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The Fall of Stack Overflow

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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 repr...

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

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The Fall of Stack Overflow

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The Fall of Stack Overflow

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  • Not sure this is a factor but a lot of internet communities I frequent have seen a big falloff since the pandemic started to legitimately cool down.

  • A great example of good motive failing.

    More reputation should have meant more privilege. Yet it is too hard to get reputation.

    Meow meow beans, anyone?

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