Did anyone posted once on those platforms, I was still remember StackOverflow, I remember in my first programming job, I’d ask a question and it would refresh every 3 seconds to see if anyone had answered me hahaha
I use to post on dev.to. Even becomes a moderator, just during a few weeks before being kicked for what I can described as a “One way anti-discrimination rule enforcement”.
But even before AI it started to become slopes of always the same low quality topics. I cannot count the number of “How to push your first git branch” or “How to becomes a 10x developer” article I saw. There was a belief that putting on your CV that you write articles and contribute to open source will makes you more employable. Most of people didn’t understand that “quality” contribution was implied.
After that I switched to medium.com, but the same bullshit article contamination happened. Maybe even worst because there was money involved.
Now I write only on my blog and follow tech news on mastodon.
Maybe you want to join https://normals.me/ I am writing from here actually.
I checked out dev.to recently and it seemed 99% of the posts were AI-generated posts about AI.
Yeah that’s why I was asking because I do not think people read more like they used to do. And I guess now less so much AI Articles created. But yeah maybe I am wrong
I believe those are still very much active, but I see them more as specialized blogging platforms, and not as much as Q&A platforms.
