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    Fewer visitors means fewer users, which leads to less participation and ultimately leads to less advertising revenue. Commented May 4, 2025 at 18:31
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    This answer in the MSO A Gamified Coding Challenge Feature for Stack Overflow? We Want Your Feedback! says Stack Overflow is most useful when there is no need to "actively contribute", meaning passive readers. I.e. if existing questions still bring in visits from passive readers that could still lead to advertising revenue even if the rate of new questions declines. Commented May 4, 2025 at 18:45
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    "Knowing where would-be askers are going is of little importance." True. But where the would-be answerers are going might be relevant. For Electrical Engineering, for instance, some of the high-profile answerers moved to Codidact. Commented May 5, 2025 at 6:23
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    The quality of the top 10% best content is likely correlated to the overall content. If we just lost the worst 90% of potential new content, it would be a net win maybe, but that seems an unlikely assumption. Commented May 6, 2025 at 21:01
  • Answer volume should be 10× higher, so that we can finish all the backlog within months. Commented Jan 23 at 11:47