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13 questions linked to/from It's official! Programmers is now Software Engineering Stack Exchange
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Change the name of Programmers to something that more accurately reflects the site scope? [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to the discussion on renaming the site to match its FAQ, or changing the FAQ to match the site name.
That discussion is one of the highest voted questions on here, so this ...
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
Four years ago we asked for a name change, which was rejected by SE because there was no evidence to support the claim it was causing user confusion, and there were other things the site should focus ...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
From Ana, a Stack Exchange Community Manager in the previous question about changing the site name:
It took us a good while, but the Community Team has circled up and
here's where we stand on your ...
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Site Design, round 2 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New Design Launched
First, I want to thank you for your valuable feedback for the first design concept. Programmers.SE is a site about people and conceptual design more than ...
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
After a discussion today (July 22nd) with Ana and Shog9, we've made some more progress toward a new site name and scope. You can check out the transcript for the full details, but we talked about the ...
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Changing this site from the increasingly anachronistic "Programmers" to the more fitting "Software Engineering" has been... A long road. So far, we've discussed...
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Renaming the site to match its FAQ or changing the FAQ to match the site name?
This site is called programmers.stackexchange, while the FAQ states that this site is about "conceptual questions about software development".
Since a large number of people never read the FAQ, or ...
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Are Career Advice questions useful to anyone except the poster? [duplicate]
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-advice
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-guidance
There seem to be a fair number of "should ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election Results
Programmers' third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and ...
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We have a scope problem with Software Engineering's tagline
Visitors to our site are taking the words "who care about delivering software responsibly" in our tagline as evidence of question topicality. Witness:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/...
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New Site Name and Help Center: Phase I Complete
Previous Discussion: Follow-Up 3: New Site Name and Help Center Discussions
After approval from Ana, I published the discussed updates to the Help Center's /help/on-topic page and the site's /tour. ...
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How to deal with Accepted Answers that are actually dangerous to those that might use it?
This accepted answer it not just factually and technically incorrect on many levels, it is actually passively malicious in that it claims it is secure with arguments that are logically incorrect but ...
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A history of question migration in tables and a graph
[Note: Most of this post was written before the name change and I haven't changed to Software Engineering. I think that's appropriate, since I'm looking backward to when this site was Programmers.]
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