this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I think you've got it backwards, actually, a lot of power users publicly announced their departure when AI was introduced to the site and that probably lead the lower level users to leave as well since they could no longer get good answers.
Jon Skeet answered this question less than a week ago. Stack lives on.
Can you link to some power users publicly announcing their departure?
No offense, but that doesn't sound like a good use of my time.
Fair but without data it seems questionable. It seems like a pretty big backpedal to not even half ass list off some names of people you remember. But I waste too much time here too