment to level up your coding skills on Stack Overflow, while learning in a space that welcomes creative problem-solving. Discover how we built it.
Programming problems that seem easy, but aren't, featuring Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet, the first Stack Overflow user with a million reputation, sits down with Ryan to share his wealth of knowledge on all things development: the deceptively simple but actually complicated problem of timezones, the importance of clear documentation for programmers, handling breaking changes and upgrading legacy systems, and the need for improved communication skills among developers.
Defending the realm: Trust and safety at Stack Overflow
In this special episode, Ryan is joined by our Senior VP of Communities, Philippe Beaudette, and the Trust and Safety team at Stack Overflow to discuss maintaining platform integrity and managing user safety, handling complex issues like harassment, and how their team balances transparency and privacy online.
Not just a vibe, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is really here
This year, we're not just collecting data; we're reflecting on the last year of questions, answers, hallucinations, job changes, tech stacks, memory allocations, models, systems and agents—together.
Research roadmap update, May 2025
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Behind the scenes: Community “management” at Stack Overflow
Community “management” at its core is supporting and enabling communities to manage themselves.
Community Products roadmap update, April 2025
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap