Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by sevenseacat on Sunday January 04, 2026 @06:57AM (#46487130)

And that was the core problem with Stack Overflow - they wanted to build a system of core Q&As to be a reference, but everyone treated it as a "fix my very specific problem now".

99% of all the junk that got closed was just dumps of code and 'it doesn't work'. Not useful to anyone.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by immibis on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:22PM (#46492388)

And 99% of the other stuff, that wasn't just a code dump and "it doesn't work", was also closed.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by sevenseacat on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:04AM (#46510186)

Believe it or not, that's not correct :)

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