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
Is this due to the chatgpt?
ChatGPT went public at the start of the last kink downward. It can not be the reason for the big drop untill 2023.
Probably chatgpt getting all the easy high volume questions, yeah.
All questions have obviously been answered.
Not arguing with the other possible reasons given, but it can be really hard to get started with SO as anything other than a reader. Gaining enough points to comment, answer, or even answer a comment feels really hard now that so many questions are already answered well.
A lot of my answers I get answered with ChatGPT. And I can always ask ChatGPT to tell me where I can look to verify the answer. I find myself on stack overflow for very specific or very technical topics.
It's funny how if everyone just went and "read the documentation" like they tend to obnoxiously tell you to do.. stackoverflow wouldn't exist. Personally I go and look for things I can answer if someone asks a question that I know will get obliterated but I can tell they just need some help. I'll try to answer it before it gets downgraded and they get banned
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