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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want to compare the behavior, only the quality of the answers. An unintentional error of ChatGPT is still an error, even when it's delivered with a smile. I absolutely agree that the behavior of some SO users is detrimental and pushes people away.

I can also see ChatGPT (or whatever) as a solution to that - both as moderator and as source of solutions. If it knows the solution it can answer immediately (plus reference where it got it from), if it doesn't know the solution it could moderate the human answers (plus learn from them).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair. You don't have to compare the behavior. There's plenty of that in the thread already.