Yes, it is definitely dying. Mainly because of AI as most people turn to LLMs and even google AI summery now.

And many of the policies have also contributed to long time veteran contributers and mods leaving. I find also quite a lot of conflict so whatever incentives there were to participate...have all but disappeared now that there are alternatives. Add to that, new users being bulldozed... and it doesn't do much now that there are faster alternatives.

Unfortunately, it also may seem that there is a lot of activity on Meta but not so much in main Stackoverflow - especially for answering and asking.

And especially with the gatekeeping … quite a lot of active gatekeeping though unfortunately there is not the same enthusiasm with actually providing content to the website… in terms of answers and questions.

Also, I was quite impressed with the low volume of new questions/answers for the last hour. 30 questions? 30 Answers? Nothing in comparison to 2017...2018...

Yes, it is definitely dying. Mainly because of AI as most people turn to LLMs and even Google AI summary now.

And many of the policies have also contributed to long time veteran contributors and mods leaving. I find also quite a lot of conflict so whatever incentives there were to participate... have all but disappeared now that there are alternatives. Add to that, new users being bulldozed... and it doesn't do much now that there are faster alternatives.

Unfortunately, it also may seem that there is a lot of activity on Meta but not so much in main Stack Overflow - especially for answering and asking.

And especially with the gatekeeping … quite a lot of active gatekeeping though unfortunately there is not the same enthusiasm with actually providing content to the website… in terms of answers and questions.

Also, I was quite impressed with the low volume of new questions/answers for the last hour. 30 questions? 30 Answers? Nothing in comparison to 2017...2018...

Yes, it is definitely dying. Mainly because of AI as most people turn to LLMs and even google AI summery now.

And many of the policies have also contributed to long time veteran contributers and mods leaving. I find also quite a lot of conflict so whatever incentives there were to participate...have all but disappeared now that there are alternatives. Add to that, new users being bulldozed... and it doesn't do much now that there are faster alternatives.

Unfortunately, it also may seem that there is a lot of activity on Meta but not so much in main Stackoverflow - especially for answering and asking.

Specifically, I was quite impressed with the low volume of new questions/answers for the last hour. 30 questions? 30 Answers? Nothing in comparison to 2017...2018...

Yes, it is definitely dying. Mainly because of AI as most people turn to LLMs and even google AI summery now.

And many of the policies have also contributed to long time veteran contributers and mods leaving. I find also quite a lot of conflict so whatever incentives there were to participate...have all but disappeared now that there are alternatives. Add to that, new users being bulldozed... and it doesn't do much now that there are faster alternatives.

Unfortunately, it also may seem that there is a lot of activity on Meta but not so much in main Stackoverflow - especially for answering and asking.

And especially with the gatekeeping … quite a lot of active gatekeeping though unfortunately there is not the same enthusiasm with actually providing content to the website… in terms of answers and questions.

Also, I was quite impressed with the low volume of new questions/answers for the last hour. 30 questions? 30 Answers? Nothing in comparison to 2017...2018...