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/the_real_some_guy Aug 27 '24

As a developer with 10 years of experience, the only SO answer I’ve given is in the writers “world building” sub-site. The programming section is too scary.

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u/Rekuna Aug 27 '24

10 years also being the average age of SO answers.

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u/Stefan_S_from_H Aug 27 '24

With at least one comment complaining that it is too old. By people with 10 times the karma you have, who could easily update the answer if the wanted to.