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Copy button added to Stack Overflow

Copy button added to Stack Overflow

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·November 8, 2025
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linhns

My suggestion: works on a frecency-based sort algorithm to display good recent answer above outdated one. StackOverflow is still good, just that you have to scroll a bit nowadays.

falcor84

I think it's actually a really funny and naive assumption that had led them to having an "accepted answer" at all. For a q&a platform that focuses so much on avoiding duplicates, thinking that the first person to ask a particular type of question is an authority not just on accepting an answer at that point in time, but to have it be accepted forever - it just doesn't make any sense.

jl6

Some topics are definitely more susceptible to rot than others. Questions like “how do I do X on Ubuntu” tend to have a lot of outdated (yet accepted) answers from a decade ago. There have been a lot of Ubuntu releases since then, with a lot of cumulative changes, and tagging questions as release-specific isn’t universal or reliable.

pwdisswordfishy

Never mind that "how do I do X on Ubuntu" was never a programming question in the first place.

ChrisMarshallNY

You can change the accepted answer after the fact.

I've done that. I like to avoid it, if I can, because the original accepted submitter gets a demerit.

BinaryIgor

In some ways Stack Overflow feels dated, but in some ways I hope it will go on; I still often prefer responses found there from the AI's. It also brings the recurring theme of what the LLMs will be trained on when people create less and less content. But I guess some people will always, and it might be enough

snowfield

This feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well

Isn't this a standard feature these days?

exploraz

> This feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well

For some reason, the copy button won't even include a valid attribution source URL at all:

  // Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a
  // Posted by ...

squigz

I just tested it. Yes it does?

Oops wait no URL blindness just kicked in. You're right, that absolutely is not valid :)

sys_64738

Isn't AI doing this efficiently already in gemini?

siva7

Reads like from another time, a better time when not everything was ruled by tech and ai.

SirFatty

2024?

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immibis

Great news. This makes up for all that bad moderation, forced AI stuff, bad redesigns, and genocide support.

jig_forty

Genocide support? That must be an exaggeration.

moralestapia

Lame.

I can't wait 'til the site is dead, they have the worst community on the planet, even worse than Reddit and [REDACTED].

Worst thing is they saw this coming and doubled down on what everyone was telling them was the cause of trouble. There were memes out of it.

Classic example of product people leaving and marketing ones taking the helm.

ChrisMarshallNY

> worst community on the planet

I wouldn't say that, but it is a pretty annoying community, and one that I'm happy to leave behind, in favor of LLMs.

I think you may be right about the "doubling down." The Meta discussions seemed to get a lot nastier, as time went on. Might have something to do with centrists being driven out by zealots. Happens all the time, especially in communities in crisis.