Something to think about is the number of posts and votes have been declining since 2021, before chatgpt, so maybe there’s something else causing this fall besides chatgpt… or am I reading the graphics wrongly?

I think it is still very useful, but with the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, developers will prefer them over SO.

Great! One less opponent on the way to dominate the developer’s question/answer space! The last worth mentioning opponent is AI. Oh, wait! We can integrate it in forum just like we have bots for news! We have already won!

Ok, now more seriously … Stack **/** stuff maybe (ehem … of course) does not have the best community, but it’s huge. I’m surprised how fast it loses traffic. I wonder if it’s only this site or maybe other sites have similar issues … How does it looks like for our forums?

In the next industrial revolution the AI could take most of jobs and therefore the only jobs would be engineers that would maintain the system and “human” services in case you don’t want to have a contact with AI / robot which does not have any natural emotions. Anyway, looks like our community is safe at least before atomic war, so for now we can close the topic.

btw. Did someone asked to be more serious?