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I don't understand the post, to be honest. It seems they wrote a book to announce that they will install a new logo and an updated design. They are asking the
by 7bit 1y ago
I don't understand the post, to be honest. It seems they wrote a book to announce that they will install a new logo and an updated design.
They are asking the community to get involved in the process, but don't exactly tell them how. Possibly because they aren't interested in their opinion, but just want to keep them busy to keep up the appearance that they truly care. I guess so that the backlash is smaller when they actually roll it out.
My personal opinion of stack overflow is, that they're past their summit. The community is toxic. Questions get closed or down voted for subjective reasons. I've been a big fan of especially the serverfault community. It was small enough to feel familiar, friendly, and questions were not met with a harsh tone. It felt like building a reputation there was worthwhile.
I don't feel like that anymore, and for a long time. The community also changed. When before, my correct answers would get accepted or at least upvoted, more and more often Questioners don't care anymore. That is not StackOverflows fault, but it still keeps me from investing the time to answer questions if I don't even get a thank you in return.
Now the community takes a friendly tone with this post, but it just feels like a layer of pretense, from an enterprise that doesn't care about anything than the money. It's fair enough, but not enough to really impact me.
I just don't care any more.
- cookiengineer 1y agoTake my upvote, I couldn't have said it better myself. No matter how much research and debugging you did in advance, no question can be formulated correctly. That is also partially SO's fault for making it impossible to link other things on the web, and the text length limit, and the trigger happy mods closing new threads etc. It's a wrongly designed game at this point that benefits monopolization of abuse of power instead of being a welcoming community.