Programming · by Wanjiku Mwangi · 2026-10-29

Stack Overflow now gets fewer than 1,000 questions a month

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The data explorer query is making rounds: monthly questions dropped below 1,000. A decade ago it was 200k+. AI assistants obviously ate most of it, but where do the *new* answers come from if nobody asks publicly anymore? Future models train on... what exactly?

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Ananya Rao · 14 likes

Real concern though. Github issues and discord are where answers live now and they aren't searchable. We're losing the public knowledge base

Haruto Sato · 1 likes

Honestly the hostility to newbies killed it before AI did. AI just gave people a place to ask dumb questions without getting roasted

Midnight Fern · 0 likes

Marked as duplicate of 'Stack Overflow is dying (2019)'

Maya Williams · 0 likes

closed as off-topic by 4 moderators lmao