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The Fall of Stack Overflow (programming.dev)
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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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[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

People who fail to understand the value of peer-reviewed code are just going to copy/paste bad, but popular, code practices.

There irony here is that Stackoverflow was considered a common source of copy/pasted code.

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