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
I bet this is directly related to ChatGPT
I think it's the junior dev blog spam and search results putting them higher.
Maybe I would post more if I didn't get ignored, or my questions immediately get marked to be closed without comment.
I've had an account for almost 10 years that I use at least every other day at work, and have seen plenty of questions I CAN answer but apparently don't have the "reputation" to.
Honestly a really dumb system imo.
Stack Overflow reached its maximum "duplicates". So new users arent engaged on asking anything because it is of course already a duplicate of xyz.
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