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Both Beautiful and Terrible at the Same Time (piefed-media.feddit.online)

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[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (3 children)

While the downturn went from gradual to rapid when ChatGPT released in late 2022, it looks like they'd been on a steady / gradually accelerating decline for a few years beforehand - they lost all their gains from 2012-onward before GenAI really became a thing.

Anyone know why? What was killing StackOverflow slowly before GenAI killed it quickly?

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 39 points 4 days ago

I think a big reason for StackOverflows downfall where the intransparent and often outright infuriating moderation decisions.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

When people started answering questions like it was reddit. SO was already well in decline. AI just finished it off.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It looked pretty steady, normalized to a range of people with highs and lows, until the AI hit. SO was an early adopter of AI.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's clearly declining from 2018. They weren't that early.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

I believe software communities migrating to closed, volatile, private groups in discord or similars contributed to the issue