All things have their time. Some get superseded. Others accelerate their decline through self-foot-shooting and/or enshittification. Stack Overflow's journey

All things have their time. Some get superseded. Others accelerate their decline through self-foot-shooting and/or enshittification. Stack Overflow's journey into obscurity is via a mix of private equity indifference, better docs elsewhere, and a lack of leadership over its moderators. It was in decline long before LLMs. It is not a new story - but it does help map out the modes of platform senescence. Wasn't the first; won't be the last.