The Fall of Stack Overflow

Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by Scarblac on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:30AM (#36858325)

Also answers becoming obsolete because newer versions of the technology came out.

E.g. Python 2 answers aren't relevant anymore, but still there.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by rmuratov on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:38AM (#36858377)

SO prioritizes more recent good answers now.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by namdnay on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:39AM (#36858780)

This is a huge problem for Spring (since the correct way of doing things changes every 2 years..)

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by dataengineer56 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:10AM (#36858984)

Exactly. The top answer is often wrong and you have to look at an edit on the third answer to see "Since 2021, this is solved by doing x y z".

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by smrtinsert on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:49AM (#36859257)

its a problem but once you know to look for the updated comment, it's not that bad.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by ajmurmann on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:49AM (#36863100)

If they exist. That Google is bad at indexing SO aggravates this.

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