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?

  • @mryessir
    3•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?