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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Stock_exchange" title="Stock exchange">Stock exchange</a>.</div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the network of collaborative Q&A sites. For the first site in the network, see <a href="Stack_Overflow" title="Stack Overflow">Stack Overflow</a>.</div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Super User" redirects here. For a user account with special privileges, see <a href="Superuser" title="Superuser">Superuser</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Stack Exchange Network</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="Knowledge_market" title="Knowledge market">Knowledge market</a></li><li><a href="Question_and_answer_website" class="mw-redirect" title="Question and answer website">Question and answer</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Prosus" title="Prosus">Prosus</a> N.V.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="Jeff_Atwood" title="Jeff Atwood">Jeff Atwood</a></li><li><a href="Joel_Spolsky" title="Joel Spolsky">Joel Spolsky</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://stackexchange.com/">stackexchange.com</a> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">September 2009 (2009-09)<a href="#cite_note-zdnet-1">[1]</a> (relaunched in January 2011)<a href="#cite_note-usatoday-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data">User contributions under <a href="Creative_Commons_license" title="Creative Commons license">CC BY-SA</a> 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0<a href="#cite_note-license_change-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-license_split_3.0_4.0-4">[4]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Stack Exchange is a network of <a href="Question-and-answer_website" class="mw-redirect" title="Question-and-answer website">question-and-answer</a> (Q&A) <a href="Website" title="Website">websites</a> on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The <a href="Reputation_system" title="Reputation system">reputation system</a> allows the sites to be self-moderating.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Currently, Stack Exchange is composed of 173 communities bringing in over 100 million unique visitors each month.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> As of February 2025 the three most active sites in the network are <a href="Stack_Overflow" title="Stack Overflow">Stack Overflow</a> (which focuses on <a href="Computer_programming" title="Computer programming">computer programming</a>), Mathematics, and Ask Ubuntu (focusing on the <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> distribution <a href="Ubuntu" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a>).<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a>

All sites in the network are modeled after the initial site Stack Overflow which was created by <a href="Jeff_Atwood" title="Jeff Atwood">Jeff Atwood</a> and <a href="Joel_Spolsky" title="Joel Spolsky">Joel Spolsky</a> in 2008. Further Q&A sites in the network are established, defined, and eventually – if found relevant – brought to creation by registered users through a special site named Area 51.<a href="#cite_note-Traffic-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Area51-9">[9]</a>

User contributions since May 2, 2018 are licensed under <a href="Creative_Commons_license" title="Creative Commons license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a>. Older content, contributed while the site used the <a href="Creative_Commons_license" title="Creative Commons license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported</a> license or the earlier Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Unported license, remains licensed under the license in force at the time it was contributed.<a href="#cite_note-license_split_3.0_4.0-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-license_change-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a>

In June 2021, <a href="Prosus" title="Prosus">Prosus</a> acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion, its first complete acquisition in the area of <a href="Educational_technology" title="Educational technology">educational technology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_and_growth">Founding and growth</h3></div>

In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created <a href="Stack_Overflow" title="Stack Overflow">Stack Overflow</a>, a question-and-answer website for <a href="Computer_programming" title="Computer programming">computer programming</a> questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum <a href="Experts-Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Experts-Exchange">Experts-Exchange</a>.<a href="#cite_note-rww-perez-12">[12]</a> In 2009, they started additional sites based on the Stack Overflow model: Server Fault for questions related to <a href="System_administrator" title="System administrator">system administration</a> and Super User for questions from computer <a href="Power_user" title="Power user">power users</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

In September 2009, Spolsky's company, <a href="Fog_Creek_Software" class="mw-redirect" title="Fog Creek Software">Fog Creek Software</a>, released a <a href="Software_testing#Beta_testing" title="Software testing">beta</a> version of the Stack Exchange 1.0 platform<a href="#cite_note-zdnet-1">[1]</a> as a way for third parties to create their own communities based on the software behind Stack Overflow, with monthly fees.<a href="#cite_note-stackexchange1-14">[14]</a> This <a href="White-label_product" title="White-label product">white label service</a> was not successful, with few customers and slow growing communities.<a href="#cite_note-rww-2010-15">[15]</a>

