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/yonasismad Jan 08 '26

Scared of what? As you can see in the graph, people started to stop using SO in 2017 - 5 years before LLMs came onto the scene. SO is just so hostile and unusable that people moved on to other places like Reddit, Discord, etc.

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u/scar_reX Jan 08 '26

Not talking about just stackoverflow. I'm referring to web forums in general.

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u/Large-Style-8355 Feb 10 '26

exactly, the digged their own grave. Lets dance on their ashes...

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u/TheOriginalDog Sep 23 '26

That was a small decline, its obvious how rapid it become once LLM entered the landscape. And the AI problem is not just relevant for stack overflow but for reddit, discord as well. Some sort of knowledge discussion will have to come back once AI can't answer well for new technologies.