The rise and fall of StackOverflow

The rise and fall of stackoverflow can be seen in the following charts.

First the number of questions over time:

Rising to a peak in early 2014 the trend has been downward and since the proliferation of LLMs in 2022 has seen a sharper drop.

Here is the chart of anwers over time:

Stackoverflow was bought in June 2021 by Prosus Nv.

References:

• https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
• https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1927310/answers-over-time#graph
• https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/02/stack-overflow-acquired-by-prosus-for-a-reported-1-8-billion/