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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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 49 days.

What happened?

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[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I suppose the same amount of experts are on stackoverflow and they live in good times. There isn't too much spam to hate about.

The mosts visits to SO does a novice programmer. Currently they live off of AI answers and from more experienced co-workers.

I think the school of SO will last and the community is not hostile; But some people tend to forget that the quality of a question is very important.

Other factors:

SO jobs was shut down.

There is no new technology which enables a new SO chapter. There aren't too many new questions about AI.

What do you think?

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The pandemic ended

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