They get that many?!

I don’t think they’re gonna be long for the world

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SO has been useless for years now, but the other Stack Exchanges can be interesting, they deserve more spotlight.

I am amazed it's still that high

And how much was AI trained on their data? That's the sad part. Nobody asking new questions, so not much more for AI to train from.

The highly technical sites -- StackOverflow, Unix & Linux, MathOverflow -- see little use.

Others like SciFi & Fantasy and Worldbuilding have kept relevance.

Unfortunately, the more niche sites relied on StackOverflow to drive referral traffic, and so they're suffering too.

It is sad because it was such a well designed community. But its lessons live on.

The riddle was: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?".

Oedipus answered: "Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_and_the_Sphinx

This question has already been asked?

Pages bloated like myspace make me reluctant to click the search result and I wont browse around if a website doesn't load instantly. Search some exotic kind of bad. That they haven't implemented an LLM is quite untechnological.

It should have an LLM assist with constructing the questions and it should have answers from all providers willing to donate tokens. Upvotes should generate wonderful data on how to construct an answer.

Wow, what a steep drop off. They've gotten fewer questions over the last year than they averaged per month in 2024.

Well, I always found SO to be an intensely hostile community. Chat GPT doesn't ban you for asking which IDE to use