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    "We want to explore leveraging existing community decision making processes (mods, meta etc) to empower individual Stack Exchange sites to determine their own look and feel, rather than a top-down approach." makes me more hopeful about this go-round. I hope to see more community control over things that have in the past been mandated by the company. Commented Jun 2 at 20:23
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    On MathJaX specifically - on TeX-sx we actively don't want it enabled, so a network-wide activation would be not just a hit in load time but in functionality! Commented Jun 3 at 8:34
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    I want the mothership back as an ask question button!!! Commented Jun 4 at 0:17
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    @ColleenV Me, on the contrary. It turns my buzzword Geiger counter into a white noise generator. Commented Jun 4 at 12:12
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    @user3840170 This is a staff posting in their official capacity and the company's relationship to the community is still quite volatile. They need to be formal to try to avoid triggering people. I am still encouraged that they recognize that a top-down approach might not be the best choice. Commented Jun 4 at 13:33
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    Exactly. For example, the "TeX" community has a few high-powered deverlopers, a few more low-powered responders, and a large number of new or rare users. This is because the nature of TeX is its usage for writing mathematics-intensive publications, and there are not many folks who do that repeatedly. Many users will only do it once, for a dissertation. I expect that it is quite the opposite for sites with more versatile programming languages, or other general information. Commented Jun 4 at 21:44
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    Philippe, at least, has always been very clear about recognizing the platform's variety of communities and attempts to avoid lumping them all into an aggregate. Commented Jun 5 at 7:53