Timeline for answer to Community Engagement Across the Network: Focus for 2026 by Jon Ericson
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| Jan 26 at 8:03 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | The new comment timestamps are worse than just a bug in a new feature. They are a deliberate deception to increase engagement metrics, SE admitted as much. Which I suspect is also why they didn't fix it, even after substantial complaints. All the other broken, half-finished stuff comes on top of those deliberate changes. | |
| Jan 26 at 7:51 | comment | added | Lundin | @starball Then why isn't it used? | |
| Jan 26 at 7:48 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Lundin main-test.stackoverflow.dev (redirected to from dev.stackoverflow.com) | |
| Jan 26 at 7:40 | comment | added | Lundin | What I truly don't get is why there are no test servers. There's one thing to run an experiment to see how humans react, and another thing to run it to weed out the many bugs. The latter should be done at a test server. | |
| Jan 24 at 16:09 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @ColleenV And then the company would get that "collection of sites, all called Stack Overflow" thing they're going for, without upsetting everyone quite so much. | |
| Jan 24 at 13:54 | comment | added | ColleenV | I have advocated before for breaking SO into smaller communities with overlap (100 small fountains instead of one giant firehose.) and think it would make a lot of problems a little easier to solve. It would be easier for people to curate content, on-board new people, and for questions to get in front of the right person at the right time. There’s no such thing as an online “community” with a million people in it. It’s at best a federation of a lot of smaller groups. | |
| Jan 24 at 7:36 | history | edited | starballMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24 at 7:23 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | I like the idea of , and have advocated for chaos type organisations in the past. I'm not doing that this time around cause I'd like to see if SE's serious enough to invest in this kind of thing, and I'm a little burnt out with advocating for it with little result (and of course if it happened, I'd want in), A community first subteam would be a great idea but I'm not sure if we can get buy in from the company. This is one case though where being wrong about it would give me joy ;) | |
| Jan 23 at 23:36 | history | answered | Jon Ericson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |