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The Fall of Stack Overflow

The Fall of Stack Overflow.
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. Traffic Votes Posts Traffic table Posts table Votes table

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faust

faust

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?

apsori

apsori

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

Eiji

Eiji

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! :joy:

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? :thinking:

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. :clap:

btw. Did someone asked to be more serious? :see_no_evil:

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