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?

  • @[email protected]English
    41•1 year ago

    human nature remembers negative experiences much better than positive, so it only takes like 5% assholes before it feels like everyone is toxic.

    • stravanasuEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      True that! and a change from 2% to 5% may feel much larger than that.