Questions tagged [redesign-2026]
For questions about the the 2026 redesign of the Stack Overflow website, which was first released into beta in February 2026.
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New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com
Update February 26th,2026
As was mentioned on February 20th, we have another post covering more of our thinking and plans on how we are going about improving question closure.
Update February 24th, ...
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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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Is the new Stack Overflow beta UX really useful? What is the purpose of these changes?
I just tried the Stack Overflow beta. This new UX has some obvious and less obvious changes. Here is a tentative list with my personal feedback:
👎👎👎 less color
👎👎 no visible separation for the ...
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Duplicate questions shows the answer box and allow to post an answer
Post notice for a duplicate question
This question may already have answers:
Create copy of sheet and rename with todays date +4 days (2 answers)
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For testing purposes, I posted an answer ...
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Question page: when am I reading a different answer?
I keep overlooking the difference between one answer and the next, and even between the question and its first answer. This isn't surprising, given the decreased horizontal movement (e.g, indentation),...
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Syntax highlighting has poor contrast in dark mode
Code - at least for C#, I haven't tried other tags yet - is barley readable due to poor contrast in dark mode on the redisigned pages:
I'm using Firefox 148.0 on Windows 11
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I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the site redesign
I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. I’m here today to acknowledge and attempt to address the understandably strong reactions we’ve seen from some community members in ...
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Beta "Newest Questions" page: up and down arrow are broken
I just tried the Beta version of the "Questions" page, and have noticed a fairly straightforward bug with keyboard navigation and scrolling.
I use keyboard navigation a lot, but the up arrow,...
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