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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions _posts/2016-01-12-year-in-review-2015.md
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Have you ever looked at your digital collection (books, movies, music, games and so on) and realized you have titles you’ve never consumed and don’t even remember obtaining? Stack Exchange is like that **except all 150 communities prove to be amazing**. As a Community Manager, I’m obviously biased in my evaluation—except the quality of these sites has almost nothing to do with us. Instead credit goes to the thousands of core users who write posts, improve them and vote up the best content.

Excluding Stack Overflow, users asked 967,039 questions and provided 1.3 million answers. Over 4 million comments helped clarify those posts and people submitted 1.6 million edits. There were 7.1 million upvotes and 1 million downvotes to rank posts and reward authors with reputation. In addition to the 3 million reviews completed on Stack Overflow, 1.5 million posts were reviewed on other sites. Askers "accepted" 402,647 answers as particularly helpful in 2015. Answers don’t just benefit the people who ask the questions either. Last year the Stack Exchange network (including Stack Overflow) racked up [8 billion page views](https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc#/trafficCard). Nearly all of that traffic came from people searching the internet at large and discovering an answer on the network. Quantcast ranks the stackexchange.com domain (excluding the [trilogy](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/) and sites with custom URLs) in the [top 50 US sites](https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites/US/1).
Excluding Stack Overflow, users asked 967,039 questions and provided 1.3 million answers. Over 4 million comments helped clarify those posts and people submitted 1.6 million edits. There were 7.1 million upvotes and 1 million downvotes to rank posts and reward authors with reputation. In addition to the 3 million reviews completed on Stack Overflow, 1.5 million posts were reviewed on other sites. Askers "accepted" 402,647 answers as particularly helpful in 2015. Answers don’t just benefit the people who ask the questions either. Last year the Stack Exchange network (including Stack Overflow) racked up [8 billion page views](https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc#/trafficCard). Nearly all of that traffic came from people searching the Internet at large and discovering an answer on the network. Quantcast ranks the stackexchange.com domain (excluding the [trilogy](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/) and sites with custom URLs) in the [top 50 US sites](https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites/US/1).

In order to handle that much activity we need a massive data center, right? Well, not really. After serving faithfully for four years, [we upgraded](http://blog.serverfault.com/2015/03/05/how-we-upgrade-a-live-data-center/) the hardware in our "New York" data center. Instead of failing over to our backup data center in Oregon (which was moved to Denver in June), the Site Reliability Engineering team updated hardware live. This requires careful planning and plenty of redundancy: 11 web servers, two SQL clusters, two Redis servers, etc. Most of the time those machines run at single-digit CPU load. We expect the new hardware to keep up with the load for the next four years.

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1. [How do I deliver a baby?](http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/223800) Presumably a fair number of the 867,960 views were to figure out what game the question is about.
2. [Why does "effective. Power" text crash the iPhone OS?](http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/189045) (Apple, 448,473 views)
3. [How to disable the "Get Windows 10" icon shown in the notification area (tray)?](http://superuser.com/questions/922068) (SuperUser, 416,421 views)
3. [How to disable the "Get Windows 10" icon shown in the notification area (tray)?](http://superuser.com/questions/922068) (Super User, 416,421 views)

The top voted answers?

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17. [Software Recommendations](http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/)
18. [Musical Practice and Performance](http://music.stackexchange.com/)

After five years of [democratically electing moderators](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/stack-exchange-moderator-elections-begin/), it’s mind blowing that Stack Exchange is *still* the only major network (with the [notable exception of Wikipedia](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/31377/3252)) that embraces this form of self-governance. It’s a strategic advantage we wish more internet communities would adopt. We simply cannot thank our 476 [volunteer moderators](http://stackexchange.com/about/moderators?by=users) enough for their patience and dedication.
After five years of [democratically electing moderators](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/stack-exchange-moderator-elections-begin/), it’s mind-blowing that Stack Exchange is *still* the only major network (with the [notable exception of Wikipedia](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/31377/3252)) that embraces this form of self-governance. It’s a strategic advantage we wish more Internet communities would adopt. We simply cannot thank our 476 [volunteer moderators](http://stackexchange.com/about/moderators?by=users) enough for their patience and dedication.

At "Stack Exchange, Inc doing business as Stack Overflow", we think of our communities as our partners. The company’s responsibility is to provide our users with the very best platform for helping each other and creating lasting artifacts. This year, we plan to roll out some [mighty big changes](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/310066/stack-overflow-serving-programmers-even-better) that we expect will improve the lives the world’s software developers. (If you are a programmer, please take [our survey](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/314186/stack-overflow-annual-survey-2016) to help us know how to serve you better.) As with Q&A, we intend to open these features up to other domains as makes sense.
At "Stack Exchange, Inc doing business as Stack Overflow", we think of our communities as our partners. The company’s responsibility is to provide our users with the very best platform for helping each other and creating lasting artifacts. This year, we plan to roll out some [mighty big changes](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/310066/stack-overflow-serving-programmers-even-better) that we expect will improve the lives of the world’s software developers. (If you are a programmer, please take [our survey](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/314186/stack-overflow-annual-survey-2016) to help us know how to serve you better.) As with Q&A, we intend to open these features up to other domains as makes sense.

We aren’t finished with our existing products either. Each week, the community team asks our developers for three or so improvements often selected from the various Meta sites in the network. Some of them are small, such as [allowing privileges links to be clicked without JavaScript](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208667/allow-privileges-links-to-be-clicked-without-javascript). But we’ve also fixed highly upvoted requests such as [preventing canonical questions from being deleted](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/221619/auto-flag-duplicates-of-deleted-questions-for-reopening-deletion). JNat put together [a report](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b7191M2e2NnDJu11qKsV1ld8GiMjuv73UHT9gVX-H9k/edit?usp=sharing) describing the 75 requests directly benefiting either the community or moderators. He also [reports](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o-o_8PIQENVjeLBS9hhpy01rfnjuuxUbhZUn6vf1_nE/edit?usp=sharing) 433 community-requested features and 1,267 community-reported bugs were marked as completed in the year.

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