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 49 days.

What happened?

  • Alto
    7•11 months ago

    Yeah but those people who take the sarcasm seriously are fools and you can’t make things foolproof.

    Or you know, have a legitimatly very hard time distinguishing it for actual reasons.

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
      1•11 months ago

      Actual reasons like their stupidity? Yeah I admit that’s a real thing. But if we all give up on it then we all lose the ability and we lose the benefits of it.

      • Alto
        1•11 months ago

        Damn bro you’re right, I’ll just stop being autistic. I’m cured!