[amelius]

Are you saying that the decline of SO can be explained by that and not AI?

I don't buy it.

[baq]

People were willing to put up with SO in the before times, nobody was excited to ask a question, it was a dreadful experience. It was their UX that doomed them immediately. Reddit and HN are still here after all.

[inigyou]

Reddit is full of bots instead of actual humans. Arguably, so is HN.

[frollogaston]

Reddit was full of fake users even day 1, they admitted to bootstrapping the website that way.

[baq]

SO doesn’t even have bots.

[unreal37]

How eager people are to find something better IS a factor in the decline of websites/businesses. Not just that there is something better that exists.

[palata]

I personally left SO because I felt moderation had become toxic, and that was before AI. And I was relatively active, like in the top 5%.

[Jolter]

See the decline of the graph even before the spring of ’22?