Buried in there is an announcement [1] that they're going to start accepting documentation and particularly examples of API usage, not just Q&A.<p>It seems like a good place to put stuff that isn't a question.<p>[1] <a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-documentation-a-proposed-expansion-of-stack-overflow" rel="nofollow">http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-d...</a>
Names don't matter much. As long as they still have a community willing to shame users for asking a question vaguely similar to one that was asked a few years earlier, then it's all good with me.
Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes!<p>Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business.<p>I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questions/answers that are no longer relevant or just plain wrong. I think the amount of cruft they're going to deal with in the next 10 years is going to be HUGE.
Reading between the lines, it seems to confirm a change in business model.
To paraphrase: "Turns out software for running Q&A sites isn't that hot a property, but having access to a large part of all the world's programmers is"
This will probably get downvoted into oblivion but ...<p>I have a kind of love hate relationship with SO.<p>I love that I get answers. I hate that I spend so much time writing answers and then see SO make bank from my work.<p>I've probably spent over 1000 hours writing answers on SO. Most of that time is spent writing working samples for answers. In fact <a href="http://webglfundamentals.org" rel="nofollow">http://webglfundamentals.org</a> was started because of answers I wrote on SO where it they seemed too long for SO.<p>But, now there's this feeling of conflict where for every answer I have on webglfundamentals.org I really just want to paste a link to the article there on SO when it's relevent. But, SO frowns on that. So, I have to basically give SO all my content and work for free [or ignore it]. I supposedly get some kind of benefit from their gamification rep which I can show on my resume or something but conversely it feels like a treadmill that I must keep running on or lose my rep. It's become an unpaid responsibility.<p>To be clear it's not just webglfundamentals.org. It's any tech blog post period. I feel like an SO gets more popular they just suck up all content. Why write anything tech on my blog when 99% of the people looking for an answer will go to SO first? So it's become a negative influence for me in a way. Because no one is going to look anywhere but SO I feel less compelled to write tech articles.<p>Sorry for the rant. Maybe there's a solution? Maybe I've just got a bad POV. Like I said I certainly appreciate the other answers. Random brainfart, maybe like Youtube they should pay contributors? Yea, that will never work but something just feels wrong to me at moment. Also it isn't about the money really. I can't really put my finger on it.
I guess I don't really understand this at least with respect to bothering to change the name. I'd try to draw a parallel to what Google did in becoming Alphabet but that doesn't seem to be a congruent situation.<p>The organization of the company around developers as core users makes sense. Not sure if a name change is supposed to do much for the average developer in caring about their product offerings more or less.
Experts Exchange was the SO before SO and it was so bad, so bad that I can imagine it was one of the reasons SO was built in the first place. When the Exchange name appeared I cringed because it always reminded me of the worst QA UX in history, sitting on IRC was better. Glad it went away.
I was always confused by the difference between the two, even thought they might be different entities. This will minimize confusion in the future, glad to see the change.
IMO Stack Exchange was more useful before it had moderators.<p>You could even ask questions like 'Do you know a useful library for this problem' without having it closed.
Interesting, I hadn't even noticed it renamed... I always kept calling it stackoverflow. I noticed the name "exchange" in URLs, but thought that was related to sub-stackoverflows like "math"<p>EDIT: After reading the article more properly I see it's about company name, not website name. Still, not deleting my comment as it exemplifies the confusion the naming gave
Does this mean I can get a proper programming-centric Stack Overflow app for my phone now? I installed the Stack Exchange app thinking it would be a fun way to see random programming questions now and then. Instead, 99% of the time it's questions like, "Was the Emperor always a Sith".
The logo change was predicted in 2012.<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/Ak3nl" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/Ak3nl</a>