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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by f311a on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:41PM (#46483043)
People overestimate the impact of toxicity on number of monthly questions. The initial growth was due to missing answers. After some time there is a saturation point where all basic questions are already answered and can be found via Google. If you ask them again they are marked as dups.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by EugeneOZ on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:29PM (#46483422)
That would be true if no new technologies were created every year (even more often).
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by 3eb7988a1663 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:02PM (#46484034)
You do not find the 2009 jQuery answer satisfying?
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by f311a on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:06AM (#46488087)
There are new technologies, but if you look at the most viewed questions, they will be about Python, JS, Java, C, and C++ without libraries.
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