Linked Questions
10 questions linked to/from New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com
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Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow
Last week, as part of our Outdated Answers project, we ran a test on Stack Overflow to see what would happen if we stopped pinning the accepted answer to the top of the list of answers. As expected, ...
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Am I still supposed to explain my downvotes or not?
Over in Should we discourage leading +/-1 on comments?, Shog9 introduced a comment filter that prevented us from posting comments starting with -1. Okay, fine. But what are we supposed to post instead?...
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The company plans to remove closing questions and most review queues
As my clarification edit to the question's title was rolled back, this is a discussion question relating to the linked announcement titled
Starting February 24, 2026: check out our new site design at ...
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Modernizing curation: A proposal for The Workshop and The Archive
TL;DR: The opinion experiment revealed that users aren't looking for subjective debates; rather, they most often seek detailed explanations. To capture this value, we propose a radical shift: stop ...
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A discussion about closed (and potentially useful) posts on Stack Overflow
As we all know well: Stack Overflow’s Q&A model is designed to deliver precise, canonical answers to specific programming problems. Over the years, this focus has built a valuable knowledge base, ...
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No, I do not believe this is the end
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain
We all have seen the graph that is making the rounds. The question posed. The assumptions made. I have seen the speculation. Many ...
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How can we "help improve beta" that retires curation?
The recent announcement regarding the 2026 redesign asks for our help to improve the beta design. It also, quite curiously, notes that the new "design" plans to retire curation workflows.
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How can we stop this AI decline and make Stack Overflow a popular reliable and important tool for devs again? [closed]
In the past 1-2 years lots of rumours state that Stack Overflow is losing its public; tools like AI are taking over, as it is much faster and easier to ask questions on them.
How can we stop this ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Questions are a bit tricky to locate since we don't have the question labeling supported. For the time being I will keep this table updated daily so interested community members can find them easier.
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
Update December 16th, 2025
Threading was released this morning. You can reply to different replies to the question and then respond to those replies, and so on. We don't have a cap on levels of nested ...
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