The team behind Collectives™ on Stack Overflow has been hard at work implementing new ways to build community and help you stay more connected while you share knowledge about the technologies you use most.
Check out below to see what the team’s been up to over the last few months:
What’s New?:
Cellular Growth Collective
In late September 2023, we launched our latest collective: Cellular Growth. Cellular Growth is a collective for builders who need to share their information and study extra about Android and iOS.
You’ll be able to be part of the Cellular Growth Collective and take a look at the complete listing of Collectives to affix right here.
Discussions
Discussions is a brand new function that lets customers of all talent ranges have open-ended discussions, the type of subjective dialog that isn’t proper for conventional Stack Overflow Q&A. It’s yet another method customers can faucet into the collective information of the group to discover completely different technical approaches and trade-offs, share views on present initiatives, make extra knowledgeable structure choices, and extra.
Be taught extra and be part of all of the Discussions right here.
All Discussions Touchdown Web page
We’ve launched a new web page that teams collectively all Discussions happening on collectives. Stack Overflow customers can simply entry all Discussions below the Labs part on the left sidebar. Take a look at the pictures beneath for extra data.
Please be aware that this screenshot consists of design ideas for the left navigation toolbar, which aren’t but launched on the general public platform. Moreover, the “Begin a dialogue” button will not be but launched.
Collections
In August 2023, we launched Collections in all collectives. A set is an inventory of content material from Stack Overflow (questions, solutions, and articles) gathered round a particular theme. Collections are designed to assist collective members simply uncover and collaboratively construct upon high-quality content material a few particular topic space.
Be taught extra about Collections right here.
Exercise Indicator
In October 2023, we launched a number of design updates to assist collective members see when new posts are shared in collectives. Members can now simply see when there’s new exercise in discussions, articles, collections, and bulletins. Take a look at the picture beneath to study extra.
Sorting Posts and Replies
Inside Discussions, members of the collective can now simply type each posts and replies by creation date, newest exercise, or voting rating. Take a look at the picture beneath to study extra.
What’s next?:
Our group can be trying into new methods to extra simply uncover content material from collectives and discover extra methods to interact customers of all talent ranges to have open-ended conversations that aren’t proper for conventional Stack Overflow Q&A. Keep tuned for extra updates!
