AI. It’s soooo much easier to ask an LLM your question. Even if its answer is wrong, at least it’s not an asshole
It doesn’t just whine that someone’s already answered the question. Oh it has been asked? Then link to the fucking answer!
My biggest pet peeve is when the first Google result for stack overflow is someone bitching at the asker to Google the question.
stack overflow is great if you want to be berated, given an irrelevant solution, and then have your question closed as a duplicate incorrectly
Exactly. It’s a good place to look for an answer, but if the answer isn’t there, save yourself from the angry mob and ask chatGPT.
It got eaten by ChatGPT and that other one
It’s notable that a major part of the drop happened before chatgpt was even released. Lots of good explanations here already for why that might be.
My personal anecdote is that it’s almost useless in relation to modern react (ts&functional). New questions aren’t being answered and old ones were answered with react& js or even jquery.
The problem of outdated answers indeed make it quite unusable for certain type of questions. Try finding any Java question if you’re a newbie and want to use a modern tech stack, all you find are answers from 15 years ago (literally) with a thousand up votes that all no longer work.
It of course depends on the language, but a big fat warning when an answer is more than 5 years old, with an ability to filter these out by default, would be great.
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I stopped going there and posting as soon as chatgpt became an alternative. I can get my answers from the bot about 70% of the time or at least a nudge in the right direction to solve it myself.
