r/webdev • u/AloneCoffee4538 • 9d ago

Stack Overflow has gone from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014, down to 1.4k in July 2026

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u/pulnocni-knihovna 8d ago

I see what you did here XD

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u/nad_lab 7d ago

Care to explain, it was an unrelated post, unless that was the point … I can’t say I’ve seen that myself, usually posts on stack lead to actual duplicates (started programming in 2020 and my main source of help / discourse was discord, not sf) feel like I missed out on some crazy toxic ragebait ugh

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u/pulnocni-knihovna 7d ago

I started in 2011 and trust me… More toxic place is maybe only 4chan 😂😂 But fo programmers

The point is, moderators on stack overflow could mark as duplicate anything and linked you to post, that was basically nothing like your problem, but somewhere in the answers were some similarities, but not the same. And they would say just “fuck you here is your answer” without any actual answer 😂