Timeline for Logo updates to Stack Overflow's visual identity
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Post Revisions
66 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour ago | comment | added | leetbacoon | Stupid and boring, in typical corpo slop fashion | |
| 5 hours ago | answer | added | musicamante | timeline score: 2 | |
| 22 hours ago | comment | added | Wyck | Too little too late. | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Michael Seifert | timeline score: 5 | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | N. Virgo | timeline score: 10 | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | hazelnut_116 | The new logo and styles suck.... why did the hell change it? | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Dhairya Kumar | I highly doubt whether SE will survive till 2030 itself... feels it won't @CharonX_has_given_up_on_SE | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | CharonX_has_given_up_on_SE | Could we instead use a vomiting emoji as a logo? I feel that would perfectly represent how the community feels about the direction SE is steering AND how much SE cares for its community. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | tenfour | Somewhere between a joke and an insult. Imagine your company in rapid decline and this is how you decide to spend your resources. | |
| 2 days ago | review | Close votes | |||
| 2 days ago | |||||
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Shourya | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 26 at 2:53 | answer | added | Mr. Squirrel.Downy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 25 at 23:16 | comment | added | user400654 | Maybe a toilet seat cover? | |
| Feb 25 at 20:53 | answer | added | wobtax | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 25 at 19:33 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | You've spend a year for something nobody asked for and what doesn't solve any problem. Just be honest. You did it because you need to do something to justify being paid. | |
| Feb 25 at 18:22 | comment | added | D S | I'm not saying the change will harm meor anything, but I'm not a fan of changes, and my OCD brain will not let me live in peace for a weeks now ...... :( | |
| Feb 25 at 16:16 | answer | added | Ξένη Γήινος | timeline score: 26 | |
| Feb 25 at 16:08 | answer | added | Resistance Is Futile | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 25 at 15:09 | comment | added | Boann | Somebody at SE has a fetish for bland, generic, instantly forgettable monochrome design, we get it. | |
| Feb 25 at 10:28 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 25 at 8:24 | comment | added | u111 | Many people were saying the same thing as they are now about the current design. | |
| Feb 25 at 7:18 | answer | added | Lundin | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 25 at 6:45 | answer | added | stackprotector | timeline score: 65 | |
| Feb 25 at 5:23 | comment | added | Roger | "Before" look: Cool and inviting! Love it! "After" look: Clunky, clumsy, obnoxious, crude and ... just too heavy. | |
| Feb 25 at 0:14 | comment | added | Thérèse | Looks like a scoliotic spine. | |
| Feb 24 at 20:28 | comment | added | TylerH | Switching to monochrome is certainly one of the choices of all time. | |
| Feb 24 at 19:21 | comment | added | thirtydot | What a waste of time. Just revert it, the previous design was great. | |
| Feb 24 at 19:03 | answer | added | Andreas Rejbrand | timeline score: 59 | |
| Feb 24 at 18:46 | comment | added | Richard | I'm tempted to not even bother telling you that it's broken on the mobile version. | |
| Feb 24 at 18:40 | comment | added | j08691 | I didn't see this mentioned anywhere so I'll just add that the favicon looks like shit | |
| Feb 24 at 18:34 | answer | added | bta | timeline score: 29 | |
| Feb 24 at 18:06 | comment | added | InterceptorTSK | Strong black logo looks like logo for funeral home "Avada Kedavra", and four coffins for your choice. | |
| Feb 24 at 18:03 | answer | added | voided | timeline score: 35 | |
| Feb 24 at 6:19 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 47 | |
| Feb 24 at 1:34 | comment | added | CPlus | Why? The old logo is fine! | |
| Feb 24 at 0:57 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 36 | |
| Feb 23 at 9:40 | comment | added | philipxy | I get it. There will be jack in the box. | |
| Feb 23 at 3:30 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | How much money did Stack Exchange spend on this task? How much more is allocated to be spent? | |
| Feb 23 at 1:39 | answer | added | forest distrusts StackExchange | timeline score: 134 | |
