A two-part episode: Partly one, Ben chats with pal of the present and senior software program engineer Kyle Mitofsky about Staging Floor, a non-public house inside Stack Overflow the place new customers can obtain steerage from skilled customers earlier than their query is posted. Partly two, Ben talks to Stack Overflow moderator Spevacus, who participated within the beta of Staging Floor. They discuss why we wished to construct a safer asking expertise for brand spanking new customers, the optimistic suggestions we’ve gotten from the group to date, and the challenges of constructing Staging Floor inside the present Stack Overflow structure.