In May 2010, Stack Overflow (as its own new company) raised US$6 million in <a href="Venture_capital" title="Venture capital">venture capital</a> from <a href="Union_Square_Ventures" title="Union Square Ventures">Union Square Ventures</a> and other investors, and it switched its focus to developing new sites for answering questions on specific subjects,<a href="#cite_note-rww-2010-15">[15]</a> Stack Exchange 2.0. Users vote on new site topics in a staging area called Area 51, where algorithms determine which suggested site topics have <a href="Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)" title="Critical mass (sociodynamics)">critical mass</a> and should be created.<a href="#cite_note-rww-perez-12">[12]</a> In November 2010, Stack Exchange site topics in <a href="Software_testing#Beta_testing" title="Software testing">"beta testing"</a> included physics, mathematics, and writing.<a href="#cite_note-atlantic-16">[16]</a> Stack Exchange publicly launched in January 2011 with 33 Web sites; it had 27 employees<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> and 1.5 million users at the time, and it included advertising.<a href="#cite_note-usatoday-2">[2]</a> At that time, it was compared to <a href="Quora" title="Quora">Quora</a>, founded in 2009, which similarly specializes in expert answers.<a href="#cite_note-usatoday-2">[2]</a> Other competing sites include <a href="WikiAnswers" class="mw-redirect" title="WikiAnswers">WikiAnswers</a> and <a href="Yahoo!_Answers" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Answers">Yahoo! Answers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a>

In February 2011, Stack Overflow released an associated job board called Careers 2.0, charging fees to recruiters for access, which later re-branded to Stack Overflow Careers.<a href="#cite_note-cnet-19">[19]</a> In March 2011, Stack Overflow raised US$12 million in additional venture funding, and the company renamed itself to Stack Exchange, Inc.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> It is based in <a href="Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In February 2012, Atwood left the company.<a href="#cite_note-wired-atwood-22">[22]</a>

On April 18, 2013 <a href="CipherCloud" title="CipherCloud">CipherCloud</a> issued <a href="Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act" title="Digital Millennium Copyright Act">Digital Millennium Copyright Act</a> (DMCA) takedown notices in an attempt to block discussion of possible weaknesses of their encryption algorithm.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The Stack Exchange Crypto group discussion on the algorithm was censored, but it was later restored without pictures.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a>

As of September 2015, "Stack Exchange" no longer refers to the company, only the network of question-and-answer websites. Instead, the company is now referred to as Stack Overflow.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a>

In 2016, Stack Exchange added a variety of new sites which pushed the boundaries of the typical question-and-answer site.<a href="#cite_note-YearInReview2016-27">[27]</a> For example, Puzzling offers a platform for users who already know the answer to questions to challenge their peers to solve the problems unlike traditional Q–A sites where the poster does not know the answer.<a href="#cite_note-YearInReview2016-27">[27]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Declining_relationship_between_users_and_company">Declining relationship between users and company</h3></div>

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In 2016, Stack Exchange announced the second iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project, in which they attempt to implement specific important features requested by the community to meet a distinct high-priority set of goals. After users enthusiastically responded with feature ideas, they complained that there was insufficient action on the company's part.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a>

In October 2018, the company removed its Interpersonal Skills site from the Hot Network Questions list after a complaint on Twitter, and an employee (who was part of the <a href="Site_Reliability_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Site Reliability Engineering">SRE</a> team, which was not community-facing) posted tweets attacking moderators.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Late_2019_controversies">Late 2019 controversies</h4></div>

