Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely “yes:”

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    151·
    3 days ago

    “Free to use” on a VC-backed service just means you’re the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I’m accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

    Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

    • vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

      have you seen: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

      That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

      Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

        • vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          So I agree, I thought you are talking about some profit enshittification on Stack Overflow

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            I’m not following SO practices, but I it will come for it as well. It’s inevitable. Those who paid billions for it will require a ROI