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

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?

    • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      not for solving technical problems

      One example is writing complex regex. A simple well written prompt can get you 90% the way there. It’s a huge time saver.

      for generating prose

      It’s great a writing boilerplate code so I can spend more of my time architecturing solutions instead of typing.