Since Area 51 has been announced I was expecting feedback for it to go on meta.stackexchange.com. Instead we have been directed to post feedback here on meta.stackoverflow.com.
I thought that meta.stackoverflow.com was for StackOverflow material and that meta.stackexchange.com would be for the new StackExchange platform.
Why are we supposed to post StackExchange feedback here?
We're in the process of consolidating the two "brands". Stack Exchange is no longer a separate product: it's now the name for the entire network, of which Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User are the founding members.
Just today we merged http://blog.stackexchange.com and https://blog.stackoverflow.com so that we only have one blog for people to check. Going forward we want to do the same thing to meta.SO and meta.SE but it's a little tricky since there's more content at meta.SE.
Basically, blog.SO and meta.SO are named wrong, because they've always been about the entire network, not just stackoverflow.com. Since we can't change them without breaking existing links, we have to make both domains work.
It would be nice if reputation points from Meta:SE carry over to this site once they're merged. It doesn't matter much for my paltry numbers, but given the frustration that any transision brings, it'd be one less annoyance for SE 1.0 embracers. And one would think that the "credibility and trust" earned in that space is reasonably fungible to this one.
