| We would love to change how SO gets advertised. But we aren't in control of it, and the truth seems to be counterproductive to having a site that makes money from ad revenue. I recommend looking for alternatives, because this problem can't really be fixed and the site owners seem intent on making it worse. I personally use and recommend (and am a moderator at, full disclosure) Codidact Software: https://software.codidact.com/ . But at Codidact we're still fundamentally using the same "Q&A site" (I don't think this means the same thing you appear to think it means) model . We just have proper community involvement (the site is owned by a non-profit foundation and committed to community sovereignty; see https://codidact.org/), new site software, and newly conceived site scope. > My suggestion would be to have two sites, one that is actually a general Q&A site like what everyone is after, the other is the kind of knowledge repository that SO wants to be. The problem is that there are already countless sites "like what everyone is after". If you try to split a Q&A site like Stack Overflow that way without changing the actual UI, the problem just repeats itself: people try to use the knowledge repository part as if it were yet another traditional forum. And it turns out, people often think they're after that model, then get fed up with it over time. I think an idea like yours can be done, but it would require radically different site software. (In early 2023 - I think - I kept myself busy with contemplating a design for exactly this, but I didn't really write anything down.) |