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This, so much. Jay Hanlon is the single worst thing that has happened to Stack Overflow, hands down. His relentless focus on inclusion is all form and no functi
by wool_gather 9y ago
This, so much. Jay Hanlon is the single worst thing that has happened to Stack Overflow, hands down. His relentless focus on inclusion is all form and no function: making things seem nicer, without addressing the actual painpoints experienced by all users, new or veteran. Those painpoints engender frustration and lead to the hostility that comes from both sides. For all his insistence on the primacy of people's feedback, he completely ignores and dismisses the concerns of existing, engaged users.
Whatever gains have come from the the means he has chosen come at the very real cost of the expertise that makes the site useful.
Eight, even six, years ago, when you clicked that link from Google to Stack, you got your answer, first time. Now you're lucky if you can find it among the broken code masquerading as a task-oriented question and copy-pasted answers that reply.