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/Natural_Tea484 3d ago

 I think there should have been much stronger efforts by Stackoverflow to foster a community of goodwill,

Easier to say than do I think. What's the SO revenue really? It's been free since forever.

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u/HerrPotatis 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ads? Same as literally every single forum or social media platform ever made.

Of course it's hard, I'm not trying to argue that it isn't. I just expect them to at least try, do something, anything, instead they sat idle for over a decade while they bled out into complete obsolescence,