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StackOverflow has lost 77% of new questions compared to 2022. Lowest # since May 2009. (gist.github.com)

submitted 3 days ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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yes its from reddit, but its fairly interesting.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hwj0sq/fired_from_meta_after_1_week_prolog_engineer/

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I asked 1 high-quality question in 2024, and it was closed almost immediately, and I haven't engaged with the site since.

If someone with 20,000+ karma has their nicely-formatted questions closed so quickly, what must the newbies and rank-in-file encounter? This is probably a big reason why it's declining.

It's a high quality question, yes.

The close as already answered elsewhere is valid though. It's not saying that the question is wrong; at least a decade ago StackOverflow explicitly allowed and encouraged asking the same question in different ways so they and their answers can be found.

It's about operator precedence. And the referenced question asks the same thing, about ?? and a comparison operator.

The head note says:

This question already has an answer here:

Notably, it refers to answers, not the invalidity or duplication of a question.

The header also mentions [previously] opinion based, so I looked into the question edit history. It most certainly was not a "high quality" question at the beginning - at the very least to the degree it looks like now.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Notably, it refers to answers, not the invalidity or duplication of a question.

I think it’s too much to close a question just because a different question happen to have the same answer. There might be a future answer that might apply to one, but not the other.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you think that applies to this question?

Null coalesce operator vs comparison operator precedence? Both questions are about that. I don't see one having a different answer to the other. In that case, duplication would only lead to spread out partially outdated information, instead of one place being updated.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Then it should be closed for being a duplicate question. I don’t think it makes sense to close any question for having a duplicate answer.