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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BenLloydPearson to c/programming
 

Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's usually for the better though, basic questions have been answered a million times in a million different ways, yet another post on the same question will just make the original answers harder to find.

People still could be nicer and not attack others personally for not knowing any better, but closing duplicates and redirecting new people to them is a net positive for the platform

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen lots of people complain about closing duplicates and not redirecting to the original.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's a big dick move