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Either it's ChatGPT or it's all the layoffs. You don't need StackOverflow if you're not working

Well, if such a "tiny" reduction in workforce (certainly less than 12% or 60%) has led to such a traffic decrease on StackOverflow, I guess the layoffs have targeted those who significantly use SO for their day-to-day work.

Thus, if you don't want to get laid off in the next round, stop using StackOverflow ;)

What if the 12% were answering questions - not asking o.O. Hell, I'd rather a person go through the effort/thought process of asking a _good_ question to get closer to the answer they might be looking for.

I imagine majority of the SO visitors are neither asking nor answering questions, but only looking up answers for questions somebody else posted.

I can, however, come up with scenarious where company would choose either cohort for layoffs (so you are helping engineers from other companies on company dime?).

Still, I was completely tongue in cheek regarding causation and mostly noting that it is unlikely to be any correlation there.

Google is also placing SO lower in their search results for me. Used to be consistently #1 and now it's behind some other blogs / tutorial sites.

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