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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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 49 days.

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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 123 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a lot of Stack Overflow hate in this thread. I never had a bad experience. I was always on there yelling at noobs, telling them to Google it, and linking to irrelevant questions. It was just wholesome fun that briefly dulled my crippling insecurities

[–] Alto@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So you never had a bad experience, just were actively causing bad experiences for others?

[–] HERRAX@sopuli.xyz 95 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you just fell for quite an obvious case of sarcasm.

[–] outlying_demotion_nemeses@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago

A "woosh" if you will.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Sorry for being autistic ig

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It isn’t obvious unless it has the slash s!

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

We should leave the /s back on reddit

[–] ily@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sarcasm

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

No "/s", no sarcasm.

[–] Sinnerman@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic.