Copy button added to Stack Overflow

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/414573/results-of-the-october-2025-community-asks-sprint-copy-button-for-code-blocks

11•exploraz•1h ago

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siva7•1h ago

Reads like from another time, a better time when not everything was ruled by tech and ai.

SirFatty•18m ago

2024?

snowfield•1h ago

This feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well

Isn't this a standard feature these days?

exploraz•41m ago

> This feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well

For some reason, the copy button won't even include a valid attribution source URL at all:

  // Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a
  // Posted by ...

squigz•16m ago

I just tested it. Yes it does?

Oops wait no URL blindness just kicked in. You're right, that absolutely is not valid :)

immibis•53m ago

Great news. This makes up for all that bad moderation, forced AI stuff, bad redesigns, and genocide support.

jig_forty•51m ago

Genocide support? That must be an exaggeration.

moralestapia•53m ago

Lame.

I can't wait 'til the site is dead, they have the worst community on the planet, even worse than Reddit and [REDACTED].

Worst thing is they saw this coming and doubled down on what everyone was telling them was the cause of trouble. There were memes out of it.

Classic example of product people leaving and marketing ones taking the helm.

BinaryIgor•50m ago

In some ways Stack Overflow feels dated, but in some ways I hope it will go on; I still often prefer responses found there from the AI's. It also brings the recurring theme of what the LLMs will be trained on when people create less and less content. But I guess some people will always, and it might be enough

linhns•41m ago

My suggestion: works on a frecency-based sort algorithm to display good recent answer above outdated one. StackOverflow is still good, just that you have to scroll a bit nowadays.

falcor84•2m ago

I think it's actually a really funny and naive assumption that had led them to having an "accepted answer" at all. For a q&a platform that focuses so much on avoiding duplicates, thinking that the first person to ask a particular type of question is an authority not just on accepting an answer at that point in time, but to have it be accepted forever - it just doesn't make any sense.

sys_64738•13m ago

Isn't AI doing this efficiently already in gemini?

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