To start, in June 2019, more advertisements were added causing a large dispute.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> On September 27, 2019, a moderator of multiple Stack Exchange sites, specifically Monica Cellio, was dismissed from her moderator position, allegedly connected to behavior associated with upcoming changes to the Code of Conduct (CoC) relating to <a href="Preferred_gender_pronoun" title="Preferred gender pronoun">gender pronouns</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> Many other moderators resigned or suspended their moderator activity in response to the dismissal. The company responded with two very poorly received messages which have since been deleted,<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> and by a slightly less negatively-received apology several days later.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> In December 2019, the company posted a message, stating that they and the moderator had come to an agreement and expressing regret for any damage to her reputation.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Nevertheless, this, plus the sudden departure of multiple community managers (Stack Exchange employees who interact with the community), led to an erosion of trust between the community and the company—convincing many of the site's most prolific users, including many community-elected moderators and a community manager, to depart within the next few months.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2019–2020_licensing_change_announcements">2019–2020 licensing change announcements</h4></div>

On September 2, 2019, the terms of service (and the footer of every page served) changed to referencing the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike" (CC BY-SA) license's 4.0 version instead of its 3.0 version.<a href="#cite_note-license_change-3">[3]</a> Users were puzzled as to how Stack Overflow acquired the rights for this relicensing of their past contributions,<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> with some users explicitly stating that they did not intend their contributions to be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Users were concerned that, if the relicensing was found to be a breach of CC BY-SA 3.0, Stack Exchange would have made itself unable to distribute the content under any CC BY-SA license (and that the footer's license statement could be erroneous), and would have to rely on its "perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store" the content instead.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> On September 27, an official Stack Exchange reply stated it had been an "important step", but declined to discuss with the community the legal basis for the relicensing.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a>

In March 2020, a post announced that content contributed before May 2, 2018 was available under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.<a href="#cite_note-license_split_3.0_4.0-4">[4]</a> In the ensuing discussion, several users asked about the similar situation in August 2010, when Stack Exchange switched from accepting CC BY-SA 2.5 contributions to 3.0. A representative of the corporation noted "we are looking [...] to show v2.5 for posts predating this change but cannot commit to it yet". Some users were unconvinced that the September 2019 announcement was not a breach of CC BY-SA 3.0 that would have caused its termination, and some answers were not placated by the dateline chosen.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> In the ensuing discussion, Stack Overflow staff declined to comment.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="June–August_2023_moderation_strike">June–August 2023 moderation strike</h4></div>

In mid-2023, Stack Exchange made several changes regarding its policies around content generated by <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> which resulted in a strike of a portion of its volunteer moderators. The protest centered around a policy posted to moderators on May 29 stating that the use of AI-detection tools were not permitted to be used as part of moderation. In a statement, Stack Exchange confirmed that 11% of moderators had ceased content moderation in response to this policy.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> This would grow to more than 23% of all moderators on the network by June 22, including more than 70% of all Stack Overflow moderators.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a>

The strike began with a post to Meta Stack Exchange, which raised concerns regarding the quality and accuracy of AI-generated content, and the lack of transparency from Stack Exchange surrounding this policy change.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Moderators also stated that the version of the policy released to the public differed from the version they had received on the moderator-only forum, notably in that the public version did not include language requiring that moderators stop restricting all AI content.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a>

Negotiations between Stack Exchange and moderators resulted in new policies allowing moderators to remove AI content when there is a strong indicator of GPT usage, and a commitment from the site to continue to provide data and API access. At the conclusion of negotiations, the strike ended on August 2, 2023.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Site_features">Site features</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reputation_and_badges">Reputation and badges</h3></div>

