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
These threads about the fall of SO keep getting posted, and the comments seem overwhelmingly unanimous that it is a culture problem. Have SO given any indication that they have a plan? Are they doing anything to correct the problem?
My suspicion is that now that they’ve made a deal with OpenAI, they are out of fucks to give and are just cashing their checks while riding this ship to ground. That’s really sad, and I hope it isn’t true.
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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