Timeline for answer to I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the site redesign by TylerH
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| 11 secs ago | comment | added | NeilG | Haven't you noticed how many tech resources including open source projects are being politicised by funded groups? Political promotion is the main priority. Getting access to funds is secondary. And technical excellence, rather than a poor third, seems to be an inverted priority to destroy. Have a look around the world today and see if you don't notice similar trends in other domains. | |
| 3 hours ago | comment | added | Starship | @AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні You. Me. Us. All of us. We, the community, need to build such a new, better, site. We can't rely on "someone else will figure it out". | |
| 20 hours ago | comment | added | Andras Deak -- Слава Україні | @blackgreen "Also, SO sister sites don’t have a comparable amount of traffic nor a large pool of users who can answer" is exactly why they shouldn't be merged. You don't seem to have considerable rep on any other tech site. Rather than doing what the company does (make calls without considering the impact on those affected), ask said small sites first. Giving good-sounding harmful advice to a company that we know won't dig into exploring consequences is irresponsible. | |
| 21 hours ago | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | I once thought one can have a single database of questions of all topics with a single user account and then communities that might be overlapping as views on all the Q&As. No more migration needed. That might have its own problems though. | |
| 23 hours ago | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | That would probably kill many of the smaller or medium sized network communities. We're not succeeding or thriving cause we've constantly been hobbled, and the company would rather promote other companies or projects over stack exchange or stack overflow - just look at the blog. You'd lose me if you merged super user with SO - and we serve niches SO does not, and where many developers fear to tread. | |
| 23 hours ago | comment | added | pkamb | @blackgreen at the very least, provide cross-site rep / privileges sharing so a 30k user on SO can also fully contribute and curate in other tech sites. It will take literal years now to gain the needed reputation in a new site. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | blackgreen Mod | I strongly support merging all the tech sites. We would do away with all the quibbling about where questions belong, meaning less friction for askers and curators. It is especially anachronistic nowadays as the lines between tech roles are blurred. Also, SO sister sites don’t have a comparable amount of traffic nor a large pool of users who can answer. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | bobble | "Alternatively... just finally do away with all the different sites and instead just have one big site where people can filter questions based on 'topic'. Otherwise those other network sites are never gonna succeed or thrive like Stack Overflow once did." -- not all other sites are technical or even adjacent to SO. Speaking as a moderator on Puzzling SE, a thriving community which has been at the same size for ~5 years, and which would not like being forced to join with the titan that is SO. We have ~4QPD; we'd be drowned out. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | TylerH | @AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні Well Codidact has existed since 2020 and is open-source or something close to it. They're a non-profit alternative by ex-SE users. Adoption has been a struggling point, though. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Andras Deak -- Слава Україні | Nice list. So who'll start on the new website that follows the above points, now that we're losing this one for good? | |
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