Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by nicoburns on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:18PM (#46482811)

Those saying that StackOverflow became toxic are absolutely correct. But we should not let that be it's legacy. It is IMO still today one of the greatest achievements in terms of open data on the internet. And it's impact on making programming accessible to a large audience cannot be understated.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by gfhifd42 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:15PM (#46483301)

No its legacy should be this is what happens when you betray your community because money is your god.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by Alex2037 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:12PM (#46483717)

what the fuck are you talking about? SO, remarkably, did not get enshittified.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by hahn-kev on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:26PM (#46483813)

Yeah I agree, it did fail, but it's not worse because the people running it were trying to ring money out of it's users. Maybe they did take their eye off the ball trying to make it something else though

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by casey2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:00PM (#46484740)

Probably about https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overfl... and the ensuing shitstorm

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by gfhifd42 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:58PM (#46485081)

Nah. Farther back in time and psychologically deeper. Its in my, very short, comment history.

They told their community their motivation was to combat the selfish monetization of digital sharecroppers and then they monetized their digital sharecroppers.

They are frauds and eventually frauds are exposed and they exposed themselves for $1.8billion.

And SO it collapsed.

But thanks for speaking for me. Albeit incorrectly, ironically.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by stingraycharles on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:52AM (#46485624)

It would help if you provide actual arguments to support your claims that SO was enshittified due to monetization efforts.

The selling of SO itself is no evidence that they’re actually making the experience worse.

You’re making bold claims of them being frauds, selling out the community, etc but provide nothing to support these claims.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by zahlman on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:07AM (#46485970)

They're trying really hard now. Constant attempts to introduce half-baked AI features that the meta community doesn't want. Posts from staff (i.e., actual employees of Stack Exchange, Inc.; not the unpaid moderators) on the meta site rarely if ever get a positive score in the last few years.

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