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Exactly.

Absolutely toxic website + a question can only be answered a few different ways so you run out of questions

Who would’ve thunk it lol they did absolutely nothing to fix the toxicity of the moderation

Closed, banned, and reported for off topic, foul language, and not answering the question in good faith.

oh wow thats too funny

Last data point on the right is 3,710 to save you a click.

I meant “some” . Wish there’s an edit button here.

Seems like GitHub is a better resource. Perhaps why copilot is as good as it is for vibe coding, though Claude really seems to be the stand out for me right now.

As a percentage it’s almost certainly ~0%. But I suspect it’s probably a meaningful source of much-higher-than-average-quality data.

I love that almost no matter what data is being graphed, there's a distinct anomaly in early 2020

Stack overflow? Nah, they're just stack over

​I guess the "hardcore" graybeards finally got their graveyard. ​SO has been a toxic wasteland in the name of "retaining quality" for years. Many newcomers dread the site - myself included, back when I was green. ​Now, the moderators can moderate their deserted dune to their hearts' content.

😮‍💨

With the decline, a generation of programmers has now grown up without useful, vibrant forums. And with LLMs as an alternative, those are never coming back. I really worry about stagnation now.

They sell anything you post there to "AI" vendors, in contradiction of the license, then ban you if you complain. That's why *I'm* not posting questions there anymore at least?

That spike during the start of the pandemic is interesting. Probably people unable to ask their peers in person for help so going to SO instead?