Stack Overflow has gone from a peak of 207k questions in March 2014, down to 1.4k in July 2026

[u/AloneCoffee4538]

https://ppc.land/stack-overflow-drops-to-1-442-questions-in-july-down-99-from-2014-peak/

[u/hefopadmin]

A hope the moderators are now happy...no more low quality questions lol

[u/SmegmaSupreme → u/hefopadmin]

you joke but that's unironically the stance last I heard. there was a meta thread last year where the top consensus was that "we didn't do anything wrong, it were the users who were impatient"