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| Dec 5, 2025 at 15:50 | comment | added | Catija | @user400654 I'm talking about the homepage of SO, which is the page the answer's screenshot shows. | |
| Dec 4, 2025 at 17:48 | comment | added | user400654 | Are we talking about the same page? I’m talking about the page you get when you click on ai assist, | |
| Dec 4, 2025 at 17:37 | comment | added | Catija | @user400654 Maybe I'm misunderstanding. The position of the Ask button (on SO) seems to be fixed in the upper right corner (full screen layout) such that when the page scrolls down, the button scrolls away, out of view. This contrasts with the top bar, which floats so that it's always visible. Ash's comment seems to state that the ask button is always there at the top right of the screen and it never scrolls away, much like the top bar. But as far as I can tell, that's not the case. When I scroll down, there is no ask button on the page any more. | |
| Dec 4, 2025 at 0:31 | comment | added | user400654 | @Catija as far as i can tell, it does indeed not scroll, but only because the whole page doesn't scroll... only the middle section does. Once below a certain window width, the ask question button goes away entirely (unless i'm missing it somewhere,) but otherwise it sits stuck at the top right in a column by itself. If i wasn't looking for it, i wouldn't have recognized it as a button. | |
| Dec 4, 2025 at 0:01 | comment | added | Catija | @AshZade The Ask button doesn't scroll. Maybe that's in a design y'all are developing but I don't see it hovering as I scroll the page down. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 23:24 | comment | added | Ash Zade Staff | I’m not sure what we can say to convince you that we don’t want less questions posted. We have a prompt after every response in AI Assist to post one if the response doesn’t help. We have an Ask Question button at the top right of the screen at all times, even if you scroll. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 19:12 | comment | added | SPArcheon | see previous comment @Catija. Feel free to defend the "poor billionaire company" as you wish, but I think it is quite clear to anyone who don't refuse evidence what is given focus on the new design and what is pushed to the side. A small clue: users tend to look at the center of the screen first. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 16:23 | comment | added | Catija | I think people have a lot of strong feelings about this and that's valid. I think that claiming that they are "hiding the Ask Button" while it's clearly visible in your own screenshot essentially invalidates everything you're saying in this post, meaning you're making yourself out to be unreasonable. If that's the choice you want to make, go for it - but you're not doing yourself any favors. Lundin's answer makes an argument by showing before/after, even if it had the AI Assist do it. It's a fair question and analysis without making these hyperbolic statements. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 16:12 | comment | added | SPArcheon | @Catija claiming that was not true back then, claiming it is not true now. Picture me surprised not. Riddle me Catija, how comes Lundin came to the same conclusion - " the button must be hidden away out in the periphery along with the blog spam, to ensure that I ask my question to the AI rather than use the site as intended. " ? I suggest you go downvoting that too. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 16:07 | comment | added | Catija | Like... I get disliking the tool but the Ask Question button hasn't moved. The box is obnoxious and patronizing in how it's addressing the user but it's not in any way requiring you to use the tool before asking and the company hasn't even moved, let alone hidden, the ask question button. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 15:55 | history | answered | SPArcheon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |