Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote: The complex…
You can tell by the fact that Covid has a massive influx into tech and the platform rapidly collapsed at that time.
If your question was good it would go unanswered because a lot of pros abandoned the platform, if you were new it was too technical, and if you were junior your question was marked as a dupe and you were told to look at a 12 year old question from an ancient version of a library that’s not supported.
Sometimes someone would correct an old post to update it, but because it would never get seen they’d never bubble up to replace the comically old answers.
They burned the candle at both ends by not being good for newbs or experienced devs.
Looks like it was already on a long-term decline, AI just threw it off a cliff. It was likely ripe for an alternative.
It got pretty toxic
You can tell by the fact that Covid has a massive influx into tech and the platform rapidly collapsed at that time.
If your question was good it would go unanswered because a lot of pros abandoned the platform, if you were new it was too technical, and if you were junior your question was marked as a dupe and you were told to look at a 12 year old question from an ancient version of a library that’s not supported.
Sometimes someone would correct an old post to update it, but because it would never get seen they’d never bubble up to replace the comically old answers.
They burned the candle at both ends by not being good for newbs or experienced devs.