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@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

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

  • nicetriangle@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year 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@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year 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?

      • trynn@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year 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.

          • trynn@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year 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.

    • TheBatz@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

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