Hi everyone! I’m the math intern, and I thought I’d introduce myself by sharing a little something from what I’ve been doing. A little about me: I’m a moderator and frequent contributor at math.SE: In real life, I’m a rising senior at MIT. I have a math blog, Annoying Precision, which unfortunately is not very accessible to non-mathematicians (sorry!). I think using the internet to spread knowledge more effectively is great, so I’m a big fan of the Stack Exchange network. This summer, my job is to look at the Stack Exchange network’s data and see if I can find anything interesting.  …

Anytime you find yourself answering the same question over and over and over and over … blog post time.

This is that blog post.

This cycle has repeated itself on more sites than I can remember — When a new community approaches the end of their beta period, users start looking forward to graduation. So when that 90th day looms, anticipation starts to turn into speculation about whether the site is going to survive.

Does this site have a chance of succeeding? Is this site viable? Visits per day — should we be worried? At what point will this site grow out of the beta stage? What are the crit …

Jeff & Joel are joined this week by Jin Yang – our resident web/graphic designer here at Stack (the distinction between the two becomes a discussion point).  Once we get the proper picture of Jin in the chatroom, he relates everything from his background in design to how he ended up at Stack Exchange and our philosophy behind design.

Full topics this week include:

Jin refers to himself as a “web designer” as opposed to a “graphic designer” because of the type of work he focuses on. …

Have you noticed the new ads appearing on all of the Stack Exchange sites?

That’s right, despite a well-publicized aversion to email spam, we’ve added weekly newsletters to all Stack Exchange sites!

The site newsletters are meant for all of those sites that you find interesting but aren’t quite addicted to enough to visit every day.  They include the top hot questions for the week, new up-voted unanswered questions, and (coming soon!) important moderator announcements.  They’re an easy way to catch up on what you might have missed each week. …

Among other things, we sell job listings through our Careers 2.0 service, and we thought it might be helpful to determine some of the factors that impact the success of a listing. So we crunched through 6 months of data and these are some of the things we found.

In order to get people to apply for your job, you will have to get them to your listing first. There are a few places that will help with that: our text ads on Stack Overflow (see image), various places on our web site and our tweets. Due to space considerations there isn’t a whole lot for people to base their decision on (to click or not to click?). They’ll see: …