Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
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Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
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Re: Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
#2An interesting thing to me about SO is how their focus on being Dev Centric ultimately led to some problematic internal culture issues.
This came up in a podcast episode I did and then turned up on twitter.
At one point in 2013/2014, an exec asked me if any of the developers had ever treated me badly because I was a woman. My honest reply at the time was “not because I’m a woman, but they definitely have treated me badly because I’m not an engineer”.
Ben: This was a meetup at, I think it was Denver 2014. We were standing outside an arcade. The evening outing was a lot of pinball fun and air hockey. And one of our community managers was standing outside, and we got to talking, and he said to me, “You know, I was actually kind of surprised. You’re a really nice guy.”
It's interesting to me as a warning.
I think treating developers really well is important. But SO seems like an interesting case where they allow entitled behaviour of some devs to get out of control and it led to problems.
Re: Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
#3An interesting thing to me about SO is how their focus on being Dev Centric ultimately led to some problematic internal culture issues. This came up in a podcast episode I did and then turned up on twitter. At one point in 2013/2014, an exec asked me if any of the developers had ever treated me badly because I was a woman. My honest reply at the time was “not because I’m a woman, but they definitely have treated me b…
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#4An interesting thing to me about SO is how their focus on being Dev Centric ultimately led to some problematic internal culture issues. This came up in a podcast episode I did and then turned up on twitter. At one point in 2013/2014, an exec asked me if any of the developers had ever treated me badly because I was a woman. My honest reply at the time was “not because I’m a woman, but they definitely have treated me b…
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#5That was a really interesting. I do worry about the effect of sort of aggregating forces impact on places where content is created. We've seen it with news and etc already.
Having said that with Stack Overflow the real reason I hit ChatGPT first in many cases is FRICTION. The UI, the users, the answers that are technically correct but "weird". It's a lot of filtering I have to do as a user that I don't do with ChatGPT or other AI tools.
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#6That was a really interesting. I do worry about the effect of sort of aggregating forces impact on places where content is created. We've seen it with news and etc already. Having said that with Stack Overflow the real reason I hit ChatGPT first in many cases is FRICTION. The UI, the users, the answers that are technically correct but "weird". It's a lot of filtering I have to do as a user that I don't do with ChatGP…
"the users..."weird""
I would have chosen another word for them...
Re: Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
#7An interesting thing to me about SO is how their focus on being Dev Centric ultimately led to some problematic internal culture issues. This came up in a podcast episode I did and then turned up on twitter. At one point in 2013/2014, an exec asked me if any of the developers had ever treated me badly because I was a woman. My honest reply at the time was “not because I’m a woman, but they definitely have treated me b…
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Based on what is it pretty clear that everything went downhill when engineers stopped calling the shots?
Re: Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
#8An interesting thing to me about SO is how their focus on being Dev Centric ultimately led to some problematic internal culture issues. This came up in a podcast episode I did and then turned up on twitter. At one point in 2013/2014, an exec asked me if any of the developers had ever treated me badly because I was a woman. My honest reply at the time was “not because I’m a woman, but they definitely have treated me b…
As a non-engineer user, I know I have regularly felt unwelcome in various ways.
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#9That was a really interesting. I do worry about the effect of sort of aggregating forces impact on places where content is created. We've seen it with news and etc already. Having said that with Stack Overflow the real reason I hit ChatGPT first in many cases is FRICTION. The UI, the users, the answers that are technically correct but "weird". It's a lot of filtering I have to do as a user that I don't do with ChatGP…
I guess I'm just used to it now, but I kind of like the UI. It's easy to skim the page to find the part I'm looking for.
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