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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
Make it easy to find solutions to technical problems on a searchable platform where knowledge is always discoverable.
With the built-in search functionality being as broken as it is, we often defer to ...
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Coming Soon: Stack Overflow For Teams!
When Stack Overflow is used as a work tool, will there be work–life balance related features?
I understand teams will be on the same site as Stack Overflow, probably sharing the same inbox - but if ...
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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
I'd like to see a robust offering of communication channels (E-Mail, Slack, whatever else kids use these days) for notifications, so a team's use of the product doesn't ebb away because nobody goes ...
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What’s Happening With Channels?
Why is this tied to Stack Overflow?
Surely the scope for Channels is much wider than just programming Q&A even for businesses in the software industry.
I understand that "Stack Overflow" is seen ...
ChrisFMod
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Why does my Stack Overflow for Teams URL start with a /c/?
But if we're picking an arbitrary letter, wouldn't we default to x–the coolest letter?
can categorically confirm character "c" completes candidate criteria concerning coolness; case closed, casually
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Testing GitHub Oneboxes for Stack Overflow for Teams
status-good-point I'll address the guidance with the community team
This is amazing, for teams! Actually, it's probably good for Stack Overflow but conflicts with guidance we provide the community. ...
AndyMod
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Fist Bumps and Teams: What's going on with this ad?
Thanks for your feedback. Elaine here on the marketing team at Stack Overflow.
I agree with you that this ad is confusing on all the points you mentioned.
The fistbump and plus sign were meant to ...
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Why does my Stack Overflow for Teams URL start with a /c/?
"c" stands for channels. In the introductory post they were called as channels:
Channels are a means for organizations to provide a quiet space for their engineering teams to collaborate pretty ...
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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
I'm concerned about accidental posts. What happens when someone thinks they are in a private channel but accidentally posts confidential information to SO? I feel like that may happen more frequently. ...
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What’s Happening With Channels?
We would love to subscribe to the alpha, but there some questions that need to be cleared up before we would commit to put our knowledge (and thus quite some time) into SOC.
Points here are from the ...
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Why is "Stack Overflow for Teams" sending out emails paying for reviews on a service?
I don't think this is that bad. They aren't saying the review has to be positive. I think that most people who leave online reviews have either had a very positive or very negative experience, so ...
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Why do I see this annoying Teams banner?
At the very minimum SO should not autoplay the animation that cycles through the different quotes. Animated ads are really a no go
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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
One feature that comes to mind that Channels should probably have right from the start is uploading documents. Any internal knowledge base will likely have the need to store some of those.
More ...
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Coming Soon: Stack Overflow For Teams!
How distinct from Stack Overflow main will Stack Overflow For Teams be? How much integration is there, if any? In particular:
Are accounts linked between Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow For Teams? ...
RobMod
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Can I use Stack Overflow for Teams for non-programming questions?
Yes. I'm member of two Teams, one for ♦ moderators and another one for the spam-fighting organization Charcoal. Programming questions are non-existent on the former and a rare bird on the latter; it's ...
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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
Let's say we try the beta for three months, and then decided that – for whatever reason – this isn't for us. Would we be able to easily export all of our data in a readable format so we can put it ...
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Why can't we create a team using a Gmail address?
raises hand
You can probably blame me for this one, actually...
A team I work with, Charcoal, were alpha testers for Teams. When we got alpha access, we set about trying to break it; in doing so, I ...
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How do we handle NDAs for Teams?
There are confidentiality/NDA provisions in the Terms of Service for Stack Overflow for Teams (specifically Sections 4 and 9).
So yes, we are absolutely contractually obligated not to just randomly ...
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Testing GitHub Oneboxes for Stack Overflow for Teams
status-completed Markdown
status-researching Truncation
1. Markdown
What's the likelihood of supporting (at least to some extent) markup in the snippets? Compare the readability of these two:
I ...
RobMod
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Why do I see this annoying Teams banner?
Usually I go to https://stackoverflow.com/questions in Incognito/Inprivate (because I like the incognito/inprivate windows) to get to questions that the main SO page (https://stackoverflow.com/) doesn'...
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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
What does moderation look like in a channel? Does the administrator for a channel appoint moderators, or is the administrator the only moderator?
Also, how do you bootstrap privileges with this per-...
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What’s Happening With Channels?
What thought has been given to data exports? For example, one of my team leads asked what happens if we try the three months of alpha and decide we don't like it. Or, what if we go through the whole ...
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What is a public question on Stack Overflow?
tl;dr This is a change we made for channels, but it shouldn't have squeaked out on to the production site for non-alpha users. We are working on a fix.
Details: When you are a member of a channel it ...
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Your team memberships are leaked to other websites
We've applied a tweak that should mitigate against this, thanks.
when I am in fact a member of several teams (actual names redacted):
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Why can't I sign up for a team without a credit-card?
While there are several reasons that we require a credit card upfront, there is one primary driving decision. And that is that it's a, potentially temporary, deliberate constraint we put up to lessen ...
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Why do I see this annoying Teams banner?
There is an "X" there... it seems to be missing a "U", however. I think we have a stack for that...maybe the designers should consult it?
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Why do I see this annoying Teams banner?
I see the post is tagged with discussion. Let's talk about it: this new banner is taking up one fifth of my entire browser's viewport. That is, ignoring the recently added cookie notice banner and the ...
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Introducing: Channels - Q&A For Engineering Teams
We're also quite happy to answer any questions about technical details on how the system works, so please don't be shy about asking.
Ok!
One of the sticking points for spinning up a whole lot of ...
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Coming Soon: Stack Overflow For Teams!
Thinking from an organizational standpoint alone, and not knowing very much of what's on the other side of the fence, the one burning question I can think of is,
Does this pave the way for push-style ...
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Joining a Team forces my Stack Overflow identity to match my real name
So... I commented when this was posted, but it deserves a real response.
First of all, this is a legitimate concern, and not just on those rare Teams composed of various people from The Internet who ...
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