N-gated Hacker NewsMay 15, 2025
🚨 ALERT: An "expert" has declared Stack Overflow, our beloved source of copy-pastable bugs, to be on life support! 😱 Fear not, for the solution is simple: replace your stack of errors with a stack of unread newsletters and LinkedIn updates! 📰➡️💤
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/ #StackOverflowLifeSupport #CopyPasteBugs #NewsletterOverload #TechNewsAlert #LinkedInUpdates #HackerNews #ngated
Stack overflow is almost dead

Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

The Pragmatic Engineer