Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

Posted by 9190stekene

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  2. They should put it all on Discord, so no one can find it and search for it, just like all the others have done

  4. I can help stack overflow just as much as they helped me: By making a joke about their approach.

  6. Ai is quickly replacing the easiest stack overflowable solutioned questions and able to dynamically adjust it per use case pretty accurately.  Stack overflow still has some use but AI is gonna aggregate the hell out of help sites.

  7. I wonder if LLMs will lead to calcification of languages. Humans contributing on stack overflow (read: talking to each other) means language popularity can be dynamic – if a new language or way of doing things is better, it will generate more conversation and learning.

    But if a model is trained on all that and replaces it, then there is no dynamism. Instead the LLM will limit us to the conversation and solutions of 10 years ago. It reminds me of the replacement of Greek philosophy with scholasticism, in which “Aristotle was right” was dogma for centuries during the medieval era. Writing and thought replaced with copying and memorization.

  8. I found that many questions get either no answer or snippy / condescending ones. People are turned off.

  9. That’s what happens when you have a community policy that encourages pretentious answers. Imagine being new to programming and asking “how do I write a for loop”, and immediately being scoped out by some nerd because it’s a duplicate question.

    And then there’s the stupid cookie banner that always pops up + the outdated UI. Not sure what they expected. By the time your product gets memed on for being rude & useless, it’s over.

  10. A random plot isn’t “data is beautiful”. In fact it kind of looks like shit.

  11. First – AI.

    Second – stackoverflow is hostile to people asking questions.

    Last ~5 questions I asked I didn’t get any answers, got downvoted without any explanation and some questions were closed without any explanation why.

    This really discourages asking questions, I spent considerable time trying to craft the question, just got shut down without explanation.

    The community used to be helpful, now it just toxic.

  12. Bad news for developers? It might just mean they are finding answers in other places.

  13. This isn’t even traffic graph, but Q$A count graph.

    Isn’t that what they want that people search for already answered questions before they ask themselves? Stands to reason number of new questions should drop.

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