The primary purpose of each Stack Exchange site is to enable users to post questions and answer them.<a href="#cite_note-atlantic-16">[16]</a> Users can vote on both answers and questions, and through this process users earn reputation points, a form of <a href="Gamification" title="Gamification">gamification</a>.<a href="#cite_note-wired-atwood-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-soFAQ-52">[52]</a> This voting system was compared to <a href="Digg" title="Digg">Digg</a> when the Stack Exchange platform was first released.<a href="#cite_note-stackexchange1-14">[14]</a> Users receive privileges by collecting reputation points, ranging from the ability to vote and comment on questions and answers to the ability to moderate many aspects of the site.<a href="#cite_note-soFAQ-52">[52]</a> Due to the prominence of Stack Exchange profiles in web search results and the Stack Overflow Careers job board, users may have reason to <a href="Gaming_the_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaming the system">game the system</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cnet-19">[19]</a> Along with posting questions and answers, users can add comments to them and edit text written by others.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Each Stack Exchange site has a "meta" section where users can settle disputes, in the style of <a href="MetaFilter" title="MetaFilter">MetaFilter</a>'s "MetaTalk" forum, because the self-moderation system for questions and answers can lead to significant arguments.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a>

Badges are awarded for asking and answering, participating in meta, and for moderating the site. There are bronze, silver and gold badges and appear on users' profile pages as well as their posts.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moderators_and_election_process">Moderators and election process</h3></div>

Moderators are responsible for managing the site, such as by following up on flagged posts, locking and protecting posts, suspending users, and deleting the worst posts (including misinformation) on the site. According to the Stack Exchange philosophy, they should be minimally involved in the site. They are also expected to lead by example, as well as to show respect to other users.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a>

To become a moderator, users have to participate in an election. Elections are called as needed by the Stack Exchange Community Team for a designated number of seats. Users must first nominate themselves and have at least 300 reputation (3,000 on Stack Overflow and 1,000 on Math Stack Exchange), while also being in good standing, such as not having been suspended during the past year. Aside from introducing themselves and explaining why they would be a good moderator, users must also answer questions written by the community. Nominations can be withdrawn at any time.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a>

After this, users vote on the candidates in a primary, where the vote tally is made public. The top 10 nominees advance to the election stage, where any user with at least 150 reputation is allowed to vote. A ranked-choice voting system is used where users can rank all the candidates if they wish. Votes are tallied using the Meek STV method (single transferable vote) which allows fractional parts of a vote to be counted.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bounties">Bounties</h3></div>

Stack Exchange allows users to donate some of their reputation to help questions receive answers or better answers, as well as to incentivize users to answer. This is called a 'bounty' and can be applied on questions 48 hours after being asked, lasting for 7 days plus a grace period of 24 hours. The minimum bounty is set at 50 reputation, except if the user has already answered the question or has offered a previous bounty on the question. Bounties cannot be cancelled, and reputation cannot be refunded from a bounty, even if the question did not receive an answer.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technologies_used">Technologies used</h2></div>

Stack Exchange uses <a href="Internet_Information_Services" title="Internet Information Services">IIS</a>, <a href="Microsoft_SQL_Server" title="Microsoft SQL Server">SQL Server</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Technologies-62">[62]</a> and the <a href="ASP.NET" title="ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> framework,<a href="#cite_note-Technologies-62">[62]</a> all from a single code base for every Stack Exchange site (except Area 51, which runs off a fork of the Stack Overflow code base).<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> Blogs formerly used <a href="WordPress" title="WordPress">WordPress</a>, but they have been discontinued.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> The team also uses <a href="Redis" title="Redis">Redis</a>, <a href="HAProxy" title="HAProxy">HAProxy</a> and <a href="Elasticsearch" title="Elasticsearch">Elasticsearch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Technologies-62">[62]</a>

Stack Exchange tries to stay up to date with the newest technologies from <a href="Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>, usually using the latest releases of any given framework. The code is primarily written in C# ASP.NET MVC using the <a href="ASP.NET_Razor" title="ASP.NET Razor">Razor View Engine</a>. The preferred <a href="Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a> is <a href="Microsoft_Visual_Studio" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Visual Studio">Visual Studio</a> and the data layers uses <a href="Dapper_ORM" title="Dapper ORM">Dapper</a> for data access.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a>

