History of StackOverflow

Last update Mar. 6^th 2011 5:53:36 PM

Creation date Feb. 21^st 2011 2:00:43 PM

Chris Forman on Mar. 6^th 2011 5:53:36 PM
Follow members
No People aren't the focus of the sites, the questions and answers are.
Chris Forman on Mar. 6^th 2011 5:43:26 PM
Description
This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's 100% free, no registration required. There are other sites for other topics, such as Photography, DIY, Cooking, Gaming etc.. See http://stackexchange.com for a full list of the current sites.
Who uses the site?
Developers, programmers, experts and enthusiasts. Other site have experts and enthusiasts in their domain.
Topics
Technical programming issues. Issues relevant to the domain for the other sites in the network.
Revert modifications
Yes Edits can be rolled back to any previous version by anyone with edit rights.
Chris Forman on Mar. 6^th 2011 5:37:16 PM
Advertisements
Yes Reduced for users with more than 200 rep
Chris Forman on Mar. 6^th 2011 5:35:40 PM
Follow questions
Yes Via RSS feeds on each question
Ability to edit question (modify)
Yes Anybody can suggest edits (subject to approval). Users with 2K+ rep can make edits straight away.
Email notifications
Yes Tick the box at the bottom of your question.
Saves drafts of posts
Yes A single draft of a question or answer is saved
Real-time updating
Yes
Volunteer moderators
Yes Voted on by the rest of the community
Summary
Yes Summary appears at tooltip
Follow topics
Yes via RSS feeds on tags
Ability to suggest edits to answers
Yes Anybody can suggest edits (subject to approval). Users with 2K+ rep can make edits straight away.
Seralo on Feb. 21^st 2011 11:47:20 PM
Image
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 11:42:32 PM
Editor
Public
Viewer
Public
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 11:33:04 PM
Content license / Terms
Open data: CC-by-SA license (free to Remix, to reuse with attribution link)
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 11:25:53 PM
Revert modifications
No
Ratings for question
Yes up or down
Saves drafts of posts
No
Email notifications
No
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 11:10:00 PM
Follow questions
No
Follow topics
No
Follow members
No
Real-time updating
No
Ability to edit question (modify)
No
Ability to suggest edits to answers
No
Search box autocompletes
No
Content license / Terms
open data: CC-by-SA license (free to Remix, to reuse with attribution link)
Post a Message to Your Followers
No
Related video
No
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 10:30:55 PM
Tag assignments
Yes
Ratings for comments
Yes up or down
Related questions
Yes
Statistics
Yes asked, viewed, latest activity
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 9:32:13 PM
User reputation system
Yes scores, badges
Topics
Technical programming issues
Who uses the site?
Developers, programmers, experts
Advertisements
Yes
Technology platform used for other sites
Yes http://stackexchange.com/
Identity system
Google, Yahoo, Myopenid, Facebook, AOL, Blogger, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Verisign, Openid, ClaimID, ClickPass, Google Profile, Stackoverflow account.
Description
This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's 100% free, no registration required.
Time-boxed conversations
No
Summary
No
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 2:05:51 PM
Website
http://stackoverflow.com/
Vanina on Feb. 21^st 2011 2:00:43 PM
Mode
Item
Name
StackOverflow
Viewer
Unlisted
Editor
Vanina
Category
Pratical

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