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| Dec 24, 2024 at 20:16 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Refreshing to find someone on the internet who knows what he is talking about. <= That right there is what made SO/SE appeal to me in the first place-filtering out the noise and getting more signal. I'll have an answer later on, but I want to give a hearty pat on the back to a solidly grounded answer. | |
| Dec 23, 2024 at 17:52 | comment | added | V2Blast StaffMod | Yeah. I don't think everyone agrees on or even has the answer for what needs to change/how Stack needs to adapt, but I think this accurately identifies the identity crisis Stack has found itself in for several years. It needs to adapt, but then the question becomes how it should adapt. The community generally agrees that sticking LLMs/AI where they're not wanted is not the way, but Stack still needs to figure out what to do to bring people back in. Regaining the community's trust is one part of the puzzle, but not the only part. | |
| Dec 14, 2024 at 16:41 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @NoDataDumpNoContribution Oh absolutely -- as I said, I myself definitely don't have the answers. And as far as "home for programmers", I just meant that in the sense of "a place most programmers regularly visit", nothing else implied. | |
| Dec 14, 2024 at 16:33 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | I fully agree that 2025 is different from 2008 but I don't think it means we all agree on how to build SO new. Being a home for programmers for example sounds more like a social network (Instagram for programmers?). It might be like starting completely new. | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 10:48 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @ꓢPArcheon Fair enough. I don't even know it myself, and chances are that I'm not gonna like it either. But what's more important to me is that whatever we do, we do it for the right reasons, and that we can honestly explain those reasons. | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 10:27 | comment | added | ꓢPArcheon | I appreciate the answer but I will refrain from voting in either direction because while I agree that something must change you didn't actually say WHAT should be hammered and WHAT should we changed, so I can't really say if we agree on that too. | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 9:55 | comment | added | user152859 | As always with your answers, it was a pleasure to read and actually helped me a lot towards writing my own answer. Huge thanks!! | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 9:31 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @Lundin I don't recall that, but that doesn't mean you're wrong -- we've had many initiatives over the years. But the controversy about what questions are too simple existed pretty much from the beginning. Jeff and Joel discussed that in podcast 58 (the actual audio isn't there anymore, but it's archived on the IA) -- the origin of the infamous How do I move the turtle in LOGO question. | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 9:19 | comment | added | Lundin | @balpha From what I remember this initiative to drop "minimum knowledge required" came from the company and CMs, shog9 & friends, around year 2014. I'm not sure if that was grounded in requests from the actual users of the site or not. At any rate, programmer to programmer interaction is a quite different site goal from one based on teacher to student interaction. | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 9:11 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @Lundin Which part do you not agree with? The impression you're describing sounds more like you've observed a change in user behavior, rather than to the platform itself. Doesn't that confirm what I'm writing about new generations of programmers and different ways of learning? | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 8:58 | comment | added | Lundin | I'm not sure I agree, there's been a notable scope shift over the years. For example the site (SO) was never originally meant to be a place where you learnt programming from scratch - rather it was meant to be a place where established ("professional or enthusiast") programmers helped each other. Kind of with the more or less explicit goal to replace CodeProject. Then mid 2010s somewhere it was suddenly an interactive programming tutorial site... which wasn't what the oldest users signed up for. From there it all lost focus more and more, to the point where the site is losing purpose. | |
| Dec 13, 2024 at 0:26 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @balpha Indeed, it does. | |
| Dec 12, 2024 at 23:30 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Sledgehammer, Larkin Poe style youtu.be/sL0QYYqz5D8 | |
| Dec 12, 2024 at 22:00 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @AdamLear And that includes the elephant, I assume. | |
| Dec 12, 2024 at 21:47 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | FWIW, I feel exactly the same way. | |
| Dec 12, 2024 at 19:48 | comment | added | Machavity | He just wants to be sledgehammer | |
| Dec 12, 2024 at 19:30 | history | edited | starballMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Dec 12, 2024 at 19:22 | history | answered | balphaStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |