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 49 days.

What happened?

  • ryan659@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    If this and Reddit are going downhill, where will we look for our tech questions?! (/s, there will always be others)

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      My bets for the future:

      • RTFM
      • Have ChatGPT RTFM
      • Read a book about general principles
      • Ask ChatGPT to apply general principles to its own answer after RTFM, then ask it to double check it
      • Spin up a VM, just try the thing. If it doesn’t work, ask ChatGPT why.

      When everything else fails…

      • Ask a question at any random place (SO, Reddit, Discord, Mastodon,Lemmy, etc.)
      • Feed the answers to ChatGPT and have it summarize them, then double check its own answer