The logo change was predicted in 2012.
Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
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#22CLOSED for being off-topic!
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#23I 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. 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.
The closest example I can probably give is that of Basecamp. They were formerly known as 37signals, and IIRC, they changed their name to Basecamp because it's their most well-known product, among other reasons.
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#24Experts 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 still remember this "trick", where you just had to go at the extreme bottom of the page to see the comments that were hidden only a few scrolls above. Never understood why. Despite this trick, I don't remember finding any solution to my issues on this website.
This is actually a function built in by Google originally to help newspapers etc. It's called "first page free". News sites want their content to be indexed by Google so they can get search traffic, however, Google does not want to send users to a login page, so they compromised Google will index content that is normally blocked by a pay wall in exchange the publication is required to show the full content of that page to any visitor from Google. If you try navigating to another set of answers it will probably require to you login unless you go back to Google and search for it.
Source: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3863/how-does-...
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#25Experts 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.
Jeff Atwood agrees with you about Experts Exchange, and wrote an article about it.
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#26Names 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.
Either make a post on meta about the problem and provide a solution if you have on how to fix it OR make your own SO with your own rules. I'm really tired of seeing these off topic (whining) comments whenever SO comes up. It's useless and doesn't add anything to the discussion here.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, it was a lot of forums, mailing lists, and Planet Source Code.
To this day, mailing lists remain the authoritative sources for technical problems beyond the cursory.
I found mailing lists to be the most annoying, prehistoric and bizarre way of getting help for anything other than dying...
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#28Reading 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"
Serious question - do many people here actually use anything other than Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Power User?
I occasionally get and click on a Google result for the photography stack exchange, but I've rarely clicked on any results for the other Exchange sites for my non-technical searches.
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#29Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. 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.
I have to resort to SO a couple of times a month, so before SO (and other such) it was 95% the same as it is now.
I probably would have found much more use for it in my first year or so as a programmer, but at least from my own experience, once I had familiarity with my tools and libraries, the kind of problems that require digging on the internet aren't the kind easily put into bite-sized Q&A.
Maybe it's different for people who did start with SO available; perhaps they're saving their cognitive load by outsourcing various snippets of information to SO, and I only internalised them because SO wasn't available.
That said, it IS good for more open-ended historical or state-of-the-art type questions; "why did language X adopt this paradigm?" or "how do people producing commercial software go about supporting multiple graphics hardware today?" kind of questions. If I get lucky, there are a handful of people with a real depth of knowledge who can give a valuable overview and insight, but those are a long way from the typical SO question.
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#30Reading 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"
Serious question - do many people here actually use anything other than Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Power User? I occasionally get and click on a Google result for the photography stack exchange, but I've rarely clicked on any results for the other Exchange sites for my non-technical searches.
Depends on the technology. If you use AIX or DB2, you can often only find answers on other sites, because most of the posters are using more popular open-source / free tech like Linux or MySQL.