--- title: Stack overflow is almost dead | daily.dev description: The engagement on Stack Overflow has significantly decreased, with the number of questions asked monthly hitting levels from its early days in 2009. Key... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead-clle39zqc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stack overflow is almost dead | daily.dev og:description: The engagement on Stack Overflow has significantly decreased, with the number of questions asked monthly hitting levels from its early days in 2009. Key... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead-clle39zqc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cLLe39zqc.png og:image:alt: Stack overflow is almost dead og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stack overflow is almost dead **[The Pragmatic Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/pragmaticengineer)** · 3 min read · 461 upvotes · 126 comments ## Summary The engagement on Stack Overflow has significantly decreased, with the number of questions asked monthly hitting levels from its early days in 2009. Key factors contributing to its decline include enhanced moderation efficiency reducing question flow starting in 2014, the impact of ChatGPT offering quick and polite answers trained on Stack Overflow data since November 2022, and outdated moderation policies. Additionally, the site was acquired by Prosus in 2021, which preceded a marked fall in activity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@skeptiq** · 68 upvotes > RIP. > > It became pathetic lately. > They were closing down instantly any topic I was opening for shitty reasons. **@eddyconejo** · 65 upvotes > Happens when people call you an idiot for asking simple questions while AI would say "That's a good question!" **@getabrainplz** · 28 upvotes > Honestly I'm sad for them. > Stack overflow was a really great tool, it help me a lot. **@catalincodes** · 24 upvotes > Asked questions too many times to be hit with "well why are you doing this? you shouldn't even have this issue...". People don't want to listen they want to hear themselves talk. > > I can't believe it's true, but an LLM is a better listener than a human. That being said, you have to be careful with what it spews out. Not everything is gold; a lot of it is pyrite. Welcome to 2025 and the AI-era gold rush. **@traustitj** · 21 upvotes > I stopped answering on Stack Overflow because good answers were downvoted constantly and even went into negative points for no reason given, even if the answer was correct. It became such a nasty environment full of nasty people. And when I asked the admins to look into one answer, they just said that the crowd has spoken, no need to do anything. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead-clle39zqc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Stack overflow is almost dead","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead-clle39zqc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead-clle39zqc"},"datePublished":"2025-05-15T15:37:44.105Z","dateModified":"2025-05-15T15:37:59.575Z","description":"The engagement on Stack Overflow has significantly decreased, with the number of questions asked monthly hitting levels from its early days in 2009. 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People don’t want to listen they want to hear themselves talk.\nI can’t believe it’s true, but an LLM is a better listener than a human. That being said, you have to be careful with what it spews out. Not everything is gold; a lot of it is pyrite. Welcome to 2025 and the AI-era gold rush.","datePublished":"2025-05-16T12:37:02.755Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cLLe39zqc#c-SsmzcNn8N","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Catalin","url":"https://daily.dev/catalincodes","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--dPI_Qfxp--/f_auto/v1717856576/avatars/avatar_N60Y1zup0kLFNR5dsq5H7"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":24}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I stopped answering on Stack Overflow because good answers were downvoted constantly and even went into negative points for no reason given, even if the answer was correct. It became such a nasty environment full of nasty people. 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