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?

  • Sabata11792
    25•1 year ago

    I can’t wait to read gems like “Answered 12/21/2005 you moron. Learn to search the website. No, I wont link it for you, this is not a Q&A website”.

    • HarkMahlberg
      17•1 year ago

      Answers from 2005 that may not be remotely relevant anymore, especially if a language has seen major updates in the TWENTY YEARS since!

      • @[email protected]
        10•1 year ago

        More important for frameworks than languages, IMO. Frameworks change drastically in the span of 5-10 years.