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Pretty bad timing, I would say.
rowbin
That sounds like a pretty good deal for stack overflow...
fdgwhite
It’s still 100m monthly visitors allegedly. So some value in that
dpark
It’s interesting that they managed a 1.8 billion dollar sale when they had been on the decline for years.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...

The story of how AI ate stack overflow’s lunch is, to me, way less interesting than the story of how stack overflow managed to kill their own growth with aggressive moderation. The correlation between the sudden end of high growth and the adoption of hostile moderation is strong.

try-working
SO should create an MCP interface or such, to make real-world context available to agents, the stuff that's not in docs.
dpark
Surely all of SO has been ingested by the LLM training at this point.
faangguyindia
They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.

While it did help me at time, i saw it was hard for average Joe to contribute to it.

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It was extremely weird to do things like that as a policy, since it was systemic and natural for a user to just post a question and not find what it might be related to. You just put in an automation to link up / coalesce questions together if they have enough similarity and that would catch most of the things they'd turn around and berate people for and completely avoid this issue by a change in structure. Or like, anything else that would have solved it.