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. The data is from https://stackoverflow.com/site-analytics Traffic Votes Posts

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. The data is from https://stackoverflow.com/site-analytics Traffic Votes Posts

  • sharpiemarker
    2•1 year ago

    Anyone have any thoughts as to why? The data is great but no speculation as to the reason.

    • @learningduck
      10•1 year ago

      ChatGPT and Bard?

      They can answer most of the questions accurately, unless they are too specific.

      • trynn
        7•1 year ago

        ChatGPT and Bard?

        Doubtful, considering ChatGPT has only been public since late last year, and Bard’s even newer. I also really hope those aren’t a large factor, since most coding examples I’ve seen from ChatGPT only deal with questions of a really rudimentary nature and have given useless or wrong information about anything more nuanced or complicated.

        • melroy
          2•1 year ago

          Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.

          • trynn
            1•1 year ago

            Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.

            I regularly use gpt-4 for coding since it’s the backend behind github copilot, and my company has approved use of copilot (and I have copilot plugins installed for vscode and vs2022). It’s useful for autocompleting boilerplate code, but gets things wrong all the time about anything more complicated.

            • melroy
              1•1 year ago

              I don’t have GPT-4. But thanks for sharing your experience. It’s not that good after all… Well, we are not yet replaced by robots, that is for sure ^^

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      I stopped using StackOverflow because of Reddit. The people over there are much friendlier and give better answers.