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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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[-] REdOG@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

the search engine ignores -string

WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder....

[-] gosling@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

Hyphen (-) means you don't want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.

Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Yeh, suddenly you need to know what the language calls the operator within the context you want to use it.
At which point, you probably don't need to Google the symbol!

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I'm still pissed over removing +words. Like, G+ is gone, guys, so revert that mess.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

It was a really dumb move but you can can still get the same effect by putting a word in quotation marks.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

UI-wise, though, it's toxic, and therefore slower and more stressing. It's something that can be fixed, and ergo essentially a bug. ;-)

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