Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive. The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of days. The data is from https://stackoverflow.com/site-analytics Traffic Votes Posts

  • wafer
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    811 months ago

    The fucking irony that I can’t view that page because I don’t have enough reputation.

  • nicetriangle
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    611 months ago

    Not sure this is a factor but a lot of internet communities I frequent have seen a big falloff since the pandemic started to legitimately cool down.

  • Cat
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    11 months ago

    A great example of good motive failing.

    More reputation should have meant more privilege. Yet it is too hard to get reputation.

    Meow meow beans, anyone?

  • sharpiemarker
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    311 months ago

    Anyone have any thoughts as to why? The data is great but no speculation as to the reason.

      • trynn
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        711 months ago

        ChatGPT and Bard?

        Doubtful, considering ChatGPT has only been public since late last year, and Bard’s even newer. I also really hope those aren’t a large factor, since most coding examples I’ve seen from ChatGPT only deal with questions of a really rudimentary nature and have given useless or wrong information about anything more nuanced or complicated.

    • @TheBatz@sh.itjust.works
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      311 months ago

      I stopped using StackOverflow because of Reddit. The people over there are much friendlier and give better answers.

  • CyberCatBytes
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    111 months ago

    It makes me feel bad when people on Stack Overflow are mean to me waaaaaaaa