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StackOverflow: We will be retiring the Beta site shortly... (web.archive.org)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by artwork@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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First, thank you for all of the feedback - your thoughts are appreciated and have significantly impacted the decisions that we’ve made about how we move forward.

TL;DR - We will be retiring the beta site shortly and will be removing the button to get to it and ceasing support for it.

We will not be migrating the unified posting experience to the main site. Not migrating the unified experience to the main site will obviate the need to solve the issue around the conversion of comments and answers to “replies”, because that was tied to this unified post experience.

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Preview of the button "Beta"

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 13 points 6 days ago

I don't have a strong opinion on the beta site, but I do know that they need to stop listening to the exact people that killed their site (or allowed it to be killed by AI at least).

Actually they should have stopped listening to them a decade ago. Now is way too late.

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What was the beta site? Why did they retire it? Why haven't I heared of it before? Is it because stackoverflow is agonizing?

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

One month ago, I posted a comment with screenshots and my opinion. It also links ot the official Stack Overflow resources regarding it.

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[–] artwork@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Preview of the button "Beta"

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 6 days ago

So site will remain mostly the beautiful jank it always was. Fantastic!

But some points of the announcement seem dubious. At least I got the impression they're not ditching all the ideas of the beta, but it didn't sound clear to me what they'd keep.