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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You were able to post on there at all? Don't they have extremely high barriers to entry for even question comments?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I put some effort into get some of their reputation points. Then I asked one question that I didn't realize was dumb and I can't post questions anymore. You're welcome to see my profile and try to figure out how I did it ๐Ÿ‘

https://stackoverflow.com/users/3971843/dan

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

lmao, how dare you be inquisitive

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not only post, but I have content that still feeds me residual cool-points even now.

I got a nastygram because I was editing the questions to follow a proper style and form (AP) and some people got upset that my comments were more "run on sentence" and " 'emails' and 'helps' both sound wrong as nouns for the same reason" instead of something like "there-there, Timmy".

So I said "you can have free editing, or the next guy can be a people person instead." And they agreed.

So I'm read-only there now too. :-D