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The Fall of Stack Overflow (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by BenLloydPearson@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 44 points 11 months ago

I am not sure when this started, but google searches now sort by paid content first rather then relevant content first, so Stack Overflow started to drop down into page 2 or more.

[-] learnbyexample@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I start my search string with stackoverflow as a workaround.

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