Post by @nixCraft@mastodon.social

2026-10-30 12:12 UTC

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month. The end of an era https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph I also want to thank the original SO founders Joel and Jeff, not just for creating a good Q&A site but for keeping it free and giving data dumps too. Even though AI and Google both killed the site, know this: SO was the OG for many IT folks, and they ran it with a certain ethical balance.

Replies (12)

@gentauro@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 12:23

@nixCraf well then direct to @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org before they delete/remove the platform.

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@bimmer@beige.party 2026-10-30 12:39

@nixCraft@mastodon.social it peaked just in time to help me get through college 😂

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@mcsoverflow@c.im 2026-10-30 12:59

@nixCraft@mastodon.social we should add/request the collaboration of an AI bot on SO.

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@marc_eu@mastodon.green 2026-10-30 13:02

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I guess reading documentations and learning skills is the new thing?

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@gjorgji_vasileski@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 13:27

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Hope it survives, like the radio survived the TV era.

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@kameleonnn@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 14:17

@nixCraft@mastodon.social i still use stack overflow when trying to figure out stuff. i'll be sad to see it go

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@eyevanovich@mas.to 2026-10-30 17:04

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I would not be where I am today without StackOverflow. Helped me through so many stressful times. Much love to those guys who created and maintained it.

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@behrangsa@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 19:03

@nixCraft@mastodon.social it was already dying before LLMs were a thing though, mainly due to their alienating moderation regime.

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@Microfractal@mathstodon.xyz 2026-10-31 12:31

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Yes. Their priorities become more visible 🎉🫩

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@tiilda@mastodon.social 2026-11-01 12:54

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Never made an account on stackoverflow but I use it almost daily to get answers. I know AI butchered it but could it also be that so many questions were answered there just wasn't anything left to ask? Especially with most languages having documentation for libraries nowadays e.g. https://docs.rs

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@stickyburn@mastodon.social 2026-11-03 11:28

@nixCraft@mastodon.social SO was great because even copy-pasting code blocks meant reading the code, tweaking it to your usecase, and answering for others was a really positive feeling

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@tulainas@mas.to 2026-11-07 16:33

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Well, in my opinion I see a weird effect (to me): Every question I may ask, it's already been asked before. Either I'm trapped in the technological past, or I just haven't seen the future and, ergo, haven't found a worthy question to ask.

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