[dpark]

It’s interesting that they managed a 1.8 billion dollar sale when they had been on the decline for years.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...

The story of how AI ate stack overflow’s lunch is, to me, way less interesting than the story of how stack overflow managed to kill their own growth with aggressive moderation. The correlation between the sudden end of high growth and the adoption of hostile moderation is strong.

[sohex]

Wildly true. Purely anecdotal on my part, but in my experience the cooking stack exchange was just awful to even try to ask something on.