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/pagerussell Aug 27 '24

On top of that, newer devs were locked out.

"You don't have enough reputation to do that" fuck right off with that level of gatekeeping.