The Fall of Stack Overflow
The Fall of Stack Overflow
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 repr...
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
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Anyone have any thoughts as to why? The data is great but no speculation as to the reason.
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ChatGPT and Bard?
They can answer most of the questions accurately, unless they are too specific.
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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.
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Try chatgpt 4 premium. I have heard it automatically auto correct itself with code.
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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.
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I haven't visited stack overflow since I started using chatgpt
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Actually, I started this thread to try to figure out why. Got some pretty cool responses
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I stopped using StackOverflow because of Reddit. The people over there are much friendlier and give better answers.
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