The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in
Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.
And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.
It’s viable, StackExchange as a company is just shit. See: then never listening to meta, listening to random Twitter users more, and defaming their volunteer moderators.
Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.
But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.
Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.
And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.
It’s viable, StackExchange as a company is just shit. See: then never listening to meta, listening to random Twitter users more, and defaming their volunteer moderators.
Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.
But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.