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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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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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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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 ...
Jody BaileyStaff
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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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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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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 ...
Thom AMod
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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 tried the redesign beta and the experience was awful
Right from the homepage, "AI Assist" is staring me in the face. When I go to Stack Overflow, I don't want to necessarily start a chat with anyone. If I wanted to have a chat, I'd use Copilot ...
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In the new beta, what if anything happens to existing closed questions?
What happens to existing closed questions or, I guess, also the existing questions in general? I’m not sure if I just missed this detail in the announcement, but I don’t remember reading info on this.
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beta.stackoverflow.com returns error 500
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Something went wrong
We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred. This our fault.
Detailed information about this error has been recorded and we have been notified.
If you’...
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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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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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Stack Overflow beta does not show deleted posts
I can view my deleted question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79346222/do-browsers-ever-make-chunked-requests, but not at https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79346222/do-browsers-ever-...
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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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