Posted by secretslol 2 days ago
It was such a hostile environment. It always seemed like you basically had to already know the answer to ask a question.
So unless you happen to have an old account with karma from pre-2022, the only new users whose posts are actually getting through are the ones that know the specific subreddits that let you "karma farm" - ie, mostly bots and bad actors.
Also tangentially related, much of the weirdness of Reddit ("Thanks for the gold, kind stranger", fedora-tipping, narwhals baconing at midnight, references to weird memes etc.) also happened to disappear after GPT-3 came out, and get replaced with really strong opinions about politics and investments.
You cannot reply to a post to either provide correction or solution because you don't have enough "points" to do so.
You were forced to complete an insane list of requirements just to comment. Let that sink in.
Stackoverflow aimed to be a knowledge base. And knowledge base has a ceiling limit. They simply reached the point that almost all questions (regarding the knowledge) were asked for them. You can argue that newer or niche libraries or languages knowledge is still lacking there, but I have never seen them getting closed, just not answered.
It's obvious that LLMs affected their traffic by a huge amount, but making the page flow worse for me was their doing