Two years ago, Stack Overflow officially launched an initiative intended to make the site more welcoming. My sense is that it's largely failed in its goals, but now I think we have data to help us evaluate the initiative. The 2020 Stack Overflow survey included a question about whether or not respondents felt Stack Overflow was more or less welcome than in the previous years:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://jlericson.com/2020/06/22/welcoming.html