Finally, the social web like discussion and comment features implementations right inside the documentation pages of every software technology. discuss.kotlinlang.org is a great example
Blogs, especially those part of the indie web, are crazy good now too. I've read some great blogs in 2025.
Documentation itself has become crazy good too, especially linux man pages and official documentation of programming languages.
StackOverflow itself has also IMO reached a plateau of maturity—most questions that could be asked on current technology have been asked. I think the next phase should be updating those answers, perhaps with a feature that surfaces questions that haven't seen an updated answer in a while.
GitHub issues, IMO, are the largest factor. They're generally recent, have great answers from genuine experts, and are fairly openly searchable.
I think the actual reasons for decline in SO questions, in order of impact, is:
1. GitHub issues
2. SO's maturity
3. Documentation becoming good
4. Blogging becoming really really good
5. Social web
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
Happy New Year, everyone!
Merry Christmas, everyone.
I think it's nice how we humans take care of animals around us, who we've never met before. Makes me feel good about humanity.
I've noticed that every year, around this time, DevOps and Ops tools begin trending on GitHub and there are a lot of posts about them on my timeline. It's just a general observation, but I wonder if there is an index that tracks this, and if there might be historical data I could access.
