Timeline for answer to It's time to admit that Discussions have failed; can we please turn it off? by Kevin Krumwiede
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| Jun 11, 2025 at 22:53 | comment | added | John Montgomery | Even under the "don't delete anything ever" stance that you seem to be following, I don't see how you can argue that. If it had pulled a meaningful portion of the opinion-based questions away from the main Q&A space that would have been something of value at least, but it didn't even accomplish that much. | |
| Jun 11, 2025 at 14:14 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | "Discussions is by far the most valuable" I would certainly argue against that. As for the failure, yes Stack Overflow are definitely to blame for that; if they wanted it to succeed then it would have functionality on par with the main site by now (or just prior to code challenges going live). That it doesn't only evidences how little attention it got, and how little hope it had of succeeding. | |
| Jun 11, 2025 at 14:14 | comment | added | Gimby | The most valuable? Come on. The absolute biggest value of Stack Overflow is that when you search using Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/etc., Stack Overflow is usually in the top 5 hits at least once, but probably twice or more times. It pretty much made AI code "assistance" possible. That is unbeatable value, no matter what nuts and bolts are layered on top. Discussions was a quaint, severely underdeveloped feature. Nothing more. | |
| Jun 11, 2025 at 14:00 | comment | added | M-- | Well, that's the point. Documentation has also failed, even though it was very much liked. Improper implementation kills good ideas: meta.stackexchange.com/q/408764 | |
| Jun 11, 2025 at 13:42 | history | answered | Kevin Krumwiede | CC BY-SA 4.0 |