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?

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.com
    58·
    1 year ago

    Honestly.

    Stackoverflow is a horrible place to ask anything.

    I have had 100% legit, well documented questions, closed as duplicate of unrelated other question.

    Its… honestly, just not a friendly place to go. Full of a bunch of assholes…

    Most of the answers actually suck too. Many times, you will find the correct answer downvoted, and incorrect or bad answers upvoted.

    • Didros@beehaw.org
      13·
      1 year ago

      I found this when I was in college too. I only ever asked a few questions and they were all closed as duplicates and never found why the answers from those threads solved anything closed to what I was asking. Lol

    • Buttons@programming.dev
      7·
      1 year ago

      A few months ago I had a 7 year old question of mine closed as a duplicate of a 5 year old question. Just another sign that StackOverflow mods are hard at work.

    • monobot@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t even know how to answer questions.

      I lost my old account and now I don’t have points on new account and I can not do anything. I can not vote, I can not comment, I can not answer questions. So I just dropped it. I can not even thank (by liking or upvoting) a person whose answer helped me.

      I believe others have similar experience.