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.
replyReddit is full of bots instead of actual humans. Arguably, so is HN.
replySO doesn’t even have bots.
replyI 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%.
replyHow 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.
replySee the decline of the graph even before the spring of ’22?
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