Stack Overflow Website Traffic

This graph is misinformation

Although we have seen a small decline in traffic, in no way is it what the graph is showing (which some have incorrectly interpreted to be a 50% or 35% decrease). This year [2023], overall, we're seeing an average of ~5% less traffic compared to 2022.

Original comment by jo3rn@discuss.tchnics.de

It will recover when AI learns sneering condescension.

Wonder where chatgpt will get its training data in the future, as it's known not to extrapolate well. Where will it learn new frameworks, languages, ... from?

I've been on SO like ten times altogether since ChatGPT came out. It's so much nicer than the condescending pricks of Stack Overflow. My favourite is when some genius links a question as a duplicate of something that's vaguely similar.

Closed as duplicate

Down voted. If you're just going to post a screenshot, you must include a link to the source. This is a link sharing platform.

The irony of it all is SO making deals for AI to scrape their site for machine learning but in doing so more people are using chatgpt and copilot more because it's easier and just as accurate. AI/ML is really going to destroy these websites and yet it's the websites signing off on their own death sentences.

It’s also around the time they did away with their jobs board thing isn’t it? I got a job through it in 2021 and somewhere after that they sunset it, which was an insane business decision because it was the best job search platform out there.

Just wait until there's no stack overflow to scrape.

Isn’t this when Safari and Firefox started blocking third party trackers by default?

Chat GPT is wonderful as a search engine for SO. It regurgitates the answers in a format easier to incorporate into your own project.

The thing I'm worried about is a lack of new answers. You need data to train an LLM, what to do if nobody is producing it?

But can ChatGPT downvote answers into oblivion?

I'm raising their traffic,by slowly poisoning my answers & questions.

Guilty <-

Interesting. I actually thought of it as a replacement for Google. With Google search being broken for years it's the only easy way to get information now.

Do they actually publish this data?

Yeah. When I need additional insights on a difficult technical configuration, it's nice to be able to speak to an artificial insufferable dipshit, rather than a real human insufferable dipshit.

The AI ones continue helping me even after I explain to them how they come across to real humans. (I do my best not to mention it to the insufferable Human dipshits, of course.)

Is this finally the dusk of SO? It helps alot, but also suck alot.

The first dip is all of us back filling answers with "F U ChatGPT" and getting temporarily banned :)

I hope every contractor and employee who has ever worked for that shit hole goes bankrupt, loses their home in a foreclosure auction and spends the rest of their life begging for handouts on the street.