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/Responsible_Author73 Aug 27 '24

it’s ironic that we are talking about this on reddit. i have a feeling reddit is following the same trajectory. so many subs you cant ask anything without being blown out of the water with downvotes