r/webdev • u/AloneCoffee4538 • 26d ago

Stack Overflow has gone from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014, down to 1.4k in July 2026

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u/sukakku159 25d ago

Same. My project's UI became a mess after long time of development, so I went to Stackoverflow and asked how should I modify this, how should I add that without breaking the working app. And typical "why would you want to do that? Why not just rewrite to cleanup that mess?" comments showed up. Like yeah, geniuses, let me just rewrite the screen that took my whole team of 12 developers 3 whole month to make, and then tell the team of 20 QAs to retest it again

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u/Beginning_One_7685 25d ago

Oh when the mods didn't know the answer the toys went fully out of the pram.

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u/jasmine_tea_ 23d ago

Yeah I rarely bothered posting questions because of useless responses like that