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?

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation

    (This is a lesson in history, so I’ll let the discerning reader to decide for themselves whether there is sarcasm contained in it)