Comment on The Fall of Stack Overflow

Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tbf it’s a normal problem to have, it wasn’t meant to be a forum. But it looks like they haven’t considered what to do with the moving parts of the community once they reached content saturation. 😄

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So why did they structure it as a forum?

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• cestvrai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same thing came to my mind. Is it so bad if the content grows at a slower rate and the traffic of adding new content drops to a new equilibrium.

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• crystal@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t it a good thing if your question is marked as a duplicate? That means you now have lots of answers readily available which already answered the question.

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  • Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But then would you be like “Oh boy let me get slapped next time too”

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    • crystal@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d be like “Oh boy let me get redirected to lots of useful answers to my question next time too”.

      I don’t understand why you would frame that as being “slapped”. Does having your question marked as a duplicate hurt your feelings?

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      • Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No but it feels redundant then to ask it anyways.

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  • Hector_McG@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not really. A question that’s simply closed as a duplicate isn’t going to get any answers, and the answers to the original question, while they may have once been reasonable enough to be accepted, might be outdated.

    Languages move on and add features, and closing any question as a duplicate precludes new, modern features that provides better way to answer the original question.

    A lot of content on SO is dated to say the least, precisely because reputation harvesters with a dated knowledge of the language are overly keen on closing questions.

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