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StackOverflow has lost 77% of new questions compared to 2022. Lowest # since May 2009. (gist.github.com)

submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire to c/[email protected]

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yes its from reddit, but its fairly interesting.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hwj0sq/fired_from_meta_after_1_week_prolog_engineer/

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[–] mesamunefire 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think the big one recently is the opt in ai training. A lot of people were not happy with their data being hoovered up and making so a ton of $$. So they are replacing their answers with nonsense/deleting them. Plus there's now ai bots that are on so...such a strange world.

SO is only useful if it's filled with things that help out users. If it starts getting less foot traffic, an evaporation effect occurs where more and more uses leave thereby making it even less useful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

This, my altruism has it's limits

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks :) Now I remember ! It's always AI...

Dunno how good their strike went and/or/if their actions had any effect on stack* and derivatives...

I just hope there will be some open source replacement maybe with federation? Dunno, I'm not a contributor but stack* most of the time solved my questions I had and I will probably miss the human interaction :/.