Questions tagged [testing]
For questions about testing various features of Stack Exchange, including A/B tests by the company.
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
Update April 3rd, 2024
We have posted an update on the status of this experiment on MSO. Please leave any feedback, questions, or critiques on that post.
TL;DR: We are interested in finding 2-3 Stack ...
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Some markup is formatted weird on stackoverflow.com [closed]
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This is my first piece of text. This is my first piece of text. This is my first piece of text. This is my first piece of text. This is my first piece of text. This is my first piece of ...
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Is there a "test" chat room? [duplicate]
I'm looking into a possible bug in the SE chat system. To do this, I need to be able to send a bunch (10+) of chat messages. I don't want to bother anyone. Is there already a "test" chat ...
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Announcing a design experiment re: placement of "Ask question" button
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Because the current location of the “Ask question” button is inconsistent, we want to move it. But first, we’re testing the proposed new location to ensure we don’t negatively impact question ...
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Dedicated board | place for Microsoft exam discussion [duplicate]
I know that according to the NDA which you accept before taking the exam it is prohibited to discuss, reveal, share etc but the question is very hot - let's suppose I've faced a bunch of questions ...
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How is question quality measured in A/B tests?
As sites grow, there's a noticeable increase in community unhappiness with question quality. Quite a bit of the problem is simply a matter of scale, but sites sometimes optimize for extremes. Bad ...
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We're Formalizing How We Announce Tests A Bit
We're going to be running a whole lot of tests in the near future (mostly on Stack Overflow) and we'd like to take a moment to set everyone's expectations consistently when it comes to how, what, when ...
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Please consider testing (on select sites) the removal of annoying restrictions like the title word filter and 6-character edit minimum
This question and its comments and answers inspired me to write this post.
There are lots of little rules and restrictions in place that can catch users by surprise and prove to be very annoying, ...
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Different notices for the unanswered question
I posted a question in MSO about adding style to the Can you help? text. This text will appear for those posts that don't have any answer yet, like:
Can you help? Stack Overflow depends on everyone ...
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Can a site have an A/B test?
Health SE has an discussion about the name. In short, most of the mods agree that Health is not a good name, but there is no consensus for the replacement. In my opinion, there is no fact-based but ...
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Exposing the existence of inbox emails to drive-by users
We're soon going to start split testing a new feature: adding a checkbox by the answer field that allows users to opt-in to receive unread inbox items via email.
To be clear:
This will roll out as a ...
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Is careers advertisement block being a-b tested?
Usually, my side bar careers block is orange, but on some occurrence it's blue ! Is stack exchange proceeding to a-b testing to see which color is the best ? Is it random ? Is it based on some ...
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Do "This was a test" edit approvals show when you fail? [duplicate]
I've seen a number of requested question edits and votes which were obviously bad, so I turned them down. I'll occasionally see, "This was only a test. You passed!"
My question is: Does StackOverflow ...
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How can we measure the cost of displaying comments?
As you can see from Jay's answer we have some internal disagreements about how much signal we lose from displaying comments and, more critically, how much hiding that signal would cost. I waved my ...
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How TDD-oriented is the SE team?
Stack Exchange is my role-model for application development. I've tried to learn as much as possible from the blog and podcasts, from thought process to design, architecture, convention, etc etc.
I'...
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