Timeline for Coding Challenges will continue to supersede the Discussions space
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| Sep 27, 2025 at 4:59 | comment | added | TwiWizNeeeArd | I remember logging onto discussions, refreshing the page every few minutes and flagging a ton of posts. | |
| Aug 31, 2025 at 17:03 | answer | added | M-- | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 21, 2025 at 21:57 | comment | added | M-- | I hate being a Cassandra. | |
| Aug 21, 2025 at 19:12 | comment | added | David C. Rankin | That's fair, but don't fall into the coding challenge site pitfall of providing crap boilerplate code riddled with improper language shortcuts wholly devoid of proper validation for contestants to start with. We've answered enough questions on SO in that regard. Not to mention the prevailing consensus "Do not use coding challenge sites to learn XYZ language, the sites are littered with bad coding examples and improper language usage." Why not some other event or discount that doesn't have all the negative baggage that goes against what SO stands for? | |
| Aug 21, 2025 at 8:34 | comment | added | Gimby | @DavidC.Rankin Why do shops do commercials, events and discounts? To draw in people who will become customers. For Stack Overflow to stay relevant, it will need features that people like. The precious Q&A repository is no longer a main attractor. | |
| Aug 21, 2025 at 5:46 | comment | added | David C. Rankin | Can you at least explain, in clear and simple language what the impetus is for adding a coding challenge in the first place? I see no continuity between the SO Q&A model and what "coding challenge" sites are. Why do we want one to begin with? | |
| Aug 20, 2025 at 11:08 | comment | added | Gimby | I won't miss the Discussions feature. Chat was built to keep discussions out of the knowledge base, it should continue to be used for discussions. I mean the first thing that happened is that it was abused for followup questions - by design, not because people just felt like doing it. The UI directed them to do it, poorly. Not even the company can contain itself with such a feature around, it immediately became a dumping ground. | |
| Aug 20, 2025 at 9:22 | comment | added | Sinatr | What I have learned from this website is that I dislike being a test subject. The end of an experiment is very good news! Keep up the good work and end as many experiments as possible! | |
| Aug 20, 2025 at 8:42 | answer | added | l4mpi | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 20, 2025 at 7:49 | history | edited | starballMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
less ambiguous title
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| Aug 20, 2025 at 7:25 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | It's two things in one Q&A here really. One is the sunsetting of discussions, the other is the continuation of code challenges. And the title could be more specific. | |
| Aug 19, 2025 at 23:22 | answer | added | Thomas Owens | timeline score: 28 | |
| Aug 19, 2025 at 22:35 | comment | added | John Montgomery | Hopefully if you learned anything from the experiment, it's that spammers will use any vector they can access and that some combination of posting restrictions and adequate moderation tooling is needed. Given the recent experiments with the comment reputation requirement, I'm not certain that lesson was learned. | |
| Aug 19, 2025 at 22:20 | history | edited | M-- |
while this is not about Challenges directly, it is related and having it tagged as such helps with finding this post later on.
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| Aug 19, 2025 at 21:05 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Aug 19, 2025 at 20:12 | history | edited | BertholdStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 1 character in body
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| Aug 19, 2025 at 19:55 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | Honestly, it's disappointing that discussions wasn't handled better to start with; I think you, and other users, could have learned more from it had it been better equipped from the start. | |
| Aug 19, 2025 at 19:51 | history | asked | BertholdStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |