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In a smaller or larger degree, any internet environment where you can ask questions has the same problem, attrition. It looks like this:
[First thread]
Alice: “How do I shot web?”
Bob: “You just HDGLKSKTR the DLASFD in the SKSTGA”.
Alice: “Thanks, Bob. What’s HDGLKSKTR?”
Charlie: “Please do not ask separated questions in the comments. Open another thread to do it.”[Second thread]
Alice: “What’s HDGLKSKTR? I need it to shot web.”
Dan: “It’s the FGDJ of the DSKFD. You config it through SFDH.”[Third thread]
Alice: “Whats FGDJ?”
Ed: “why do you want to know it? lol lmao.”
Alice: “I asked how to shot web. Then someone told me I need to HDGLKSKTR the DLASFD in the SKSTGA. Then I asked what’s HDGLKSKTR. They told me it’s the FGDJ of the DSKFD, configured through SFDH. I don’t know any of those acronyms, I just want to shot web.”
[][Fourth thread]
Alice: “Whats FGDJ? I need it to shot web.”
Fran: “You don’t need FGDJ to shot web lol lmao.”
Gerald: “Such basic question lol lmao. Use the search.”
***⟨blink⟩Jean Niteur⟨/blink⟩*** ==[MOD]==: “Your question was removed as duplicate.”Then Alice spends two days searching the site for “FGDJ”. No other thread about the topic pops up, except her own. But in the meantime, she notices someone else answered the second thread.
[Second thread, again]
Fran: “Actually it’s «shoot», not «shot».”
Alice: “OK. And what’s HDGLKSKTR? I need it to «shoot» web.”
[][Fifth thread]
Alice: "Why is this site so fucking shitty? I’ve been trying to shoot web for three days, some people tried to help me (thank you, Bob and Dan!), but when asking follow-up questions it’s like everyone went out of their way to waste my time without helping me.
Gerald: “entitled lol lmao X-D”
Hector: “toxic”
***⟨blink⟩Jean Niteur⟨/blink⟩*** ==[MOD]==: “Your question was removed as not-a-question. Additionally, you’ve been banned for 3d for incivility. Make sure you read the FAQ, the Code of Conduct, Posting Guidelines and Commenting Guidelines.”Damn, I hadn’t visited the site in (according to my profile page) in just over 5 years. I’ve had an account for little over 17 years, which puts me in the early adopters.
Anyway, yeah, I’m one of those top-end commenters that life the site during Covid because everything went to shit: too many new low quality questions, too many assholes whining about it and overreacting making the problem worse, and the owners had basically already abandoned the site for years after Stack Exchange failed to become the dominant framework for the entire internet.
It’s a real shame, there’s never been a resource so good for programming and probably never will be again. Now that AI is out there stealing every bit of knowledge, all the experts I know are hoarding up and looking to sell their expertise at premium since it’s knowledge and experience that AI can’t get or replicate.
Not because AI replaced SO, but because AI replaced programmers. 🤷
It is also dead due to how repulsive the place was. Literally.
As a power-whiner that racked up points on low value “acshually” style response comments, I’ve decided to lock your questions and edit the body of your question for you.
Please come back when your question is:
- Vague enough it no longer describes your issue or context
- Specific enough that it doesn’t match the 50 other posts you read that failed to help you
- And I roll a d20 and reach a value greater than 18.
10/10 no notes
Literally any question I asked was met by some snide asshole. Like I’m at the stage where I don’t know the jargon to explain my issue and that was somehow an affront to God to them. I get it, repeat questions suck, but the answers they’d link to didn’t help me because I couldn’t understand the jargon in the answers.
“Why are you using PHP instead of Py Go ++ Framework??? Its way betger for use cases of 100,000 people or more.”
Nevermind that you may be supporting a legacy system used by 20 people that runs on a literal potato anyway.
If one suspects there is a better answer to ‘the question behind the question’:
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answer the actual question that was asked, then
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ask the question behind the question and answer that too.
Infuriating when people only do the latter. Particularly when I come by a question that is my EXACT problem, and none of the answers even attempt to answer the question that was asked.
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Sorry, your question was marked as fugly and it was already answered in [picture of a cock covered in poop here].
Closed. Reason: duplicate.
Looks like it was already on a long-term decline, AI just threw it off a cliff. It was likely ripe for an alternative.
It got pretty toxic
You can tell by the fact that Covid has a massive influx into tech and the platform rapidly collapsed at that time.
If your question was good it would go unanswered because a lot of pros abandoned the platform, if you were new it was too technical, and if you were junior your question was marked as a dupe and you were told to look at a 12 year old question from an ancient version of a library that’s not supported.
Sometimes someone would correct an old post to update it, but because it would never get seen they’d never bubble up to replace the comically old answers.
They burned the candle at both ends by not being good for newbs or experienced devs.
just a shitty place to get help. gave up contributing there years ago because of all the gatekeeping. their janky login popup didn’t help either.
It was very fun when you answered a few questions and unlocked privileges.
Then we all got a reminder why some people aren’t invited to parties.
Its dead because its biggest users are useless asshokes.
Not sure where to go now though. Codidact.com is growing at least but it’s still really small
Thanks for sharing!
For some reason, they managed to fuck up their login page so much, that it is literally impossible for me to sign up to it. I have tried multiple times in the last year and every single time I could not sign up for some weird reason.
Also, Nazis.
