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The Fall of Stack Overflow (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BenLloydPearson@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this has as much to do with Google being shit at finding stuff lately as it does llms like chatGPT

[–] Calyhre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can even see the decline in posts and votes before GPT became mainstream. This definitely look more like search engine failing to get rid of those cheap copycats.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what? On Google??

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Google and on Duck Duck Go too. On DDG you can't get rid of the over-optimized websites anymore even if you use -"website name". Luckily -site:address still works.

[–] cschreib@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That's crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn't noticed. I've been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.

[–] zatanas@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.

[–] REdOG@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the search engine ignores -string

WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder....

[–] gosling@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hyphen (-) means you don't want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.

Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.