Timeline for answer to New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com by Greg Burghardt
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| 11 hours ago | comment | added | ggorlen | Mostly a great answer, but "I'm totally fine experimenting with non Q&A content" prevents me from upvoting this. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | pythoncoder42 | The Reddit comparison is apt because they've also spent the past few years pushing through changes that worsen the user experience (shutting down third-party apps, removing the targeted ad opt-out, selling user data to LLM trainers) in order to make the line go up. AND YET, seven years after Reddit rolled out their first major redesign (which has since been replaced by the one shown above), you can still access the 2005 frontend via old.reddit.com. Reddit has become mainstream enough that user revolts aren't viable, but SO is a specialist website by nature. This will not end well for them. | |
| Feb 25 at 22:43 | comment | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas | (Aside: I appreciate which reddit post you screenshotted in your example 😂) | |
| Feb 25 at 19:56 | comment | added | John Montgomery | We've all been joking about how they're trying to be a Reddit clone but man, that is really unsubtle. | |
| Feb 25 at 14:44 | comment | added | user400654 | reddit has more consistent text formatting and a better usage of color. I also haven't really known it to shove ai into every crevasse it can find. | |
| Feb 25 at 13:02 | history | edited | Greg Burghardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
question instead of answer
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| Feb 24 at 22:16 | history | edited | Greg Burghardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added Q&A screenshot which is also very flat and hard to read.
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| Feb 24 at 22:10 | history | edited | Greg Burghardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added Q&A screenshot which is also very flat and hard to read.
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| Feb 24 at 22:05 | comment | added | Cerbrus | At least reddit has 1 "post" and the rest under it are threaded replies... SO tries to mix in answers in the same layout, and it just one jumbled mess. | |
| Feb 24 at 22:04 | comment | added | zcoop98 | It boggles my mind that they seem so keen on racing towards a generic, washed-out, & bland brand identity, seemingly in the name of being "sleek" and "modern", or maybe distancing themselves from feeling "outdated". This answer has stuck with me; it articulates this idea much better than I can. | |
| Feb 24 at 21:57 | history | answered | Greg Burghardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |