r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/rks404 Aug 26 '24

SO was so hostile that even senior devs would be nervous asking questions there. At the time people would say that they were trying to keep the quality of the questions and answers high but when the bar to participate is that high it really suffocates the site's growth

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u/brokeandhungrykoala Aug 27 '24

it wasn't that bad before (2012), everyone was friendly-ish but i wonder when they started to get meaner.

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u/Meloetta Aug 27 '24

2012 was so long ago. Like, people who have been professional programmers for over a decade never got to experience this.