Timeline for Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (July 2024)
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| 17 hours ago | comment | added | Des StaffMod | @Andrew At the time of this post, a different solution was being considered that did not include product changes. The proposed solutions were presented to mods for feedback which led to the current solution, but this post (and the blogpost) was already published. I will plan on including the profile/data dump updates in the next post. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Andrew | Why weren't the changes to the data dump included in this post? | |
| Jul 22 at 17:15 | comment | added | Des StaffMod | @Zoe-Savethedatadump Onboarding is part of it. There is an activation strategy post in the works that will provide more detail. Some related projects you’ve seen already, in addition to sign up improvements, are the work around tags and personalizing the home page. | |
| Jul 22 at 17:11 | comment | added | Des StaffMod | @dan1st that’s correct, Staging Ground can be thought of as an activation strategy for a specific segment of new users - those who are here to ask a question. I didn’t draw that connection in the post for the sake of simplicity. | |
| Jul 19 at 18:45 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump | The previous initiative list had onboarding on it. Out of it, we got a signup thing, an abandoned 1-rep voting experiment, and onboarding for SG. Onboarding is back off the list again this time around. Does that mean we aren't getting any of the onboarding things a staff member looked into a month or two ago? | |
| Jul 19 at 15:03 | answer | added | Mark Schultheiss | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 17 at 4:46 | comment | added | dan1st | After listening to the last episode on the SO podcast on the Staging Ground, I think that user activation could also refer to first-time askers returning to the site and participate in some ways. | |
| Jul 14 at 8:28 | comment | added | dan1st | @FedericoPoloni I would interpret "user activation" as specific to new users (possibly ones without an account) while I would interpret "user engagement" to not make a difference between new and old users. | |
| Jul 14 at 8:15 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Surely "user engagement", possibly with some more descriptivce words added, is a better description than "user activation"? | |
| Jul 8 at 15:07 | answer | added | JRE | timeline score: 103 | |
| Jul 6 at 13:16 | answer | added | Resistance Is Futile | timeline score: 55 | |
| Jul 6 at 12:32 | answer | added | Chester Gillon | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 4 at 18:34 | answer | added | wizzwizz4 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 1 at 19:09 | answer | added | DesStaffMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 1 at 14:34 | answer | added | Spevacus | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jul 1 at 14:27 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | From the blog - but practically, passive users are not a bad thing. Its worth remembering that there's nothing wrong with the top of the funnel, and while large numbers probably make people happy, that those passive users fund what they need means when they don't they'll sign up cause of all those good experiences. I do hope we're not going to be nag/annoying them to sign up | |
| Jul 1 at 14:25 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | > User Activation – Improving new user success. The vast majority of visitors to Stack Overflow are passive content consumers. Developers get stuck, they search the problem across the web, and land on a Q&A pair that helps them get unstuck (rinse and repeat as many times as needed). | |
| Jul 1 at 14:12 | history | edited | Spevacus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 1 at 13:41 | comment | added | Rosie StaffMod | I linked to the Meta posts on Staging Ground and Community Asks Sprints. Similar to the post last Q, we'll add links to other Meta announcements and updates here as they come out. | |
| Jul 1 at 13:39 | history | edited | RosieStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 1 at 13:26 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @MadScientist it's in the linked blog post, here it's just the heads up and mini summary, which is fine. | |
| Jul 1 at 13:24 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | "User activation" is a bit vague to me, I'm not sure I want to be activated ;-)? Might be useful to clarify what this means specifically. | |
| Jul 1 at 13:21 | history | edited | DesStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 1 at 13:17 | history | edited | RosieStaffMod |
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| Jul 1 at 13:16 | history | asked | DesStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |