In August 2023, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, announced Discussions at the WeAreDevelopers event. Discussions is a devoted house for the developer neighborhood to dive into significant dialogue and trade views on particular technical topics.
Discussions lets builders of all talent ranges have opinion-based conversations and share their very own insights. Discussions is totally different than the dialog historically suited to the Stack Overflow Q&A platform and creates a brand new venue and alternative for subjective conversations.
Discussions has now expanded past Collectives™ on Stack Overflow to all technical matters on Stack Overflow.
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We all know that when builders be taught one thing new or formalize a course for a venture, they usually flip to different builders and the technical neighborhood to hunt their recommendation and steering.
This expanded experiment creates house for a brand new sort of dialog on Stack Overflow so builders can be taught or share a brand new perspective exterior of the standard question-and-answer house.
Discussions offers a approach for builders to faucet into the collective data of the Stack Overflow neighborhood. Right here, builders can discover technical approaches, share totally different views, and make extra knowledgeable technical selections.
To get began with Discussions, merely choose the Discussions tab beneath Labs on the left sidebar:
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From right here, you’ll have the ability to entry current Discussions, create new ones, and filter by way of Stack Overflow tags.
Discussions is an experiment that we’re increasing, and we need to hear from you and the neighborhood to assist us information the way forward for these conversations.
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