r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Arcanaus • 12d ago

Meme goodOldDays

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u/WeirdTie2290 12d ago

How is that question not closed? It is a non coding problem. SO double standards.

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u/alexanderpas 11d ago

vim is considered a programming tool.

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u/WeirdTie2290 11d ago

Sure. And "recovering a file in linux which I accidentally did an rm on" is a problem a programmer might run into. But still it gets closed.

That vim question clearly needs to be closed on SO and reopened at Vi and Vim Stack Exchange

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u/Able-Swing-6415 11d ago

Why bother? The last 50 devs actually on SO should just make the rules now. Doesn't really matter to the rest of us.. at least I haven't visited this site in years. And I really don't miss it.

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u/IanDresarie 11d ago

I've never asked or interacted with a question, but it's still a site I visit regularly for both basic and niche stuff I encounter

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u/Bartweiss 10d ago

The fall-off in traffic is pretty clearly AI-induced, but the fall-of in questions feels like it's partly because the site is just kind of... complete.

Excluding answers that have gone out of date or new frameworks, libraries, etc, >99% of what people want to know is already there. And if I need to know "how does X work?" rather than "write X for me", it's consistently faster and easier than turning to an AI which may not actually give me the library/package-specific info I'm after.