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Stack overflow is almost dead
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this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Who is the "they" in this? The volunteers who contributed to the site? StackOverflow isn't like a company or anything. No one is paid to answer questions there. They're all people who were working hard to make a collection of common questions with the best possible answers, and trying to uphold a certain standard for the content there.
Based on your comment, I think maybe we as a group just don't deserve stackoverflow. If we really are all now turning to LLMs instead (which are not in any way "decentralized") to get a bunch of statistical bullshit spit at us instead of, you know, the actual right answer, then maybe we deserve what will happen next.
it's owned by Prosus, acquired for $1.8 billion in 2021.
Yes, but they're not the ones producing all of the content. Again, that's produced by volunteers.
Again, the attitude comes down from the top. Volunteers whose ethics (contempt and superiority) align with the executive staff are rewarded, and those that don't are let go. I don't know if you're ignorant or being deliberately obtuse? Please think about what I wrote.