Stackoverflow Outage
16 comments
·November 30, 2025jakubriedl
hokumguru
Last I heard they self hosted. Far as I understand it’s incredibly cheap for them to host. Especially since they’ve been completely cannibalized.
ziggure
Didn't notice, as Claude is still up.
sien
This is an ill formed question.
Stackoverflow may be up or down.
Please return later when you are able to determine exactly where your problem is and have read all the documentation on Unix, C and the internet.
John7878781
Stack Overflow is no longer relevant. Today, you can just ask Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT instead, and you don’t have to deal with the usual condescension.
Etheryte
I can see where you might get that sentiment, but where do you plan to go when new tech rolls around, the docs don't cut it and your LLM of choice hallucinates APIs that don't exist? This was always Stackoverflow's bread and butter, and people who only use it as noob search tend to miss that fact. SO can be a tough crowd, yes, but mostly it's people who didn't read the rules before posting who get burnt. That aside, it still has a very high concentration of experts that you'll struggle to find anywhere else.
protocolture
>I can see where you might get that sentiment, but where do you plan to go when new tech rolls around, the docs don't cut it and your LLM of choice hallucinates APIs that don't exist?
Not Stackoverflow, because all my questions are either ignored or closed, even when extremely detailed and unique.
arbol
LLM clients like chatgpt can scrape the code of new tech on demand. They tend not to hallucinate when you provide fixed inputs like this.
kace91
How much of that LLM output is the result of adding SO’s content to the pot?
And if usage declines, what will be feed future LLMs with?
kruuuder
Blog posts and GitHub discussions come to my mind. That's where I often find answers to my questions and where I contribute.
arbol
SO is probably a very significant factor in the success of LLMs but it's decline will not affect LLM development. LLMs will simply be trained on the conversations people are having with them.
ndespres
Growing grains is no longer relevant. You can just walk into any supermarket and purchase packaged cereals, breads, and cakes, and you don’t have to deal with operating a tractor, cultivating soil, or sowing seeds.
blueflow
The equivalent of "growing grains" would be reading the documentation - SO is second-hand knowledge.
1-2-3-5-8
Status updates for stackoverflow are like: hey look at me, I'm still here.
animanoir
[dead]
lordnacho
SO has had an effective outage for years now. Put up a question, get smacked with "it's a duplicate" of an old, no-longer-relevant question, mods don't correct it because the culture is gatekeeping, now you have a dead Q&A site.
With the additional problem that someone invented a way to take your question pages and tailor them to the exact needs of a particular user.
I thought they're just shutting down because it wasn't worth running the servers anymore.