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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.

What happened?

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[-] Deathcrow@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Half of a fuck-ton is still a lot. If they scale down their operational costs they can still run a very comfortable business for a long while on these kinds of numbers.

[-] sanzky@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I think the point is not their viability as a business but their relevance in the industry.

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