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Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI (wiert.me)
submitted 5 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[+] 46 points 5 months ago* (6 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I love the fact that even for ranting about internet forums you chose alice and bob for the example😭.

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    • [–] 71 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It is also dead due to how repulsive the place was. Literally.

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  • [–] 70 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As a power-whiner that racked up points on low value “acshually” style response comments, I’ve decided to lock your questions and edit the body of your question for you.

    Please come back when your question is:

    • Vague enough it no longer describes your issue or context
    • Specific enough that it doesn’t match the 50 other posts you read that failed to help you
    • And I roll a d20 and reach a value greater than 18.
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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Literally any question I asked was met by some snide asshole. Like I'm at the stage where I don't know the jargon to explain my issue and that was somehow an affront to God to them. I get it, repeat questions suck, but the answers they'd link to didn't help me because I couldn't understand the jargon in the answers.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    "Why are you using PHP instead of Py Go ++ Framework???? Its way betger for use cases of 100,000 people or more."

    Nevermind that you may be supporting a legacy system used by 20 people that runs on a literal potato anyway.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago*

    If one suspects there is a better answer to 'the question behind the question':

    1. answer the actual question that was asked, then

    2. ask the question behind the question and answer that too.

    Infuriating when people only do the latter. Particularly when I come by a question that is my EXACT problem, and none of the answers even attempt to answer the question that was asked.

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    • [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    Closed. Reason: duplicate.

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    [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    just a shitty place to get help. gave up contributing there years ago because of all the gatekeeping. their janky login popup didn't help either.

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    • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Looks like it was already on a long-term decline, AI just threw it off a cliff. It was likely ripe for an alternative.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    It got pretty toxic

    You can tell by the fact that Covid has a massive influx into tech and the platform rapidly collapsed at that time.

    If your question was good it would go unanswered because a lot of pros abandoned the platform, if you were new it was too technical, and if you were junior your question was marked as a dupe and you were told to look at a 12 year old question from an ancient version of a library that’s not supported.

    Sometimes someone would correct an old post to update it, but because it would never get seen they’d never bubble up to replace the comically old answers.

    They burned the candle at both ends by not being good for newbs or experienced devs.

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    • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    That's not why

    You needed to earn the privilege to answer questions or ask them (I think).

    It just became too difficult to get help there or help people.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This joke is marked duplicate.

    This joke has been made before, and already has a laugh track. If those jokes do not fully fulfill your laughter quote, please start a new thread

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Is your joke trying to be funny? No one writes funny jokes anymore. You should just use the funny.js library, and also kys if you aren't using JavaScript. Just write an API wrapper for it you fucking noob. Someone ban this idiot!

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    • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Damn, I hadn't visited the site (according to my profile page) in just over 5 years. I've had an account for little over 17 years, which puts me in the early adopters.

    Anyway, yeah, I'm one of those top-end commenters that left the site during Covid because everything went to shit: too many new low quality questions, too many assholes whining about it and overreacting making the problem worse, and the owners had basically already abandoned the site for years after Stack Exchange failed to become the dominant framework for the entire internet.

    It's a real shame, there's never been a resource so good for programming and probably never will be again. Now that AI is out there stealing every bit of knowledge, all the experts I know are hoarding up and looking to sell their expertise at premium since it's knowledge and experience that AI can't get or replicate.

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    • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure where to go now though. Codidact.com is growing at least but it’s still really small

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    • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Its dead because its biggest users are useless asshokes.

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    I think many forums are dying to “attention competition.”

    That’s my personal experience.

    I kind of want to participate in some forums, but a on-and-off doomscrolling addiction, executive dysfunction and some other stuff sucks up all the time.

    And many of my niches have gone to Discord, which is an information black hole yet pings the hell out of me for attention. It’s an abomination. I had to quit it, cold turkey.

    Reddit played a role, of course.

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    [–] -3 points 5 months ago

    Not because AI replaced SO, but because AI replaced programmers. 🤷

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    [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    Also, Nazis.

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