Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.
The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of 49 days.
What happened?
You know when the code compiles and does what you want it to do. What’s the point in asking for code if you’re not going to run it? You’d be doing that with anything you got off of Stack Overflow too, presumably.