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  • I see some SE sites there so - I think its part of the assimilation process Commented Oct 6 at 16:53
  • Ah, i see. so it's ads for other communites. I hate it, as someone who primarily uses the home page. Commented Oct 6 at 16:56
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    Well as they plan now - the other communities would be stack overflow branded as well, so its a more handy site switcher. I don't hate the idea, just that the branding aspects don't sit right with me. Commented Oct 6 at 17:01
  • Looking at it more it looks like they're even including chatrooms in it kinda? also calling it "join community", unless they have a new unreleased "community" feature incoming. very confusing. Commented Oct 6 at 17:03
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    "So... you're just going to shove AI assist front and center." given it's above all the other content, I suggest we call it the Stack OverBot. Commented Oct 6 at 17:06
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    To make the "i hate it" more constructive... what i hate is being more or less force-fed content i'm not looking for. I'm not looking to join more communities. I'm not looking for ai assist. Why is all of this more prominent than the actual reason people come here and why is none of this configurable I just want my watched questions highlighted, not shoehorned into the top of the question list. I want my ignored questions de-emphasized, even when they come up in a search that should include them. Simple things, that we used to have. Commented Oct 6 at 17:17
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    I really appreciate the reframe to constructive feedback Kevin. Someone asked about making community discovery dismissible and I think it's an absolutely valid option! We understand that your homepage should be all about you. 90% of our users visit SO to get unblocked and unfortunately AI can help unblock some of them faster. While I appreciate that most people on meta aren't here to simply get unblocked, we want to help those who are. You are right though. There is a bridge from getting your answer to becoming a member of our communities that isn't yet there. Commented Oct 6 at 18:09
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    @Piper I want to be able to switch communities easily, but I want 95% of the screen space and all the most immediate tools to concern the site I'm on. Switching to another SE site is a shift of focus. It isn't something I want to do continually, whereas refreshing the list of questions or viewing notifications for the site I'm on pretty much is. Commented Oct 6 at 20:20
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    That's a great point @cfr. I'm definitely seeing a pattern regarding navigation order throughout the feedback. One of the top pieces I'll take away Commented Oct 6 at 20:23
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    What happened to the concept of giving users control of their homepage design, @Piper? You're designing these elements more and more for non-users and hampering the normal usage of active users who just want to get stuff done - not ask a question. Commented Oct 6 at 22:32
  • @Catija why are users who ask a question "non-users" to you? Commented Oct 7 at 14:01
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    @Piper Why does that matter for the question I'm asking? Maybe it wasn't the best choice of wording but that's a distraction. My point is - what happened to the plan to make the site more customizable so that y'all don't have to worry so much about designing something that is useful to highly-active, engaged users who don't want to be asked "What do you want to learn today?" every time they go to the homepage? Y'all clearly are planning to cater to the bulk of the people accessing the site - fine... but how are you going to meet the needs of people here because they want to be. Commented Oct 7 at 15:03
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    The thing is, there's a difference between asking questions and learning. I'm not aware of any research that shows users come here to "learn". My understanding is, they come here to get unstuck and get back on their way to doing whatever they were doing before coming here. I understand this is "dressing for the job you want", but it puts the core community in an uncomfortable spot because the content on these platforms is not geared towards "learning". - it's geared towards problem solving. Commented Oct 7 at 15:08
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    I mean, i came here to practice my skills, is that coming here to learn? but i certainly wasn't here to see the content that was already here, i was here to create new content. If i recall correctly, in the past it was found that new users were our largest block of active answerers, i'm not sure how encouraging it is to future answerers to see a chatbot up front that provides answers from outside of SO. Commented Oct 7 at 15:21