Questions tagged [the-loop]
The initial announcement blog article titled "The Loop", listing the preparation work and next steps planned by SE Inc.
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Feedback on The Loop: A Community Health Indicator
A community is a living organism. As we measure our pulse and blood pressure, we need to be able to monitor the community's health to understand if there is something that we should pay special ...
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Feedback on The Loop: Adding review guidance to the help center
I just posted to our blog about our recent review guidance work for the help center.
In the post, I go into detail about our motivations, thinking, and the work that took place to complete this ...
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Feedback for The Loop, September 2020: Summer Bridge to Tech for Kids
September’s Loop Blog post was just published: Summer Bridge to Tech for Kids. In this post, we go over the Summer Bridge program that we got to be a part of! The purpose of the program is to expose ...
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Feedback for The Loop, August 2020: Community-a-thon recap
In this month’s “The Loop” blog post, we did a deep dive and recapped our Community-a-thon event from our Q2 roadmap.
I know that the Community has been eager to hear about how the event went. We ...
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Feedback for The Loop - June 2020: Defining the Stack Community
June’s “The Loop” blog post was just posted: Defining the Stack Community. In this post, I attempt to define the term “Community” as it is used on our Public Platform. My overall suggestion can be ...
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"The Loop May 2020" contains inaccessible image with no transcription [duplicate]
In the latest blog post, The Loop, May 2020: Dark Mode, there's an image directly after the first line. It contains a chart and looks like it contains useful information, which is nice.
However, if ...
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Feedback for The Loop - May 2020
May’s “The Loop” blog post was just posted, you can read it here. A popular response last month to our post about how we receive, prioritize and implement feedback was a question around how this ...
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This month’s “The Loop” is all about how we utilize feedback
One thing we’ve discussed a lot in the past here on Meta and at Stack Overflow is how we receive, prioritize and implement feedback. A project that we announced in Q1 this year was identifying and ...
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Feedback for The Loop: March 2020
Sara Chipps (our Director of Product, Community) just posted to our blog for The Loop: March 2020. The post gives some context behind some of the breakdowns in communication and interaction between ...
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What are the plans for the future usage of meta sites by the company?
Recently, it was announced that the meta sites would be decreased in their importance, in favor of other "communication loops" implemented by SO. I wrote a request to change that at Please consider ...
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What about the community is "toxic" to new users?
In Chapter #2 of The Loop, the following graph is being shown:
The blog post states the following as explanation for what it defines as "unwelcoming":
Unwelcoming community (10.6% of responses):...
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Can we have the dataset for the loop #2?
Independent verification is a pillar of the scientific method, partly for sanity-checking and also because (and I've mentioned this multiple times before) both the cohorts used for the loop and the ...
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Are any of the "community members" SE Inc. is talking to ... around here?
The latest podcast mentions again that there are "community members" that get to talk to SE Inc., for example via streaming during the SE Inc. "come together" in Austin lately. Also the "post loop" ...
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What meta information is gathered during "the loop" survey hosted by SurveyMonkey?
One aspect that I completely missed when taking "the loop" some weeks ago: the corresponding service (SurveyMonkey) does use cookies to track various pieces of information.
That could be IP ...
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What is the difference between Stack Exchange users and customers?
A quote from the blog post about The Loop stated:
As our community has grown, our research needs have become more complex. With 50 million people coming to the site every month – all with unique ...