sanitation@lemmy.today to Programming@programming.dev · 2 months agoStack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peakppc.landexternal-linkmessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down12
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkStack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peakppc.landsanitation@lemmy.today to Programming@programming.dev · 2 months agomessage-square61linkfedilink
minus-squareZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·2 months agoImagine being such a bad website, you’re basically the only thing AI actually took down.
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 months agoSO was in decline before AI. AI just accelerated the process. The shit moderation is what took it down.
minus-squareReginald_T_Biter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoI only became a dev 5 years ago its incredibly restrictive. They dug their own grave with their moderation.
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoAbsolutely I’ve used it many times as a lurker, and I would have loved to add answers buy it was just not usable for that
minus-squareReginald_T_Biter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoSeems like unless you can come up with a novel question, you basically cant vote or comment. So I guess… just not interact?
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoAI took down a fuck load of independent/small websites by bombarding them with millions of connections for scraping and by circumventing user traffic to them
minus-squareNewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoAI didn’t take it down. Stack overflow was on the way out way before.
Imagine being such a bad website, you’re basically the only thing AI actually took down.
SO was in decline before AI. AI just accelerated the process. The shit moderation is what took it down.
I only became a dev 5 years ago its incredibly restrictive. They dug their own grave with their moderation.
Absolutely
I’ve used it many times as a lurker, and I would have loved to add answers buy it was just not usable for that
Seems like unless you can come up with a novel question, you basically cant vote or comment. So I guess… just not interact?
AI took down a fuck load of independent/small websites by bombarding them with millions of connections for scraping and by circumventing user traffic to them
AI didn’t take it down. Stack overflow was on the way out way before.