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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 88 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

LLM's won't be helping but SE/SO have been fully enshitifying themselves for years.

It was amazing in the early days.

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It was a vast improvement over expert sex change, which was the king before SO.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How early though? I stopped using them about 12 years ago due to the toxic environment.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    When it was just SO I think... if my memory serves. When it was small enough that only a (relative) few programmers were using it and generally behaving well.

    It's 17 years old, so probably only in the first 2 or 3 years. 2010 is when it got VC funding and is probably when it started to got to crap.

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