Timeline for answer to I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the site redesign by Thingamabobs
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| 16 hours ago | comment | added | Thingamabobs | Well it is less exciting but I guess new people can join or old can come back. It's a variable after all that can go up as well. | |
| 16 hours ago | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | Just as new questions have declined, so has the number of people willing to ensure quality. We now have (much) less people to handle a volume that is still the same. | |
| 16 hours ago | comment | added | Thingamabobs | What I meant with --The low threshold of new question could be a blessing in this regard.-- is that I feel less occupied by new questions and could do more curation than before. I only do so nowadays if I stumble upon a Q&A by researching and then I edit/answer/upvote/downvote. Reviewing existing content seems to be the bigger target than new questions. Ain't it ? I still wish for more people coming here and asking new good questions and I think new members would be more attracted if they knew what spectrum is already covered. | |
| 16 hours ago | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | This has nothing to do with new questions (since another post also referred to this metric, it would be interesting to know why you think otherwise). The primary use as a knowledge base is to look up what has already been written. And this knowledge base itself has been in a quality decline over the past years and accumulated significant "review dept". I don’t think it makes sense for me to suggest a tooling solution when both company and moderators insist we don’t operate at that scale anymore. | |
| 17 hours ago | comment | added | Thingamabobs | @MisterMiyagi So wouldn't it be appropriated to have review queue for hot topics where we can do sanity checks? The low threshold of new question could be a blessing in this regard. Or what tool you would envision to tackle this ? | |
| 17 hours ago | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | "if you wanna talk to us about a decline of SO show us that our products (Q&A) aren't clicked anymore." Anecdotal, but I have long since stopped treating SO as the first step for finding information. There are many topics for which I don’t even trust it as a sanity check for GenAI queries. The "knowledge base" now includes so much uncurated noise and so many highly-voted bad practices, it’s not a reliable source of knowledge anymore. I keep consistently finding myself having to double check what I read here instead. | |
| 17 hours ago | history | answered | Thingamabobs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |