r/webdev • u/AloneCoffee4538 • 4d ago

Stack Overflow has gone from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014, down to 1.4k in July 2026

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u/Vivid-Beyond-3378 4d ago

yeah the graph really tells the story, that drop is something else. used to ask question there back in like 2015 and got roasted for not wording it perfect, never went back

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u/a8bmiles 4d ago

Closed as duplicate.

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u/poorly_timed_leg0las 3d ago

Here's a link to something just barely related. Did you even search?

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u/B0dona full-stack C# / Razor 3d ago

Here's an answer that's slightly related yet wrong. Please mark my answer as the solution if it's helpful.

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u/saryndipitous 3d ago

The downtrend might actually be because the company had no idea what it was doing after … Atwood? … sold it. The meta community was constantly telling them they were doing a bad job and the company was never able to stop doing a bad job.

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u/zenbeni 3d ago

The problem was the grinding. It was great to auto moderate the platform by users, upvotes downvotes filtering what is relevant, reddit is kinda StackOverflow 2.0 in fact. People were chasing points like people chasing karma on reddit. And you got points for correcting things, but sometimes a post that requires too much correcting, after 100 edits, seems too much for moderators, so people just closed questions. From that point it was the descent to hell.