The fall of Stack Overflow, explained?
Probably &quot;unpopular opinion™&quot; but I feel like the ban on &quot;opinion-based&quot; or recommendation questions also didn&#x27;t help. Not everything can be answered purely objectively, there are many situations where people just want to ask &quot;what are the options for generating a PDF in python&quot; or something. Stackoverflow removed itself from that process which has driven people elsewhere.<p>Answers are also often more focused on the cosmetic aspects than actually answering a question. Just see the example in the article. The questioner asked about a lambda reference to a public field, and they got told &quot;just don&#x27;t use public fields lol&quot;. That&#x27;s not help, that&#x27;s just being a condescending asshole and not actually answering the question.<p>Combined with the toxicity and elitism rampant, I am not surprised.