In some ways Stack Overflow feels dated, but in some ways I hope it will go on; I still often prefer responses found there from the AI's. It also brings the recurring theme of what the LLMs will be trained on when people create less and less content. But I guess some people will always, and it might be enough
I think if we started trying to track the version numbers of questions and answers, and attached them to existing answers and questions, things would sort themselves out rather quickly.
The real problem is asking a question about how to do something in Java 8, becoming the canonical answer, and now we're on Java 25 and your answer is still on top even though we've gone through two new strategies for idiomatically representing that slice of code in the API and there's a 3rd in beta testing.
My suggestion: works on a frecency-based sort algorithm to display good recent answer above outdated one. StackOverflow is still good, just that you have to scroll a bit nowadays.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 36.2 ms ] threadIsn't this a standard feature these days?
I can't wait 'til the site is dead, they have the worst community on the planet, even worse than Reddit and [REDACTED].
Worst thing is they saw this coming and doubled down on what everyone was telling them was the cause of trouble. There were memes out of it.
Classic example of product people leaving and marketing ones taking the helm.
The real problem is asking a question about how to do something in Java 8, becoming the canonical answer, and now we're on Java 25 and your answer is still on top even though we've gone through two new strategies for idiomatically representing that slice of code in the API and there's a 3rd in beta testing.