What's going on with Stack Overflow's traffic?

cryball, 11 months ago

It’s notable that a major part of the drop happened before chatgpt was even released. Lots of good explanations here already for why that might be.

My personal anecdote is that it’s almost useless in relation to modern react (ts&functional). New questions aren’t being answered and old ones were answered with react& js or even jquery.

kiddblur, 11 months ago

AI. It’s soooo much easier to ask an LLM your question. Even if its answer is wrong, at least it’s not an asshole

lackthought, 11 months ago

stack overflow is great if you want to be berated, given an irrelevant solution, and then have your question closed as a duplicate incorrectly

shoomba, 11 months ago

Exactly. It’s a good place to look for an answer, but if the answer isn’t there, save yourself from the angry mob and ask chatGPT.

Bleach7297, 11 months ago

It got eaten by ChatGPT and that other one

noodlejetski, 11 months ago

ChatGPT, probably.