Timeline for answer to Do you agree with Gergely that "Stack Overflow is almost dead"? by starball
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| Mar 23 at 23:36 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | "There still are quite a few questions coming in" - this is incorrect. The number of new questions per day is now under 80. February had less than 3 questions per day on the [javascript] tag, compared to 450 questions per day just 4 years ago. | |
| Jan 29 at 17:39 | comment | added | Stevoisiak | SO feeling unwelcoming compared to LLMs is a strong point. It's arguable whether the high standards of SO is a pro or con, but its certainly part of why LLMs can be more approachable. Questions on SO can be rejected for reasons that are unintuitive to the average user. *Posts get closed as being not about programming. *Questions get closed as duplicates if the answer can be found elsewhere, even if the linked dupe isn't an exact match. *Unanswered questions with a score of 0 get auto-deleted. | |
| Jan 15 at 21:05 | comment | added | einpoklum | Addressing a minor question you pose: "Is it that these people aren't voting? If so, why?" <- perhaps a combination of three factors: 1. If users don't need to ask new questions, they are much less likely to register. I mean, would you really register to vote on questions? 2. Even a user who has registered, but only ever asked a question or two, may not feel it's their place to decide which answers are good or not. 3. ... especially when looking at an old question with a large number of votes which has supposed "decided" the matter. | |
| Jan 13 at 14:33 | comment | added | Dharman Mod | "For me right now, I think SO is dead when the people who are looking for what we're designed to provide (a community-built library of Q&A) no longer find us able to provide that." That is also happening right now. LLMs have taken a huge chunk of traffic away from SO. | |
| May 19, 2025 at 20:40 | comment | added | zcoop98 | @DalijaPrasnikar I can only speak to my own experience with it, which has been nowhere close to "horrible", but it's definitely in primarily higher-traffic tags. The one point I'd argue specifically is that the outdated top answers problem is, in my understanding, most common in higher-traffic tags, which is precisely the place that trending shines because of the higher voting activity. | |
| May 18, 2025 at 12:57 | comment | added | Dalija Prasnikar Mod | @zcoop98 trending sort order is horrible most of the time, especially in lower traffic tags. If you land on the question with plenty of answers and where there may be newer ones which will surface with trending sort, then it is not hard to switch sort. Most upvoted works the best for the most questions and it is not vulnerable to sock voting. | |
| May 16, 2025 at 16:54 | comment | added | zcoop98 | Such a minor part of your excellent answer, but on the "outdated top answers" complaint, I'm really partial to the trending sort order; off the top of my head, I feel reasonably strongly that that should become the default sort order to address precisely that complaint. | |
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