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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 3 days ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I do understand being rigorous about questions, and technical forums were even worse a lot of the time, but SO's methods led to the site becoming severely outdated. They really should have introduced a mechanism to mark old content as outdated. It should have been obvious like 10 years ago that solutions often stop working come next major version of the programming language, framework or operating system.