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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)
submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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?

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[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I don't even know how to answer questions.

I lost my old account and now I don't have points on new account and I can not do anything. I can not vote, I can not comment, I can not answer questions. So I just dropped it. I can not even thank (by liking or upvoting) a person whose answer helped me.

I believe others have similar experience.

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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