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Fixed broken Dev Story link and added missing site transitions. #267

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Expand Up @@ -30,15 +30,16 @@ Q&A tends to be somewhat competitive and adversarial. This means that users ofte

[![ELL error image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BAWYg.png)](http://ell.stackexchange.com/error)

We're growing in terms of topic area too. Last year we graduated 5 sites from beta status:
We're growing in terms of topic area too. Last year we graduated 6 sites from beta status:

* [Law](http://law.stackexchange.com/)
* [Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair](http://mechanics.stackexchange.com/)
* [Philosophy](http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/)
* [Programming Puzzles & Code Golf](http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/)
* [Puzzling](http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/)
* [Quantitative Finance](http://quant.stackexchange.com/)

The last two are particularly interesting as they push the boundaries of traditional Q&A. Instead of asking questions they _don't_ know the answers to, our puzzle sites are for people to pose challenges for others to solve. The Code Golf site has been doing this for years, so official graduation is long-awaited accomplishment.
Code Golf and Puzzling are particularly interesting as they push the boundaries of traditional Q&A. Instead of asking questions they _don't_ know the answers to, our puzzle sites are for people to pose challenges for others to solve. The Code Golf site has been doing this for years, so official graduation is long-awaited accomplishment.

I'm also pleased to report that we have a [site for Software Engineering](http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/). This site has been around since 2010, but you might not have known what it was about. That's because the site was called Programmers. (And old-timers recall it started out as [Not Programming Related](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3352/not-programming-related). It's a long story.) Besides being a better fit for the site's community, we've heard from regular users that new users are more likely to grok the scope of the community.

Expand All @@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ Meanwhile, the [best content according to voting](http://data.stackexchange.com/
4. [Did I just get hacked?](http://superuser.com/questions/1034233) (Super User, +438)
5. [Why is there so much fear surrounding LiPo batteries?](http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/230155/why-is-there-so-much-fear-surrounding-lipo-batteries/230164#230164) (Electronics, +419)

Once again, our designers amaze with their thoughtful site designs. They produced twelve more last year:
Once again, our designers amaze with their thoughtful site designs. They produced thirteen more last year:

* [Aviation](http://aviation.stackexchange.com/)
* [Blender](http://blender.stackexchange.com/)
Expand All @@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ Once again, our designers amaze with their thoughtful site designs. They produce
* [Music](http://music.stackexchange.com/)
* [Puzzling](http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/)
* [Signal Processing](http://dsp.stackexchange.com/)
* [Software Recommendations](http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/)
* [Worldbuilding](http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/)

[![Japanese robot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8hTwD.png)](http://japanese.stackexchange.com/captcha)
Expand All @@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ There's no real downside to [sharing our business model](http://stackoverflow.bl

Now I was tempted to not talk about [Enterprise](https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/enterprise), which is our Q&A product for large organizations. As long as I have worked here we've steered people away from it because it's so expensive and we assumed it didn't work. But then we started hearing reports of companies hosting thriving communities sharing internal knowledge. (We probably should have guessed based on experience with [smaller sites](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/257614/graduation-site-closure-and-a-clearer-outlook-on-the-health-of-se-sites).) At any rate, Enterprise is now a product we actively support and sell to large organizations. And just to be sure it works for others, we've started using an internal instance to collect and preserve company lore.

Last year we [redesigned the resume](http://stackoverflow.blog/2016/10/Bye-Bye-Bullets-The-Stack-Overflow-Developer-Story-is-the-New-Technical-Resume/) which allows programmers to show off what they've done whether or not they are looking for work. In 2016, 278,455 users updated their Developer Story. (If you aren't among that number, why not [try it out](s.tk/story)?)
Last year we [redesigned the resume](http://stackoverflow.blog/2016/10/Bye-Bye-Bullets-The-Stack-Overflow-Developer-Story-is-the-New-Technical-Resume/) which allows programmers to show off what they've done whether or not they are looking for work. In 2016, 278,455 users updated their Developer Story. (If you aren't among that number, why not [try it out](http://s.tk/story)?)

[![Puzzling!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VXJN9.png)](http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/captcha)

Expand All @@ -104,4 +106,3 @@ Here at Stack Exchange, we have a few annual traditions:
* Our annual [Winter Bash event](http://stackoverflow.blog/2017/01/say-farewell-to-winter-bash-2016/) was a smashing success as more users than ever donned digital dome decorations.

2016 marked a year of growing potential for Stack Exchange. While [not everything](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/330427/the-un-shipping-of-teams) we tried last year worked out, we’ve planted seeds that will bear fruit in 2017 and beyond. More importantly, our amazing communities continue to build (and curate) a massive collection of informative answers.