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[ICON REQUEST]: Stackoverflow
I have searched through the issues and didn't find my problem.
- [X] Confirm
About the icon
I think it's self-explanitory 😂
Links and sources
https://stackoverflow.com https://stackoverflow.design/brand/logo/ https://fontawesome.com/icons/stack-overflow?s=brands
Additional information
This was requested in #79 but @Thomas-Boi said to split into individual issues
I think stackoverflow is an edge case. I'm not sure if this is compliant to this projects purpose since it's a community and not a technology or development tool in first place.
There are already non-development tools in the project, like linkedin and twitter. Stackoverflow is more dev related than either of those.
It's true that linkedin in twitter are already in this project, but if you follow this discussion https://github.com/devicons/devicon/discussions/353 you'll see that "Social media platforms" are on the "not allowed" list. Twitter and LinkedIn are "old" icons from early age of this project. We decided to not remove them in terms of backwards compatibility but we probably would not add twitter, linkedin or facebook today.
I'd personally consider stackoverflow a development tool since its primary purpose has to do with code. While it is an edge case, I think it makes sense to include. There's also not really a downside to including it.
I think this should be included as an edge case, it's either a community or a tool for development depending on what perspective you look at it from.
One perspective for example, their teams service definitely falls under a development tool.
My opinion is, since Stack Overflow provide a commercial Teams version (used at work by people) I would be tempted to say that it belongs here.
But knowing that the icon / logo is already added in Font Awesome (Free & Paid versions), and nowadays almost everyone load Font Awesome in their website, so it's a bit of a "duplicate".
I would be interested to know in which context you want to use the icon (and if you have or not Font Awesome also on your website).
Additionally you can add custom SVG icons into Devicon and build the font, check these links:
- https://github.com/devicons/devicon/wiki/How-We-Create-The-Icons
- https://github.com/devicons/devicon#go-build-yourself
I agree it's a bit of an edgecase, however I think StackOverflow should count as a developer tool. I don't see which other usecases there are for it besides for development help.
Also, we mustn't confuse StackOverflow with StackExchange. StackExchange is the company, which hosts many different forums, the most popular of which is StackOverflow which they describe as Stack Overflow Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers.
ref: https://stackexchange.com/sites
All this said I believe forums in general should be excluded, but I believe we should make an exception for household names like StackOverflow, which lives in every developers search history.
Well, StackOverflow is for all kinds of questions related to programming, so I don't see an issue to add it to Devicon. It is very popular and known across the web, too.
