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It looks like Stackoverflow was already in a decline even before Covid. I wonder what developers started using during that time.
by Gee101 1y ago
It looks like Stackoverflow was already in a decline even before Covid.
I wonder what developers started using during that time.
- cjs_ac 1y agoThey still used it, they just didn't contribute. It's not that StackOverflow is useless, but rather that it already answers most questions.
- rienbdj 1y agoThat, and genuinely new questions get aggressively shut down.
- Someone 1y agoGiven the speed at which tech evolves, I do not see how that can be true. I think it may answer most questions from five years ago, but I would phrase it as “it has answers for most questions, but many are outdated and there’s no easy way to tell whether an answer is outdated”
- mixmastamyk 1y ago"Rank by recent votes" has been a feature for perhaps five years already.
- usefulcat 1y agoThe graph shows monthly questions asked, not monthly questions answered. It makes total sense that the slope of that graph would be much higher earlier in the life of the site; as time goes on, many common questions will have already been answered.