StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
- ID
- 40685
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 29 Oct 2026, 7:35 AM
- Fetched
- 29 Oct 2026, 3:46 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 6.0
- Created
- 29 Oct 2026, 3:46 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learners
What happened
A Hacker News submission titled "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month" links to a Stack Exchange Data Explorer query, and the thread drew 317 points and 268 comments. The linked page returned only a Cloudflare bot-verification screen, so the query itself, its date range, and the exact methodology could not be read here — the sub-1000-per-month figure comes from the submission title alone. Treat the number as an unverified claim until someone reruns the query.
Why it matters
If the title is accurate, the public Q&A corpus that coding assistants and search results are built on has effectively stopped growing at its old rate — so the troubleshooting answers your team relies on are increasingly being written into private chat threads instead of indexed pages. That argues for deliberately publishing your own fixes and postmortems somewhere durable (repo docs, a blog, an internal wiki you can grep), rather than only resolving them in an assistant session that nobody else can find later. The caveat is real: the query page was blocked, so confirm the 1000/month figure against a query you can actually run before quoting it.
Discussion angle
Where did your last five debugging answers come from — an assistant, a colleague, or a public Q&A page? If the answer is mostly assistants, what would make your team write the fix down publicly anyway?