The Fall of Stack Overflow

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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating.

SO is a shithole, just like Reddit. All the work is done by volunteers. When it was time to cash out with the platform, they also did several things to fuck with their community. I’ve contributed quite a bit to the trilogy sites, and served as a moderator. I regret every second of it. But at least a few people got rich in the process.
I don’t get why programmers, especially ones actually working on open source projects, insist on using proprietary services. Stack Overflow is one, also GitHub.

If you decide to start a project but somehow decide to self-host a git repository, ticketing service, CICD pipelines, etc… You no longer work on said project and instead you’re the system administrator of half a dozen services.

…or you register an account with the likes of GitHub/gitlab, and stay coding right away.