New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/438177/new-site-design-and-philosophy-for-stack-overflow-starting-february-24-2026-at
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RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip · 38 pts · 140d
The AI chat right at the top of page is very reassuring
Eldritch@piefed.world · 14 pts · 140d
Suck overflow confirmed?
NGram@piefed.ca · 22 pts · 140d
Slop overflow, for when the slop machine can't lie to you well enough
PM_ME_SOMETHING@fedinsfw.app · 29 pts · 140d
The company that bought SO years ago has been making a bunch of shitty decisions since they bought it. Then LLMs happened and traffic continued to decline, and they been panicking since. This redesign is half baked at best and is being pretty heavily rejected by the community they have left.
Personally I'd start checking out alternatives, as the company is starting to lean pretty far into the Ai thing. I'd recommend looking at https://software.codidact.com/
morto@piefed.social · 12 pts · 140d
When they close, it will be a huge loss of information in the internet...
51dusty@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 140d
kokesh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 140d
I've poisoned all my content there, bit by bit and don't plan on coming back.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 139d
But backed it up and plan on posting it somewhere else?
kokesh@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 139d
No. How would I post questions and answers?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 139d
But it's Stack Overflow, not Reddit...
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 138d
LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it's the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.
Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn't make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.