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#Coding help on #StackOverflow dives as #AI assistants rise
Developer Q&A platform StackOverflow appears to be facing an existential crisis as volume of new questions on the site has plunged 75% from the 2017 peak and 60% year-on-year in December 2024, according to #StackExchange Data Explorer figures.
https://devclass.com/2025/01/08/coding-help-on-stackoverflow-dives-as-ai-assistants-rise/

Coding help on StackOverflow dives as AI assistants rise • DEVCLASS

StackOverflow, once the favoured destination of developers in search of coding help, is suffering from declining activity, with […]

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@BenjaminHCCarr Good news! It’s good to hear that the oppressive technofeudal gate keeper (#StackExchange/ #StackOverflow) might stop jailing knowledge in #Cloudflare’s #walledGarden.

Note that they have taken a jab at #AnonymousOverflow in the past week:

https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow/issues/175

403 error · Issue #175 · httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow

What's Happening? Error: Received a non-OK status code 403 when trying to use AnonymousOverflow. It seems upstream started using CloudFlare and this is causing issues How to reproduce: Go to any in...

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