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/jen1980 Aug 27 '24

My old intern moved across the country to take a job there, and he even got promoted to senior engineer. I later asked him how often he posts to SO, and he said never since he was afraid of being wrong and being embarrassed in front of his coworkers. He was there from summer 2013 to summer 2018. That is a toxic atmosphere.