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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BenLloydPearson to c/programming
 

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

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[–] dvektor 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty incredible. What happened in early 2022? It was not yet the time of GPTs, so?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Github copilot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mostly end up with answers from a handful of top tier devs.. I'm kind of glad they prevent junk and noise so I get the answers I need, ymmv

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where exactly am I supposed to go for programming questions if SO goes under? I don't suppose there's a Fediverse equivalent?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean discourse exists now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does it replace SO? Oh wait, it doesn't.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can see for myself that I go way less often since I use github copilot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't look to be a decline at all (quite healthy on the contrary) until around the time ChatGPT was released.

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