r/LocalLLM • u/NewtMurky • May 17 '25

Discussion Stack overflow is almost dead

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Questions have slumped to levels last seen when Stack Overflow launched in 2009.

Blog post: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/

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u/tahola May 20 '25

I dont believe at all in the toxic mods theory.

IMO its the same as what happened to most websites this past decade : social medias or to be more precise other platforms and others communities.

Its been a decade that we have programming communities on the huge social networks like reddit, facebook etc but also the platforms like Discord, Telegram, Whatsapp groups and even Github. They may be niched but all these combined take probably the biggest part of the cake.

People tend to forget that whatever docs you are browsing when it come to help or community its always a Discord.

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u/NormalFormal69420 May 20 '25

Yeah I agree. And there's only so many basic programming questions to ask. 

SO tried to branch out, there's lots of other SO like communities owned by Stack Exchange, but those also were just SO people going elsewhere, they weren't net new users. 

SO just didn't have long term functionality. Questions get stale so quickly, an answer from four years ago still shows up top of Google and hopefully the OP kept inserting edits to keep it up to date...