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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beta site fails to open links pointing to comments
Here is a generated link from the profile page for test:
https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56514998/how-to-find-all-available-images-for-imagesystemname/62731361#comment140982634_62731361
it ...
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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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Search terms are lost
The search box in beta.stackoverflow.com doesn't keep the search terms.
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This shows the search box containing the search term, in this case [google-sheets], before pressing Enter
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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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Inconsistency and invalid colors on beta site
There are some hovering colors in the profile page, different from each other and all are wrong (based on the original SO design system).
For example, The selected page should be orange but it seems ...
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Tag links on the new beta site are broken
On the new beta site, tag links to tags containing illegal characters for a URL are broken because they aren't URL encoded.
For example the C# tag, on the current site it's (with unnecessary bits ...
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Links in Inbox and Achievements are pointing to the old (original) domain
I've checked many links and almost all of them correctly mapped to the new sub-domain except for the links in the Inbox and Achievements menu including links to badges, comments, votes and etc.
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Beta claims sharing links are copied to clipboard even if they aren't
I have my browser configured (intentionally) in such a way that JavaScript to copy onto the clipboard does not work. When I try to use the "copy" buttons on source code (in either the main ...
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