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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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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Please show us a version number on the beta site
This is what we have on the main site:
Goal is, we would know, if there is a new deployment. We would also get some hints about its date or some internal version number, if there is one.
On the ...
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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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Questions posted on beta are not visible in feeds on main site. How should I watch my tag of interest at one place?
I recently observed that one of my Custom Filters was showing blue circle, indicating that there is new question or activity in the tag I am watching. I clicked on it to see the activity, but there ...
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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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If you're going to force the Stacks Editor on your users, can it finally have parity with the old editor?
It seems that on the Beta site, when you are answering a question, you have the choice of the Stacks Editor, sans Markdown with Preview Mode, or... Oh, that's the end of the list. This is a TERRIBLE ...
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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)
Answer box
For testing purposes, I posted an answer ...
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Make the new UI more compact
The new design is less compact than the old design.
New design:
Old design:
Feature request: Could the new design be made more compact?
It's the second time that the new UI makes the interface less ...
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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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Please return orange to the SO logo on the site banner
The angling lines on the StackOverflow logo should go back to being orange. This change is not an improvement, particularly the monochromaticity aspect of it. (I'm not such a fan of the new favicon ...
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The link to Staging Ground is missing in the Beta left navigation [duplicate]
The link to Staging Ground is missing in Beta. I think it should be included in the left navigation under the Content section.
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Can't reply to a tooling question in either beta or classic, 3 browsers
I'd like to reply to a question (Beta link) on the main site marked "Tooling". I typed my response in the textbox, and hit Reply. Nothing happened.
I tried switching to the beta site. Still ...
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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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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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Beta "Newest Questions" page: questions are not aligned properly
I just tried the Beta version of the "Questions" page, and have noticed what seems to be a fairly straightforward bug with how the list of questions is presented: the alignment of questions ...
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