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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)

submitted 1 year ago by wave_walnut@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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

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[–] wafer@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

The fucking irony that I can't view that page because I don't have enough reputation.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Cat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone have any thoughts as to why? The data is great but no speculation as to the reason.

[–] learningduck@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ChatGPT and Bard?

They can answer most of the questions accurately, unless they are too specific.

[–] trynn@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ChatGPT and Bard?

Doubtful, considering ChatGPT has only been public since late last year, and Bard's even newer. I also really hope those aren't a large factor, since most coding examples I've seen from ChatGPT only deal with questions of a really rudimentary nature and have given useless or wrong information about anything more nuanced or complicated.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.

[–] trynn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.

I regularly use gpt-4 for coding since it's the backend behind github copilot, and my company has approved use of copilot (and I have copilot plugins installed for vscode and vs2022). It's useful for autocompleting boilerplate code, but gets things wrong all the time about anything more complicated.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't visited stack overflow since I started using chatgpt

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Actually, I started this thread to try to figure out why. Got some pretty cool responses

https://programming.dev/comment/1326362

[–] TheBatz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I stopped using StackOverflow because of Reddit. The people over there are much friendlier and give better answers.