Recap
What’s new?
Yesterday Stack Change introduced the upcoming launch of a brand new Immediate Design website. To say the group disliked the concept
could be an understatement. The group has identified that this will probably be extremely area of interest, with very quick time period solutions as a result of
fashions replace continually. There are additionally considerations that this can basically turn out to be a “write my immediate” (as an alternative of “write my code”)
website.
I agree with all of these considerations.
Additionally hidden on this announcement is one other announcement. Stack Change is altering their methodology of launching new websites. That is
one thing that ought to have it is personal announcement. It is a large deal and the group has been asking for enhancements to the
Space 51 incubator website for a decade. Sadly, the brand new methodology is to utterly put off all the work that Space 51
does – constructing a group, setting intitial questions, serving to to set scope, making certain there’s an viewers for the subject – and
as an alternative launching with a “Neighborhood Stakeholders” group that may do the work in both a non-public Stack Overflow for Groups occasion
or a learn solely chatroom.
Each of these choices solely exclude folks that will need to take part however haven’t got entry. It provides limitations that do not exist
on Space 51.
My ideas
The announcement units a launch date of July 26 for this new website. That is the day earlier than the CEO talks at
WeAreDevelopers World Congress. A venure the place the corporate has been promising a significant AI announcement for months. This new website,
mixed with the formatting assistant failure from final week, is beginning to present clearly what the corporate needs to do right here.
I discussed in my final publish that I used to be changing into extra pesimistic that this strike would not finish with resignations.
That continues to carry true. I additionally talked about that Stack Exchanges appears to be keeping track of the Reddit strike –
first with the blackouts, then with the John Oliver protests and at the moment with the NSFW toggles to forestall advertisements. Final evening,
Reddit began eradicating moderators consequently.
With the dearth of updates and communication from Stack Change to the moderators and curators within the final week, I can not assist however
assume that one thing related is being mentioned at Stack Change. Time will inform, however my feeling is that Stack Change goes
to plow forward with GenAI content material on their platform. They’ll burn 15 years of belief and high quality content material and they’re going
to do with no matter what the group needs. In the event that they group protests, they are going to be proven the door.
Clearly, I am nonetheless fairly pesimistic about all of this.
