The Fall of Stack Overflow - Beehaw
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?
All questions have been asked and all answers have been given
and copilot and chatgpt give good enough answers without being unfriendly
Exactly this. SO is now just a repository of answers that ChatGPT and it’s ilk can train against. A high percentage is questions that SO users need answers to are already asked and answered. New and novel problems arise so infrequently thanks to the way modern tech companies are structured that an AI that can read and train on the existing answers and update itself periodically is all most people need anymore… (I realize that was rambling, I hope it made sense)
So soon they will start responding with “this has been asked before, let’s change the subject”
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