Second year on Stack Overflow

Recently my second year at Stack Overflow has passed. You will immediately notice a dramatic drop in activity compared to the previous year. About 100 new answers and nearly 4,000 points (mostly generated by old answers) is a much lower result than a year ago. In fact, I read and contribute less often. Contributing to Stack Overflow is no longer a new and fresh experience – you can see the same questions and problems asked over and over again. General moods and changes on the website did not help either (although recently the situation has improved, as if suddenly the website owners noticed that they have a community and ignoring it completely is not the best idea…). Well, I hope that the next year will be better…

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A year on Stack Overflow

If you’re a developer, you must have heard about Stack Overflow. Certainly, you also have pieces of code in your projects that have been copied from the answers you found there. 🙂 I’m no exception – I have used Stack Overflow for a long time. 3 years ago I even created an account, but it was practically inactive (a new user with no reputation cannot do much). But a year ago I become to be more active there. What is the effect of the year on Stack Overflow?

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