sanitation@lemmy.today to Programming@programming.dev · 5 days agoStack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peakppc.landexternal-linkmessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkStack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peakppc.landsanitation@lemmy.today to Programming@programming.dev · 5 days agomessage-square60linkfedilink
minus-squareZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoImagine being such a bad website, you’re basically the only thing AI actually took down.
minus-squareNewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoAI didn’t take it down. Stack overflow was on the way out way before.
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days 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-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days 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-up0·4 days agoI only became a dev 5 years ago its incredibly restrictive. They dug their own grave with their moderation.
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days 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-up0·4 days agoSeems like unless you can come up with a novel question, you basically cant vote or comment. So I guess… just not interact?
Imagine being such a bad website, you’re basically the only thing AI actually took down.
AI didn’t take it down. Stack overflow was on the way out way before.
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
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?