If I’m not mistaken, the general feeling is that Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange has worked well, on the technical/platform level. The major problem with it, from most people’s POV (among members of this project, anyway), has been how the community has lost their voice over the platform over time.
So, we are aiming to rebuild what works about Stack Exchange - that is, most of it [1] [2] (IMO). The most significant change should be true community governance [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8].
Then comes the various ideas and proposals that people have been bringing up over a couple of channels. Some are very relevant improvements, but these are mainly of incremental nature (or should be, the way I personally see it).
TODO: paste relevant transcripts here; unless of course we manage to import the content from Discord to this Forum (I’ll be working with @bertieb on this).