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A new era of Stack Overflow. (stackoverflow.blog)
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Extra.

LOL in a lot of ways.

2025 is gonna be interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago

Yeah... This doesn't sound promising. Refusing to acknowledge the obvious fact that AI and hostile mods have driven away 99% (not an exaggeration!) of their audience. A visual makeover before the change anything. Trying to sell the Q/A database for AI despite the fact that you can download it for free. They even talk up their job advertising product that they inexplicably cancelled a few years ago (btw I found levels.fyi has a pretty good job database if anyone is looking).

If it were me I would:

  1. Use AI to improve question quality - if people post obviously bad questions get AI to improve it via a conversation.
  2. Make it waaaaay harder to close questions. Like, require 10 votes and allow the asker to reopen it for free once.
  3. Make it so questions can't go below 0 points.
  4. Make it impossible to close as duplicate. You should be able to mark questions as possible duplicates (and the asker can say "yes it is") but if they don't it should stay open.
  5. Maybe even make it impossible to close questions at all. What actual purpose does it solve apart from driving people away?

Apart from the AI that's all stuff they should have done 10 years ago.

It's probably too late anyway.