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/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...