| Feb 22 at 14:40 | comment | added | N. Virgo | As someone with poor eyesight, I genuinely thought you were changing the name to "Stock Overflow". The new logo is fine - I quite like that it's not coloured, given that it will appear on many sites with different colour schemes - but you probably do want to look into legibility of the text. | |
| Feb 22 at 11:18 | comment | added | Marian Spanik | The picture in the logo looks like stock image of artificial eyelashes. And because of the font used, it even reads as "Stock overflow" on my PC screen. | |
| Feb 20 at 12:23 | comment | added | DBS | I don't like putting down other peoples work, but this is tagged with discussion, sooo: The typography of that new logo just looks like the name of the company has been written out in a text editor and screenshot, it's just extremely generic text with no personality whatsoever. | |
| Feb 20 at 9:47 | comment | added | aepot | 2009 SE Logo is awesome! Never seen that because I'm relatively new to SE. | |
| Feb 19 at 20:58 | comment | added | Peter Turner | What are you going to do with the logo on slinky.SE? | |
| Feb 19 at 16:06 | comment | added | chrki | Have you done any user testing yet on the logo? Regarding the "driving question" you are trying to solve? The last few paragraphs, except the last one and Joel's quote, read as if AI-assisted, a bit made-up and very marketing-y. | |
| Feb 19 at 15:56 | comment | added | T3 H40 | In light of recent discussions, I can't help but notice the irony in how "the stack" keeps shrinking with every change... | |
| Feb 19 at 12:45 | answer | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | timeline score: 65 | |
| Feb 19 at 10:44 | answer | added | Pikamander2 | timeline score: 255 | |
| Feb 19 at 9:58 | answer | added | IMSoP | timeline score: 294 | |
| Feb 19 at 0:50 | comment | added | philipxy | (Also the byline phrasing contains redundancy, also ironic.) | |
| Feb 19 at 0:42 | answer | added | Giacomo1968 | timeline score: 34 | |
| Feb 19 at 0:41 | comment | added | philipxy | The Stack Overflow Design page on Copywriting byline ... has a spelling error ... trying to say "How to write effectively ...". | |
| Feb 18 at 23:38 | comment | added | Rebecca J. Stones | Can we get a ballpark idea of when "Stack Exchange" is going to be obsoleted (replaced with "Stack Overflow")? | |
| Feb 18 at 19:45 | comment | added | user400654 | the new logo is in the post, it's just too small to see without opening the image in a new tab. | |
| Feb 18 at 19:33 | comment | added | LShaver | The history is nice, but can you put the new logo in the post too? | |
| Feb 18 at 18:36 | comment | added | Richard | Logo redesigns are the corporate equivalent of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Y'all should have taken the money spent, and spent it on actually promoting the sites out in the real world. | |
| Feb 18 at 17:36 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 18 at 17:32 | answer | added | Canadian Luke | timeline score: 89 | |
| Feb 18 at 17:24 | history | edited | V2BlastStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 5 characters in body; edited tags
|
| Feb 18 at 17:23 | comment | added | BretonMage | IMO, there's no reason to push this corporate design. “When someone lands on one of our sites for the first time, do they understand what they're looking at?” In my experience, yes. When I first joined, I immediately understood the interface of the site. In fact, this makes it even harder for new users that join. Realize how the themed sites used to say "Stack Exchange" in the top left corner to indicate that it is, in fact, not stackoverflow? With that gone, new users have one less method to differentiate both sites. | |
| Feb 18 at 17:17 | answer | added | Dan Getz | timeline score: -16 | |
| Feb 18 at 17:08 | history | edited | DalmarusStaffMod |
edited tags
|
|
| Feb 18 at 16:49 | comment | added | Y.A. | Hate to say it, but with the different font it now looks like "STOCK OVERFLOW". | |
| Feb 18 at 16:45 | comment | added | user400654 | @samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz it's probably going away anyway, some time after all community based curation is removed, eliminating most purposes of per-site meta existing. | |
| Feb 18 at 16:45 | comment | added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | It is already difficult for a lot of users to understand the difference between main meta and SO meta, using the same logo on both sites must be very confusion for casual users. | |
| Feb 18 at 16:30 | history | asked | Eric MartinStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |