What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by amelius on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:17AM (#48957903)

Are you saying that the decline of SO can be explained by that and not AI?

I don't buy it.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by baq on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:20AM (#48957936)

People were willing to put up with SO in the before times, nobody was excited to ask a question, it was a dreadful experience. It was their UX that doomed them immediately. Reddit and HN are still here after all.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by inigyou on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:37PM (#48961499)

Reddit is full of bots instead of actual humans. Arguably, so is HN.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by baq on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:08PM (#48961811)

SO doesn’t even have bots.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by frollogaston on Monday July 20, 2026 @02:55AM (#48975156)

Reddit was full of fake users even day 1, they admitted to bootstrapping the website that way.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by palata on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:56AM (#48958710)

I personally left SO because I felt moderation had become toxic, and that was before AI. And I was relatively active, like in the top 5%.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by unreal37 on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:26AM (#48957978)

How eager people are to find something better IS a factor in the decline of websites/businesses. Not just that there is something better that exists.

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Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph by Jolter on Saturday July 18, 2026 @11:14AM (#48958874)

See the decline of the graph even before the spring of ’22?

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