This is a huge drop off, and also a sign of what can happen when a bad aspect of the user base is left to grow unchecked.
I strove to be a nice person on Stack, because there were so many mean people who tore me down early in my career.
StackOverflow is laying off 28% of its workforce.
This may be the first large layoff directly due to AI:
> people asking ChatGPT instead of StackOverflow
> usage & ad revenue declines
> having to lay people off to stay profitable / survive