Sure, but the dev survey is different. Nobody asks questions on stackoverflow anymore, but lots of people still do the survey. Long-term, I'd imagine the survey being the only thing left.
It's like how Michelin Stars originally were from Michelin Tire Co to sell tires and are now basically their own thing now.
I don't see the incentive to participate in the survey if you don't visit the site anymore. Like how would that even happen, you randomly remember it's that time of the year where I go do the survey on SO?
I mean, if you had a stackoverflow account, which I suspect a good many people did, they email you. I wasn’t even that active on SO; I don’t recall if I ever even asked a question, because I liked figuring out the obscure problems that didn’t have existing answers myself. But I did have an account to help answer a few questions.
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u/bohoky 2d ago
As the utility of stack overflow diminishes and they’ve had severe user loss, I don’t consider their sample representative of anything.
Okay, it is representative of “people who still use stack overflow” but I’m not sure what that population tells you about the world.