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> "Recently, a graph of the total number of Stack Overflow questions over time started making rounds on the internet"

Isn't that a graph of questions per timeframe, not total questions? If it was total questions, that would imply a massive cull of existing questions, not a decline in usage



"New questions over time", I suppose, was the intended phrasing; and yes.

Also, this is a new set of "rounds" it's making. Graphs like this have been getting shopped around off and on for a few years now.

Previous rounds of discussion famously include https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433864 . The decline was even noted before ChatGPT, e.g. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/413657.




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