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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by rg111 on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:08PM (#36949550)
It could have been a community, like Quora, but focused towards CS/IT.

But it absolutely missed the mark on that one. It is a high pressure, toxic, unwelcoming place.

I contributed a lot of Math and CS content to Quora where I had ~1.5m views on answers. I really liked engaging there. OTOH, SO felt like a toxic exam hall on a bad day.

Every year SO asked in the survey if I felt I belonged to the community or something similar, I chose the most negative response from the list- every year.

If SO behaved like a community, then it could have had organic growth, and organic visitors, not depending so largely on Google.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by TRiG_Ireland on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:20AM (#36954045)
Huh. I've long had the opposite impression of the two communities. Quora seemed to celebrate showing off in a way that SE didn't.
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