Stack Overflow is almost dead
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Stack Overflow is almost dead
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Re: Stack Overflow is almost dead
#2The timing on the sale was genius. Similar to Mark Cuban with Broadcast.com. I guess it's best to sell something before the value plummets to 0.
As far as its demise? AI ate its lunch. I use to use Stack Overflow all the time and haven't even gone to the site for a couple of years now.
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#3The timing on the sale was genius. Similar to Mark Cuban with Broadcast.com. I guess it's best to sell something before the value plummets to 0. As far as its demise? AI ate its lunch. I use to use Stack Overflow all the time and haven't even gone to the site for a couple of years now.
AI just stole all its content, I wonder if they will choose to sue.
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#4The timing on the sale was genius. Similar to Mark Cuban with Broadcast.com. I guess it's best to sell something before the value plummets to 0. As far as its demise? AI ate its lunch. I use to use Stack Overflow all the time and haven't even gone to the site for a couple of years now.
AI just stole all its content, I wonder if they will choose to sue.
Stack overflow never owned the content, it is and was Creative Commons:
https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
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#5All the "overflow/exchange" sites suck, not just the stack overflow. Too many questions being closed. I had a question closed in mathexchange because, I surmise, it was "too obvious" even though easier questions were asked as recently as 2021, even much more elementary ones. Moreover, my specific question had never been asked there before, and the point of math exchange is to ask easier questions, compared to mathoverflow.
But it's also possible it's pivoting to a Wikipedia-like model where it becomes a repository for answers, and less about contributions. In which case, this is not the same as it dying. As seen with Wikipedia, it can still get a lot of traffic and revenue even if few people contribute to it anymore.
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#6I wonder how the other -overflows are doing?
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#7It looks like Stackoverflow was already in a decline even before Covid.
I wonder what developers started using during that time.
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#8Doesn't feel like the AI is the main driver. Many things changed over time - dev tools got better, editors got smarter, compilers got better error messages, various primary resources improved, tutorial websites, courses and youtube boomed.
Another point of course is that each new question is more and more likely to be already answered. At some point the site pretty much covers most of what is to be answered.
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#9I find it interesting that the current StackOverflow moderators tend to say "in the past we used to accept too many questions but it was never the goal, so now we are doing it as it was meant to be".
Sure, but in the past, StackOverflow was growing, and now it's dying. Maybe something was better before, when "it was not done correctly"?
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#10Where will training data come from for new tech & programming languages if SO dies?