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Stack Overflow rebranding

2025-05-19 18:05:14.251835+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

Andy Balaam @andybalaam@mastodon.social cast this as

Poorly-copied answers ripped off from stackoverflow and wrapped in a patronising tone are putting stackoverflow out of business.

Which isn't wrong, but the whole tone and gamification that Stack Overflow pushed led to ... yes, better in many cases than vendor documentation (looking at you, Apple, burying the important shit deep in videos), but snark and "answers" which aren't terribly useful and a general decline in the quality of coding information.

Via Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social who cast this as:

Somebody needs to set up a new StackOverflow, with no AI. Literally a golden opportunity.

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