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

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
    10•2 years ago

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

  • nicetriangle
    6•2 years 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
    5•2 years 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
    2•2 years ago

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

      • trynn
        7•2 years 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.

        • melroy
          1•2 years ago

          Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.

          • trynn
            1•2 years ago

            Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.

            I regularly use gpt-4 for coding since it’s the backend behind github copilot, and my company has approved use of copilot (and I have copilot plugins installed for vscode and vs2022). It’s useful for autocompleting boilerplate code, but gets things wrong all the time about anything more complicated.