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 days. The data is from https://stackoverflow.com/site-analytics Traffic Votes Posts
- wafer ( @wafer@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
The fucking irony that I can’t view that page because I don’t have enough reputation.
- nicetriangle ( @nicetriangle@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Not sure this is a factor but a lot of internet communities I frequent have seen a big falloff since the pandemic started to legitimately cool down.
- Cat ( @Cat@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
A great example of good motive failing.
More reputation should have meant more privilege. Yet it is too hard to get reputation.
Meow meow beans, anyone?
- sharpiemarker ( @Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
Anyone have any thoughts as to why? The data is great but no speculation as to the reason.
- learningduck ( @learningduck@programming.dev ) 8•1 year ago
ChatGPT and Bard?
They can answer most of the questions accurately, unless they are too specific.
- trynn ( @trynn@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
ChatGPT and Bard?
Doubtful, considering ChatGPT has only been public since late last year, and Bard’s even newer. I also really hope those aren’t a large factor, since most coding examples I’ve seen from ChatGPT only deal with questions of a really rudimentary nature and have given useless or wrong information about anything more nuanced or complicated.
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 1•1 year ago
Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.
- trynn ( @trynn@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.
I regularly use gpt-4 for coding since it’s the backend behind github copilot, and my company has approved use of copilot (and I have copilot plugins installed for vscode and vs2022). It’s useful for autocompleting boilerplate code, but gets things wrong all the time about anything more complicated.
- makingStuffForFun ( @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I haven’t visited stack overflow since I started using chatgpt
- danhab99 ( @danhab99@programming.dev ) 4•1 year ago
Actually, I started this thread to try to figure out why. Got some pretty cool responses