Questions tagged [technology]
Use this tag when asking about how the functionality within the Stack Exchange network is built or how it works. Add other tags to narrow down which part of the technical implementation your question is about.
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Which engine does Stack Overflow use to generate edit history? [duplicate]
What is the engine that Stack Overflow uses for the comparison of the two question versions? Below is an example from Math Stack Exchange:
I'd like to use a similar solution for my website, but ...
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Why did posting once end up with two posts? [duplicate]
I posted a question on a stack exchange site. It ended up with two identical posts.
After typing the post in the edit box, I don't think I hit the post button twice.
Even if I hit the post button ...
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What search engine software does Area 51 use?
I was on the Area 51 Stack Exchange site and used the search bar. I was confused as to why it was working so quickly and that's when I realized it was using JavaScript.
Eventually I found that you can ...
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Could a site be created that does not collect PII? [duplicate]
Last fall, Tim Post ♦ mentioned that the primary reason that the accounts of underage users are deleted on sight is that there are laws against holding a minor's Personally Identifiable Information (...
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Why did the Stack Overflow blog switch back to WordPress from Jekyll? [duplicate]
Why did the Stack Overflow blog switch back to WordPress from Jekyll again? It was originally on WordPress, then switched to Jekyll for some time, and now it's been switched back.
This screenshot ...
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What jQuery versions are used by SE sites?
This is probably an XY problem, but I am focusing on my solution.
It's known that China has blocked off all of Google, including ajax.googleapis.com where SE loads jQuery library. For some reasons, I ...
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The road to .NET Core - please help Stack Exchange test EF Core!
Here at Stack Overflow we're migrating many things to .NET Core. Along the way we have to swap out parts that existed in the old .NET world but don't in the new.
Now that we've safely diverged our ...
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What is the caching architecture of Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Having a good understanding of how expensive DB queries are and the importance of caching static data, I can't understand how the question pages on these sites run so quickly.
We have a question ...
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Does StackExchange still store its data in a denormalised format, then normalise when needed?
I read an article on the Trello tech stack, under the section "MongoDB", it states the following:
[...] One of the coolest and most performance-obsessed teams we know is our
next-door ...
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Which tools and libraries are used for testing by StackOverflow developers? [duplicate]
Here you can find details about the software and hardware on which the site is built.
I am wondering do developers write any automation tests (unit/functional/scenario) and what kind of tools/...
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Blogpost on what Stack Exchange has changed in its backend?
I'm very anxious to see what all technologies that SE has changed underneath. As the site seems very clean UI (front-end) and superfast (back-end?) now compared to yesterday?
Is there a blogpost about ...
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Is OK to write a comment on my question for asking to someone which may have an answer?
I put a tag on my question and nobody seems to give an appropriate answer even with a bounty, and if I find a user with a very high reputation level and he describe himself as a nerd about that ...
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Is Stack Exchange experimenting with KaTeX? [duplicate]
KaTeX is a new TeX-to-web renderer that is supposed to be faster and more lightweight than MathJax.
Normally, I would just dismiss it as an interesting technology that might not be ready for ...
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What does Stack Overflow use for its community wiki edits comparison feature?
I am referring to this feature:
Note how Stack Overflow shows which bits have been deleted, and which parts have been added (shown in red and green).
Basically, I was wondering if Stack Overflow used ...
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What library or framework does the remaining character counts for comments?
Based on Which tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network?
What does Stack Exchange use to calculate the remaining character counts for comments? Do they use jquery, ...
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