Perhaps I wasn’t paying appropriate attention but it also seemed unexpected to me. Everywhere has a background level of “we want more mods and admins” so it gets easy to ignore, and it feels like we’ve gone straight from there to “right we’re shutting down now” without an intermediate “we’re really struggling here folk and may have to consider shutting down if it doesn’t improve”.

Little do they know how much they’re looked down upon by civilized countries.

FTFY

I tried pocket a couple of times but couldn’t get past the “we think you’re on a phone so you’re only getting three items on the screen at once”. Well I’m not on a phone, I’m on a desktop with a 32" monitor and three T-Rex sized items on my screen is just terrible design.

Not in technology, it’s a rapidly evolving field. Answers that might have been absolutely perfect five years ago can now be irrelevant archaic trivia.

I’m not surprised. StackOverflow has moderated itself out of relevance. Ask a question and get flamed. DDG a question plus “stackoverflow” and get something that may well have been correct and useful in 2012 but tech moves on and it’s now archaic trivia, somewhat akin to facts about punched cards. “Help me StackOverflow, you’re my only hope” hasn’t been true for quite some time now.