The site makes use of <a href="URL_slug" class="mw-redirect" title="URL slug">URL slugs</a> in addition to numeric <a href="Identifier" title="Identifier">identifiers</a> for question URLs.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Site_creation_process">Site creation process</h2></div>

Every new site created in the Stack Exchange Network goes through a detailed review process on a site called Area 51, that is consisting of four steps:<a href="#cite_note-Area51-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-sitereview-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a>

<ul><li>Definition: A public proposal must be drafted and posted so that any member of the community can discuss the proposal and vote on it. This allows a collaborative proposal to emerge over time. The proposal must address these four key issues

<ol><li>the topic of the site</li>

<li>the targeted audience</li>

<li>forty exemplary questions, upvoted at least 10 times from the community</li>

<li>60 followers from the community</li></ol></li>

<li>Commitment: First, 200 users interested in the new site are asked to formally commit and support the site by actively participating and contributing to it by asking or answering 10 questions during the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FIRDR">FIRDR</a> six months of the public beta. Second, 100 users interested in the new site that have committed with over 200 reputation on another site on the network. Finally, it requires a commitment score of 500, which uses the following formula:<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a>

<ol><li><code>PrelimScore = SUM(Reputation >= 200 ? 0.233 * ln(Reputation-101) - 0.75 : 0) + 1.5</code></li>

<li><code>UserScore = PrelimScore * 0.9 ^ (DAYS / 180)</code></li></ol></li>

<li>Beta: A live test version of this site is tested out, in two steps.

<ol><li>Private Beta: If the concept receives 100% commitment (reaches the requirements listed above), the site enters the private beta phase, where committed members begin actively using the site and publicizing it. It must remain for at least 35 days (or 5 weeks).</li>

<li>Public Beta: The site is open to the public for a long period. This allows the creators to ensure that the site reaches critical mass before it is fully launched. It much remain for at least 180 days (or 6 months) of public beta, and 215 total days of beta (31 weeks).</li></ol></li>

<li>Graduation: If the site has at least 1000 open questions, and 70% of questions or more have at least 1 upvoted answer, it is granted a "graduation" and fully launched.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_users">Notable users</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nobel_Prize_winners">Nobel Prize winners</h3></div>

<ul><li><a href="Gerard_'t_Hooft" title="Gerard 't Hooft">Gerard 't Hooft</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fields_Medal_winners">Fields Medal winners</h3></div>

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<ul><li><a href="Peter_Scholze" title="Peter Scholze">Peter Scholze</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> (2018)</li>

<li><a href="Martin_Hairer" title="Martin Hairer">Martin Hairer</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> (2014)</li>

<li><a href="Terence_Tao" title="Terence Tao">Terence Tao</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> (2006)</li>

<li><a href="Tim_Gowers" class="mw-redirect" title="Tim Gowers">Tim Gowers</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Curtis_McMullen" class="mw-redirect" title="Curtis McMullen">Curtis McMullen</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Richard_Borcherds" title="Richard Borcherds">Richard Borcherds</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Edward_Witten" title="Edward Witten">Edward Witten</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> (1990)</li>

<li><a href="Vaughan_Jones" title="Vaughan Jones">Vaughan Jones</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> (1990)</li>

<li><a href="Michael_Freedman" title="Michael Freedman">Michael Freedman</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="William_Thurston" title="William Thurston">William Thurston</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> (1982)</li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founders">Founders</h3></div>

<ul><li><a href="Joel_Spolsky" title="Joel Spolsky">Joel Spolsky</a> (co-founder of <a href="Stack_Overflow" title="Stack Overflow">Stack Overflow</a>)<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeff_Atwood" title="Jeff Atwood">Jeff Atwood</a> (co-founder of Stack Overflow)<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a></li>

<li><a href="Ravi_Vakil" title="Ravi Vakil">Ravi Vakil</a> (co-founder of <a href="MathOverflow" title="MathOverflow">MathOverflow</a>)<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_notable_scientists_and_mathematicians">Other notable scientists and mathematicians</h3></div>

