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    I also don't quite understand it from a business perspective. yea, SO is big, it's why they assumed the community's name and began doing business as SO 10 years ago. but today... SO is a seen dieing community. Traffic/engagement is plummeting, content is aging and rendered mostly irrelevant by in-ide LLM's, new content isn't being created at near the pace it used to be, and it's still memed on for being a toxic environment. Why the company would want to double down on this brand is beyond me. Commented Oct 10, 2025 at 17:13
  • Why? Because they want it so. And I'm thinking that you won't get anything more useful on that. What's going on? They will replace usage of Stack Exchanges with something else at some point. I think the current term is StackOverflow public platform sites although that sounds very beaurocratic. Maybe they find a better name. Something with exchanges would be cool. Commented Oct 11, 2025 at 9:43
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    I'm trying to work out an appropriate response without saying too much - but practically, I was asked to ask this question, even if the content and tone is all mine, and we're trying to get what I think are better outcomes in the background. And yeah, we might not get it, but its better to try our best, and fail than not try at all ya? Commented Oct 12, 2025 at 1:29
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    Throwing a potential spanner in the works (although I'm sure I'm not the first person to bring this up), but perhaps the "Stack Exchange" entity should be split off into a NFP/charity organisation, leaving SO (the company) in charge of just SO (and now with a nice new charitable tax write off?). (Then we could talk open-sourcing the codebase, too) Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 5:31
  • @Robotnik They may not be interested in promoting the stack exchanges much, but they they will certainly not be interested at all in creating competition. This is just about branding, that's all. In principle a non-issue, because a name change doesn't change the content, except that it does matter a bit and except that it signals them not having a lot of interest in the non-technological exchanges, which probably reduces motivation to further contribute to them, which is bad. Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 5:56
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    @NoDataDumpNoContribution they've spent 10 years making it clear they have no interest in SE sites. Every feature has been an SO deploy "first", with an SE followup "never". Documentation: shelved indefinitely. Discussions/Articles: SO only. Home page redesign: SO-only, Jobs: SO-only. Profile redesign: SO-only. Comment redesign: SO-only. The only thing SE sites got was standardised theming, ostensibly with the idea that future work/theming for SE sites would be easy. How many plain SE sites are there again? Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 6:08
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    (cont) It's hard to imagine a future which has them "signal them not having a lot of interest in the non-technological exchanges" MORE than what they do currently. Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 6:09
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    @Robotnik You're right. It was always like this. Just imagine how the stack exchanges could look like, would they have chosen a broader approach. Still doesn't mean they will give anything away for free. I don't see them doing this. Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 6:48
  • It seems to be clear beyond any doubt that we cannot get this clarity. We have to live with the muddy situation (or draw the consequences). Commented Nov 12, 2025 at 7:32
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    "Our public platform, including the Stack Exchange network, will now be known simply as Stack Overflow..." --- Chandrasekar and Bailey, A new era of Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Blog, 30 Dec 2025. Commented Dec 31, 2025 at 4:31
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    As explained here, Stack Exchange are editing the dates on blog posts, so despite "A new era of Stack Overflow" post's date saying "30 Dec 2025", the actual publication date is "07 Oct 2025". Commented Dec 31, 2025 at 23:36