I knew that stack overflow must be suffering because of AI, but I find it hard to believe that questions asked per month has gone from 200k pre-chatbot to (what appears to be) ~1k. Although, I suppose I have not gone there at all in the last 4 years...

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e28eta 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Clicking through to the query for the first chart, I see the peak of ~300k in May of 2020, and it was ~3k in April of 2026 (the last complete month). I’m flabbergasted.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/193252...

	▲	janalsncm 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For perspective, 300k per month is one new question every 9 seconds. 3k per month is one question every 15 minutes.
	▲	NoMoreNicksLeft 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nah.... surely not. [looking at the link] Holy shitsnacks... I gotta be reading this wrong. Is it really dying? Like seriously, wtf. The Ghost of Expert Sexchange gets its revenge.

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IAmGraydon 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It makes sense to me. There's literally no use for Stack Overflow anymore. LLMs, for all their faults, are a far better way to get answers to coding problems.

	▲	jrflo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's just rare to see something accelerate to zero like that. I feel like most dying products have a fade out over time where there still remains a niche use for them, they don't nosedive to almost nothing.