Anyone care to explain to me what is mean by "safe place"? Was it not safe before? Are Q&A platforms generally known to be unsafe to post on? Genuinely curious. It's such a peculiar choice of words it certainly has intrigued my senses.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion...
Why SO thinks this is the biggest problem they should be solving, or why it took four years to roll out, is beyond me; for one, I can't ever recall discussing or caring about anybody's genitals or lack thereof when posting coding Q&As.
What does it actually mean? Yeah, probably nothing. In fact as others say it might ironically actually not be true (an 'unsafe place', 'hostile to newcomers') in SO's case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942