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slop overflow incoming
https://beta.stackoverflow.com/

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[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The AI chat right at the top of page is very reassuring

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NGram@piefed.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago

Slop overflow, for when the slop machine can't lie to you well enough

[–] PM_ME_SOMETHING@fedinsfw.app 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The company that bought SO years ago has been making a bunch of shitty decisions since they bought it. Then LLMs happened and traffic continued to decline, and they been panicking since. This redesign is half baked at best and is being pretty heavily rejected by the community they have left.

Personally I'd start checking out alternatives, as the company is starting to lean pretty far into the Ai thing. I'd recommend looking at https://software.codidact.com/

[–] morto@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

When they close, it will be a huge loss of information in the internet...

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've poisoned all my content there, bit by bit and don't plan on coming back.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But backed it up and plan on posting it somewhere else?

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No. How would I post questions and answers?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

But it's Stack Overflow, not Reddit...

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it's the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.

Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn't make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.