Timeline for answer to New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com by kaya3
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| Feb 19 at 14:08 | comment | added | TylerH | @pilchard Exactly. Big "COVID cases will go down if we stop testing for COVID" energy from Stack Overflow these days. | |
| Feb 19 at 13:26 | comment | added | George Stocker | I agree with you. Let me start there. The issue is that the company’s incentives are not to produce a good quality Q&A site; the company’s incentives are to get as many eyeballs as possible so that ads can pay the bills and make them money. Their KPIs are shortsighted on the eyeballs part, and they seem to believe that the curation workflows are at least in part responsible for eyeballs going down, so they are removing them. As long as the visits metrics go up and to the right they are happy. Nothing we can say will fix their flawed outlook and flawed strategy. | |
| Feb 19 at 9:55 | comment | added | Lundin | Imagine if you are running a factory which produces widgets and suddenly management decides that now it should be rebuilt to resemble a post-apocalyptic, industrial wasteland, where emphasis will be on making the place look as if filled with hazmat and radioactivity to ensure that no factory workers show up. It will stop producing anything but will instead be financed by ad boards displayed to the occasional traveler moving through the wasteland. No workers, no customers, just pure profit from abandoned wasteland ad boards. | |
| Feb 19 at 9:52 | comment | added | kaya3 | @user400654 That exactly fits with what I am talking about. Of course the factory will see its order numbers drop, when they have intentionally discarded their quality standards. | |
| Feb 18 at 23:31 | comment | added | pilchard | @user400654 but they recorded more clicks! more 1 rep users typed something! There were fewer closures (because they can't be closed)! | |
| Feb 18 at 22:59 | comment | added | user400654 | Not quite sure this fits, given the introduction of open ended questions last year hasn't prevented a continued drop from 3.2k questions a week to 2k | |
| Feb 18 at 20:57 | comment | added | roganjosh | "60% of the time, our widgets work every time". | |
| Feb 18 at 20:22 | history | answered | kaya3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |