Comment by cadamsdotcom

All things have their time.

Some get superseded.

Others accelerate their decline through self-foot-shooting and/or enshittification.

Stack Overflow's journey into obscurity is via a mix of private equity indifference, better docs elsewhere, and a lack of leadership over its moderators. It was in decline long before LLMs.

It is not a new story - but it does help map out the modes of platform senescence.

Wasn't the first; won't be the last.