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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
I think that given the sort of turmoil experienced of late at Stack Exchange, it might be wise for us here at MO to take certain measures to reinforce our status as an entity independent from Stack ...
Tim CampionMod
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
In my opinion, if it were easy for MathOverflow to leave, then we should have done it already. There's no bright line, but it's become clear over the last few years that Stack Exchange Inc is not an ...
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Are edits performed by external, non-SE robots allowed?
Just to give some background on this project: it's indeed something I'm doing on my own, independent of Stack Exchange. There are more independent 'volunteer' projects around the Stack Exchange ...
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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
New Answer:
Upon reflection, Emilio is 100% correct: We need to sound the alarm bells. Here's a link again to Emilio's well-thought-out answer on the main meta site explaining this, which is probably ...
Tim CampionMod
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What would be the disadvantages of a (hypothetical) MOexit?
As the founder of one of the sites on this network, who has put an insane amount of time into building that community of 6000+ users, I want to escape from SE just as much as anyone else, but ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
For one thing, I would consider SE changing drastically the licensing on MO data, or making restricted commercial profit out of it, to be a red line. In my opinion, MO data should remain free to ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
To me, the answer comes down to "what makes life easiest for the mods". I don't feel any loyalty or goodwill to the SE corporation, but I also don't feel goodwill to the deans and provosts ...
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What is MathOverflow's "agreement" with Stack Exchange?
Suggested in comments but I don't know if this is allowed. In any case: I've used an OCR program to copy the contents of the 2.5 pages below. I've used some minimal editing to keep the format vaguely ...
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Prosus' acquisition and its effect on MathOverflow
Here is what Joel Spolsky had to say about the effects on Stack Overflow:
Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Prosus is an investment and holding company, which ...
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What would be the disadvantages of a (hypothetical) MOexit?
In addition to practical issues around making the move and practical issues around whether the new hosts would do as good a job as SE, there's also the major concern of whether the new hosts would ...
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What would be the disadvantages of a (hypothetical) MOexit?
Answering directly to your questions:
Would we retain the same domain name?
Yes, because the domain name is property of the Mathoverflow foundation. Source
How similar would the user interface be?
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Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
The purpose of MathOverflow is to serve as a resource for professional mathematicians. If we allowed questions of any level, the vast majority of questions would be low-level questions (as is the ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
I suspect that the only way, in practice, to engineer a "MOexit" is the same way Brexit happened: have a referendum. A MOexit that isn't backed by an election result is surely going to be ...
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
Codidact was born of a previous mass exodus from SE and has some experience with migrating data from SE to their software platform, QPixel.
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Personally, I find it less usable than the status quo, but better than the new editor proposed by SE. So if it is inevitable that we will have to settle for an inferior alternative in future, this is ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
I love MO, and have always been a big fan of 'sticking it to the man' whenever possible. That being said, as I get older I'm beginning to feel the effects of constantly cutting off my nose to spite my ...
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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
Here is one option put forward by the SE developers: switching from MathJax to prosemirror-math. For a quick look at how it works, I'll just pull this from their readme:
Examples
Unlike other editors,...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
Converted from a comment by another user:
To me, one of the thresholds triggering the "nuclear option" would be SE firing one or more MO mods (the current agreement between MO and SE does ...
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Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
I think what my new downvoting friends were trying to say, is that there exists a stackexchange site for non-research MATH questions here:
https://math.stackexchange.com/
I was not aware that this ...
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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
The answer to
Will the CoC apply here, when it is finally sorted out?
seems to be "there is no 'will' and 'finally'". The blog entry posted on october 10th shows (some?) of the controversial ...
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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
There are very few MathOverflow posts in which anyone might feel a need to use a third person pronoun. If such a situation arose, it is most likely that the writer would naturally use a pronoun that ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Let me start with a positive:
AMScd diagrams are supported! It seems I don't even need to explicitly include a \require{AMScd} command (at any rate, when I did, ...
Tim CampionMod
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"Scope" of being blocked from asking
The FAQ post "What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?" contains the following paragraph:
Will a ban on one Stack Exchange site affect my ...
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
PhysicsOverflow has a setup that's reasonably close to MO. It runs on the Question2Answer software. It was in part set up a kind of exodus from physics.stackexchange
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
I would expect the database to be in a form similar to the existing periodic data dumps at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange (not that I have any idea what those ...
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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
It is more likely a question for StackExchange Community Managers than for moderators. I believe the moderators can provide an interesting but non definitive perspective. If the comment linked in ...
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What would be the disadvantages of a (hypothetical) MOexit?
This probably depends on the way how MO would (try to) continue.
As a separate site (with its own hosting and infrastructure),
or as a part of some network which hosts several sites. (I.e., something ...
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Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
The last question "Why is the stackexchange mathematics community against simple/googleable questions, while the stackexchange software community is not?" has not been answered, and it can be answered....
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Privacy of software-generated links to questions and answers
An overwhelming majority of those who participated in the poll are in favor
of modifying the existing system for obtaining links to answers.
How does one proceed from here? Shall we put in a request ...
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"Scope" of being blocked from asking
This refers to the so-called question ban and it's per site; your questions on MathOverflow do not influence your ability to ask questions on other Stack Exchange sites. Not even Meta MathOverflow; it'...
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