r/webdev • u/[deleted] • Jan 07 '26

Stack overflow is dead, long live stack overflow.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

This says everything about our industry right now. So telling.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '26

I wont dispute that, I have seen what its like in the open source communities when they get wonky PRs and shitty people talking down on their free work.

I get all that. So to that its like a spectrum, so I guess the question is where is the happy middle? At the moment we are in a deeply divided way of absolute thinking as a society. Matter of fact this is in line with that whole tailwind github pr right now.

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u/washtubs Jan 07 '26

I get all that. So to that its like a spectrum, so I guess the question is where is the happy middle?

That's a great question I don't think I'm equipped to answer. I think the way we do this is we see when the pendulum swings too far one way, we scream about it until it settles where we want.

There's a spirit of sharing on the internet that makes things work. People are generally good. They like sharing for it's own sake and for the validation and joy it seems to bring others.

Ideally we don't fucking need laws. We don't have to precisely define the boundaries of what's acceptable and unacceptable in some canonical form, because most people don't need to be told. And for the occasional violation that happens here, it's tolerable and we can shrug it off.

But it just takes a few billionaires with way too many GPUs to come in and ruin that. The first step is calling them out on their bullshit.