Stack Overflow has been nearly useless as anything other than an archive of old questions for a long time. It's a case study in how gamification can backfire.

For me it was over was before the peak as shown. The gamification that got it started in the first place eventually led to it becoming almost unusable for its intended purpose. Instead it functioned as more of an online-only augmented reality game where people worked to moderate away new questions as efficiently as possible rather than actually answer questions.

People were so rude there, we shouldn't mourn its end

Tried using StackOverflow back in my college days and was confronted by a barage of people practically telling me I am stupid fuck in subtle and not so subtle ways. I am sure people on there being rude and demeaning didn't help their case.

The graph shows me that Chatgpt had almost nothing to do with the stagnation and decline.

A popular book doesn't receive new pages either.

Maybe Stack Overflow is "complete" or "stable"? :)

Why ask when You can search? If You don't find it, then you probably thought about the problem the wrong way!

I was only ever taught to search. Asking was for the class

Or worded more positively: Stack Overflow is closer to being complete.

I rather liked stackoverflow, and was fairly popular in the electronics one. I never found it overly rude, but there absolutely were certain individuals who were.

I mourn its inevitable passing; I haven’t found anything that worked as well as it did, and the fact that you can get the data dumps is awesome.

Didn't Stack Overflow sell their own data to AI companies before the crash?

they got what they wanted

Might be worth a preservation effort.

Apocalyse sign...

I asked a handful of questions there and allways got really nice answers. Does it matter that people need less help these days?

Seems good to me that AI can take care of the easy questions.