<ul><li><a href="Scott_Aaronson" title="Scott Aaronson">Scott Aaronson</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a></li>

<li><a href="Carlo_Beenakker" title="Carlo Beenakker">Carlo Beenakker</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a></li>

<li><a href="Andreas_Blass" title="Andreas Blass">Andreas Blass</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Bryant_(mathematician)" title="Robert Bryant (mathematician)">Robert Bryant</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a></li>

<li><a href="Noam_Elkies" title="Noam Elkies">Noam Elkies</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a></li>

<li><a href="Matthew_Emerton" title="Matthew Emerton">Matthew Emerton</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Eppstein" title="David Eppstein">David Eppstein</a><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> (inventor of <a href="Eppstein's_algorithm" class="mw-redirect" title="Eppstein's algorithm">Eppstein's algorithm</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Alexandre_Eremenko" title="Alexandre Eremenko">Alexandre Eremenko</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a></li>

<li><a href="Joel_David_Hamkins" title="Joel David Hamkins">Joel David Hamkins</a> (top user on <a href="MathOverflow" title="MathOverflow">MathOverflow</a>)<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a></li>

<li><a href="James_E._Humphreys" title="James E. Humphreys">James E. Humphreys</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a></li>

<li><a href="Gil_Kalai" title="Gil Kalai">Gil Kalai</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a></li>

<li><a href="Anna_Krylov" title="Anna Krylov">Anna Krylov</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a></li>

<li><a href="Greg_Kuperberg" title="Greg Kuperberg">Greg Kuperberg</a><a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></li>

<li><a href="Tim_Peters_(software_engineer)" title="Tim Peters (software engineer)">Tim Peters (software engineer)</a> (inventor of <a href="Timsort" title="Timsort">Timsort</a>)<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_O'Rourke_(professor)" title="Joseph O'Rourke (professor)">Joseph O'Rourke</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a></li>

<li><a href="Igor_Rivin" title="Igor Rivin">Igor Rivin</a><a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a></li>

<li><a href="Guido_van_Rossum" title="Guido van Rossum">Guido van Rossum</a> (creator of <a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>)<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a></li>

<li><a href="Anders_Sandberg" title="Anders Sandberg">Anders Sandberg</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeffrey_Shallit" title="Jeffrey Shallit">Jeffrey Shallit</a> (computer scientist with <a href="Erdos_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Erdos number">Erdos number</a> of one)<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a></li>

<li><a href="Peter_Shor" title="Peter Shor">Peter Shor</a> (inventor of <a href="Shor's_algorithm" title="Shor's algorithm">Shor's algorithm</a>)<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a></li>

<li><a href="Michael_Shulman_(mathematician)" title="Michael Shulman (mathematician)">Michael Shulman</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="MathOverflow" title="MathOverflow">MathOverflow</a></li>

<li><a href="Minimal_reproducible_example" title="Minimal reproducible example">Minimal reproducible example</a></li>

<li><a href="PhysicsOverflow" title="PhysicsOverflow">PhysicsOverflow</a></li>

<li><a href="Q%26A_software" class="mw-redirect" title="Q&A software">Q&A software</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

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<ul><li><a href="FogBugz" title="FogBugz">FogBugz</a> (acquired by DevFactory)</li>

<li><a href="CityDesk" class="mw-redirect" title="CityDesk">CityDesk</a> (discontinued)</li></ul>

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<ul><li> (sold to <a href="Prosus" title="Prosus">Prosus</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Trello" title="Trello">Trello</a> (sold to <a href="Atlassian" title="Atlassian">Atlassian</a>)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Joel_Spolsky" title="Joel Spolsky">Joel Spolsky</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeff_Atwood" title="Jeff Atwood">Jeff Atwood</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="Fastly" title="Fastly">Fastly</a> (since 2022)</li></ul>

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