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The new Stack Overflow will be one built to feel like a personalized homepage—your own technical aggregator. It might collect videos, blogs, Q&A, war stories, jokes, educational materials, jobs, all these formats (or maybe others, we would love to hear your ideas!), and fold them together into one personalized destination.
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reaching for that stack overflow
I'm skeptical. We'll see how they implement it, and whether they can gain enough contributors for it ti be useful.
Eh they had their chance to fix the moderation issues. It's been a good run but I think this is the beginning of the end.
Hopefully whatever replaces them won't make the same mistakes.
Is phase two implementing AI to close issues, mark them as duplicate, and add a snarky comment?
That would save a lot of time...
The toxicity automator, it will even begin making stupid questions itself to respond angrily to
The new Stack Overflow will be one built to feel like a personalized homepage—your own technical aggregator. It might collect videos, blogs, Q&A, war stories, jokes, educational materials, jobs, all these formats (or maybe others, we would love to hear your ideas!), and fold them together into one personalized destination. We want this place to be your “third screen”—your entry point to your own neighborhood on the internet.
The only thing they have ever done well is host a Q&A board and incubate niche communities.
Then they stopped doing that well.
