Timeline for answer to New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com by wizzwizz4
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| Feb 23 at 14:28 | comment | added | M-- | @Hoid that's Reddit, basically. Although, to be fair, that's not the worst thing about it. The whole format of "threaded" replies is the problem, but I am sure folks have already explained that problem to you (SO). | |
| Feb 21 at 1:05 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | I have no problem with making a new site. I have no problem with calling the new site "Stack Overflow": rename the existing site, if you have to. Don't bulldoze what we have, because you want to use the land for something you expect to be more profitable: it's the internet, there is no land! (If the required programming work is too intense, you have an army of programming experts who are already volunteering their labour, and might not quite be alienated enough to decline to help with the programming as well.) | |
| Feb 21 at 1:02 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @Hoid I would call that "back-to-front" (since "backwards" has negative connotations). Additionally, it's a regression, re-introducing many of the problems that accepted answer unpinning solved. The problem you're trying to solve with "new acceptance" is supposed to be addressed by the voting system: you should be thinking about voting reform (which is hard), rather than mixing an ad-hoc voting reform with a jargon round-robin. It seems like the decision-makers are expecting that to somehow, magically, make the hard problem easier. It won't. | |
| Feb 20 at 15:41 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | I am not suggesting going back to the old model in the outdated answers post. I am suggesting more in line with what you are, just backwards. Allowing mods and certain users to add one or more answers as the accepted answers, and just have the discussion sit behind them. | |
| Feb 19 at 8:32 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @Dharman For certain kinds of question (where the OP has privileged access to the ability to verify an answer's correctness), it is useful. Stack Overflow doesn't tend to have those questions as much as some other sites do: in fact, SO questions are supposed to be self-contained. | |
| Feb 19 at 2:36 | comment | added | Dharman Mod | I'd much rather see the concept of accepted answer gone completely. It causes more bad than good things. | |
| Feb 19 at 0:11 | history | answered | wizzwizz4 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |