Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely “yes:”

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Never again will I help provide content to a VC-backed service just so that they can rugpull us and cash-out.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      131·
      2 days ago

      That’s why people should be posting on fedi and never post on corporate web.

      When corporate tells you its a parasite, believe it

    • vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      What exactly do you accuse Stack Overflow for? As far as I know this service has always been free to use and data is easily downloadable.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        131·
        2 days ago

        “Free to use” on a VC-backed service just means you’re the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I’m accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

        Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

        • vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

          have you seen: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

          That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

          Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

    • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I live in the hope that the insightful comments I left on reddit over my long tenure there will eventually be part of a FOSS corpus, once the VCs can’t extract anything of competitive value from it anymore. I’ll be long dead, but my comments will live on.

      • isaakengineer@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        for a life of mine, I can’t understand why people don’t value knowledge enough to make their own website and be proud of it; PS. I have made a load of CMS and now working on new approach to web dev …

        • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Because it won’t be used and won’t be seen, that’s the sad reality of it. I do host a small personal blog run of org-mode+hugo, but it gets less visitors than a library at midnight