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?

  • @xePBMg9
    7•1 year ago

    Perhaps it’s easier to ask copilot or chatgpt. A quick but slightly inaccurate response might satisfy the user better.

    • Sirico
      4•1 year ago

      Definatly replaced the site for me I always just needed just a little nudge where I was missing something obvious or new. They should be happy now no one is taking up their “free time” a constant reason for being toxic to new users

    • brianshatchet
      3•1 year ago

      ChatGPT has also found stupid typos or misplaced commas that humans can miss.

      • Kalash
        1•1 year ago

        When it’s not busy introdcing it’s own typos and mistakes a human then has to catch.