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Cake day: June 26th, 2024

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  • You’re kind of not really engaging with me in good faith, but I’ll bite anyways.

    The fact you didn’t kill yourself, frankly, proves nothing. Not because you’re a rando, but because there’s no control. That’s why I said you need to prove that social media is reducing teen suicides, compared to the time before social media.

    Secondly, it’s debatable whether platforms like SO, forums and Reddit are actually social media, or merely link aggregators and forums. Those sites provide their content for logged-out users anyways, so children can still view them regardless.










  • From the recent changes it’s obvious what they want to achieve. They want to abandon the traditional Q&A model in favour of a Reddit style forum. This is in line with the recent addition of opinion based questions, as well as the upcoming removal of close votes and review queues.

    The UI itself is awful, the dark mode is way too dark, and the answers look too similar to the comments around them (just like on Reddit), so it’s difficult to scan the page for answers. Why they decided that all comments must be expanded by default is beyond me, it takes up so much vertical space for something so irrelevant. The meta info on answers (score, accepted, poster, etc) is not prominent enough. The new design uses too little colour.

    This question shows the problem quite well: https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-processing-an-unsorted-array

    Did you notice Daniel Fischer’s answer?

    Tap for spoiler

    I don’t think the new design is ugly per se, it’s just less usable and less visually distinctive…