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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[-] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Maybe I would post more if I didn't get ignored, or my questions immediately get marked to be closed without comment.

[-] Sl00k@programming.dev 45 points 1 year ago

I've had an account for almost 10 years that I use at least every other day at work, and have seen plenty of questions I CAN answer but apparently don't have the "reputation" to.

Honestly a really dumb system imo.

[-] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Nobody OWES me an answer, but if I tend not to get one, I'm not going to keep bothering with SO.

Now, the anonymous cowards who mark a question to be closed without commenting are a different story.

[-] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Man, infuriating! I had a problem that was being asked on stackoverflow but with no solution. Later, I found the solution reading some obscure parts of the docs from certain vendor. I was gonna post it there so everyone that had the same problem could find it and solve it. But I don't have enough reputation :/

[-] phillycodehound@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

Never got into it because of that.

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