An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.
Our Community Products teams continue to be focused on the pain points and tasks developers want to accomplish every day when they visit Stack Overflow. We are passionate about helping developers learn, share, and grow in their careers, and it has been exciting to watch some experimentation and discovery efforts come to life over the last quarter. Highlights from this last quarter include:
As we look forward to the new year, we are eager to expand Stack Overflow to meet the diverse needs of developers around the world. In many ways, we feel we’re just scratching the surface, and there’s so much opportunity to do more. While there have been some distinct experimental features added to the platform, such as Collectives and Discussions, Q&A continues to be the primary experience. It’s no secret – we care deeply about Q&A! It’s been a cornerstone in helping the world of developers build the world around us! But Q&A is only one mode for learning and creating, and cataloguing knowledge. Stack Overflow must be accessible to all and support different learning needs, modes, and preferences. This year, our product teams will be leaning into faster learning, experimentation, testing out new experiences, and exploring ways in which we can support every developer.
For the remainder of this quarter, we continue our work on improving core Q&A flows to help make asking, answering, and contributing to knowledge easier for everyone. Some things you can expect to see over the next couple of months:
- Iteration and expansion of Question Assistant
- Improving Ask and Answer flows
- Allowing more users to contribute through actions such as commenting and voting
- Better user to content matching
- Further testing to help activate new users
- And lastly, an extended Community Asks Sprint to make up for a deferred round that landed near the holidays
And we’ve got a lot more queued up than those things – but for more on that, you’ll have to stay tuned!
As always, we’re excited to share findings as we go and value your input along the way. If you’d like to provide your input, we invite you to opt into our user research list.