Stack Exchange has a very full featured, albeit currently read-only, API. You can view some of the nifty applications people have created with the Stack Exchange API in the app gallery on Stack Apps, or check out the winners of the Stack Exchange API contest we held last year.

We’re currently in the planning stages for Stack Exchange API 2.0. There’s a draft API 2.0 specification on Stack Apps, so head on over there and take a look if you want a voice in that process.

As a part of our research process leading up to 2.0, we analyzed usage statistics of the API to date. For the period  …

We’re pleased to announce that Stack Exchange is now an institutional member of the TeX Users Group.

The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a non-profit organization supporting the the TeX typesetting system community — or anyone generally interested in furthering the fields of typography and font design. It’s popular within many academic disciplines, several of which are represented in the Stack Exchange network.

TeX was originally popular as a tag on Stack Overflow and eventually grew into its own TeX Stack Exchange site through the Area 51 process. This community has actively contributed new packages back to the TeX community, and maintains a community blog. …

This week, Jeff & Joel are joined (in studio, no less) by David Fullerton, head of the NY Dev Department, and Jason Punyon, a developer here in the office.  Its a fast moving discussion covering all kinds of topics, like:

Stack Exchange 1.0 (which gave users wanting their own Q&A site the Stack Exchange software, without being official Stack sites) is touched on. Jeff discusses the clones that exist and their reason for existing.

Trello’s launch caused some kerfuffle on Web Apps.SE when general (and off-topic) help questions started being asked. In the larger sense, they discuss the necessity of applications and products to have their own unique help service. …

I want to say a word about why we felt it was so important to honor Steve Jobs with a special system-wide message on Stack Overflow, a site for programmers, as well as our Apple-specific site, Ask Different.

Remember, for a moment, the first Macintosh. A brilliant computer, but we programmers looked at it and said… wait! It’s not expandable! It has inadequate memory! You have to change the floppy disk every ten seconds! How on earth can you run Serious Programs on this thing? Even then, Steve didn’t give a hoot about your needs as nerdy computer geeks. He was trying to make a …

Our track record on email notifications has been mixed at best. Since early 2009, we’ve had some forms of email notification, including:

A checkbox under each question you own, asking if you want email notifications for that specific question.

A checkbox under each question you own, asking if you want email notifications for that specific question.

A long since removed “oh, you’ve been away for 7 days, so we will mail you any new comments and answers to your questions as a courtesy” feature. …