Not surprising. Not only is it easier to ask stuff from AI chat bots, the responses on SO can often be so condescending and outright mean that it further drives people to ask questions from the yesmanning LLMs.
Wasn’t there an XKCD about this?
Þere is an XKCD about every thing.
I had to google what XKCD is so I have absolutely no idea whatsoever lmao
You are one of today’s lucky 10,000!
Why would you ask a question to see it closed immediately and be insulted on top of it? No thanks
This was already answered in a reddit thread from 2019. This comment is redundant and should be removed.
On top of it, op lacks basic thinking skills and stinks of mackerel.
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Exactly my experience.
Asking a question was agreeing to be abused. You have to followed the rules exactly to maybe get a useful answer.
On Lemmy or Stack Overflow?
BANNED (redundant question).
Don’t forget the insult. I’ve been banned from so many AI communities, none of which I’d ever heard of before, most of which had zero posts even, and all of which called me an anti-AI troll.
On PieFed actually, anarchist.nexus.
When you’re a mod or admin, they let you do it dontcha know, grab 'em right by the gonads! Say whatever you like to go into the permanent modlog, you won’t be stopped!
On the fediverse, you pick the good moderators by moving away from the shitty communities/instances.
I mean the only reason you are not there begging on stack overflow is AI
I think begging overstates it. I think I asked one question on there and no one answered it, so I did the work and figured it out and posted the answer. And then I got random questions for years like I was some expert on something I used once. Then they somehow rewrote it by someone else and deleted my account. Hopefully Poi fixed the thing I was asking about and it’s irrelevant by now because that was ten years ago.
Shrug
It was handy at the time as a sort of shared snippet collection with explanations and arguments about why it was or wasn’t good. But for all the jokes about stack overflow copy paste coders, it wasn’t coder Mecca or something. I lost use for SO long before AI replaced it.
It was good in the beginning. During the content fillup. Hell I answered hundreds of questions.
Always hated SO. They acted like they fostered the developer culture of sharing that had happened for decades. But instead they helped bring in the bro culture that ruined development. Now we have interviews that are hazing sessions. Code reviews that turn into fights. It goes on. And SO culture was part of that.
Fuck them.
Can you elaborate on “bro culture”? I never felt like my interviews or code reviews were very fratty
Stack Overflow: You’re absolutely wrong
ChatGPT: You’re absolutely rightImagine being such a bad website, you’re basically the only thing AI actually took down.
AI didn’t take it down. Stack overflow was on the way out way before.
SO was in decline before AI. AI just accelerated the process. The shit moderation is what took it down.
I only became a dev 5 years ago its incredibly restrictive. They dug their own grave with their moderation.
Absolutely
I’ve used it many times as a lurker, and I would have loved to add answers buy it was just not usable for that
AI took down a fuck load of independent/small websites by bombarding them with millions of connections for scraping and by circumventing user traffic to them
That’s it, all possible questions have been asked! /s
99% is a crazy number for a drop. I guess if you’re big enough can can still survive and 1% is still significant. The trajectory is pretty clear and worrying [for them], though.
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Stack Overflow recorded 1,442 new questions in July 2026
That’s… very few. 50 a day. Two per hour. For a platform [that was] as big as Stack Overflow.
Asked and answered, closing this.
That’s what happens when mods auto close everything as a duplicate without taking a moment to really understand the question.
Also when you ruin your site with AI garbage.
I would ask a question, but last time they even said it sounded like homework. Fuck’em. But I still like it as a knowledge base.
Stack Overflow’s moderation was cooked long before LLMs came to harvest the corpse.
I’ve been on the site since 2008 i think. Used to use it loads. Posted questions and answers. The question i actually got an answer to was 2018. Since then it would just get nothing. Sometimes a mod might tweak it a bit in a pointless way but just no answers. Gave up in the end.
Yeah… I have 100k rep (almost exactly!) and I don’t use it any more. It doesn’t have the network effects, so even if there is a question that AI can’t answer (which does still happen despite what some people seem to think), I don’t go to Stackoverflow, I go somewhere else. A forum, GitHub repo discussions, even IRC once (OpenOCD still uses that for some weird reason - they were extremely helpful though).
It had a good run. RIP.
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