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    This is something that’s top of mind for us. We have some ideas on how we can make this easier to understand and navigate and will be exploring them more in depth soon and will bring ideas to research. Commented Jul 10, 2025 at 16:43
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    It is already confusing. Outside of the small circle of people who use SO/SE a lot and actively, this distinction is often not clear, and people will colloquially refer to ask.ubuntu or dba.stackexchange as 'stackoverflow'. Some knowingly use it incorrectly, others just don't know. And those people of course are not posting in this thread. Identifying a company by its most famous product is not unusual, especially when that is also the oldest well-known product. Just how Alphabet=Google and Meta=Facebook. I think SO is just adopting the colloquial usage of the name as the official one. Commented Jul 14, 2025 at 9:24
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    @julaine good point. I'm still curious if it will be "the main site", "Stack Overflow itself", or what. Commented Jul 14, 2025 at 12:17
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    @Piper. Wow, so much work to prop up a bad idea. Commented Jul 26, 2025 at 12:28