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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
Pretty incredible. What happened in early 2022? It was not yet the time of GPTs, so?
Github copilot
It doesn't look to be a decline at all (quite healthy on the contrary) until around the time ChatGPT was released.
Where exactly am I supposed to go for programming questions if SO goes under? I don't suppose there's a Fediverse equivalent?
I mostly end up with answers from a handful of top tier devs.. I'm kind of glad they prevent junk and noise so I get the answers I need, ymmv
I can see for myself that I go way less often since I use github copilot