alt Hacker NewsThe issue was that Stack overflow never was enjoyable to use.
Asking questions was difficult and any difficulty questions I might ask would not get a response anyway.
Answering questions was a gamble, sometimes you would get rewarded, most of the time you would not.
Right when it first started it was so much better than what had been there before, and the way they assigned points was designed to encourage lots of people to chip in with answers.
Asking questions did become painful later on. But it was the default site to choose whenever you googled a programming issue for years after.