The story of how AI ate stack overflow’s lunch is, to me, way less interesting than the story of how stack overflow managed to kill their own growth with aggressive moderation. The correlation between the sudden end of high growth and the adoption of hostile moderation is strong.
They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.
While it did help me at time, i saw it was hard for average Joe to contribute to it.
> They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.
Yeah, it was a shitshow.
The thing i hated the most were mods rewriting your posts, because they didn't like the wording. Years after I am still salty and convinced it was a petty way to farm points or whatever.
It’s interesting that they managed a 1.8 billion dollar sale when they had been on the decline for years.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...
The story of how AI ate stack overflow’s lunch is, to me, way less interesting than the story of how stack overflow managed to kill their own growth with aggressive moderation. The correlation between the sudden end of high growth and the adoption of hostile moderation is strong.
Wildly true. Purely anecdotal on my part, but in my experience the cooking stack exchange was just awful to even try to ask something on.
They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.
While it did help me at time, i saw it was hard for average Joe to contribute to it.
> They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.
Yeah, it was a shitshow.
The thing i hated the most were mods rewriting your posts, because they didn't like the wording. Years after I am still salty and convinced it was a petty way to farm points or whatever.
I'm so glad that StackOverflow is dead.
Pretty bad timing, I would say.
Yep. Enjoy your toxic, obsolete echo chamber!
for the buyer, yes. it's worthless now.
It’s still 100m monthly visitors allegedly. So some value in that
now 99m and dropping each day - sell fast!
SO should create an MCP interface or such, to make real-world context available to agents, the stuff that's not in docs.
That sounds like a pretty good deal for stack overflow...
why post an article from 5 years ago ?
Looking back it seems like a very bad deal.
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