> ...produces the high quality that made them all popular in the first place Agree with everything you said in general, but you lost me at the very end in the

> ...produces the high quality that made them all popular in the first place Agree with everything you said in general, but you lost me at the very end in the context of this thread. Hard to equate Stack Exchange as a "high quality" destination. It was probably true in the first few years after inception, but years of tug war between "the business they think they're in" vs. "the business their users think they are" have made a terrible experience for said less-informed users. When given an alternative (e.g. LLMs, ironically probably trained on their own content, but without the snarkiness and self-righteousness of their mods), users seem to be voting with their clicks [1]. [1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387278/has-stack-exchanges-traffic-decreased-since-chatgpt https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387278/has-stack-ex...