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Contributions are already on a precipitous decline, both overall, and from high-rep users; one can assume this change will hasten decline for contributors who are passionate about their creations' licensing & future use.

Contributions are already on a precipitous decline, both overall, and from high-rep users; one can assume this change will hasten decline for contributors who are passionate about their creations' licensing & future use. I sometimes think of "votes cast" as a measure of engagement (people who care enough to give feedback), or helpfulness (This worked/didn't work), or even just presence--the number of votes cast is also in free-fall.

Assuming that the most valuable contributions come from high-reputation users, those folks have already stopped posting on the site.

Contributions are already on a precipitous decline, both overall, and from high-rep users; one can assume this change will hasten decline for contributors who are passionate about their creations' licensing & future use.

On March 28, 2023, the Data Dump was disabled at the direction of the Prashanth Chandrasekar, the Stack Overflow CEO. At the time, I was on the DBRE team at Stack Overflow, and I was the person who the CEO directed to disable the upload to Archive.org. That conversation ended as thus. This is a direct transcript of our conversation--I've removed a single back/forth for brevity, represented as ...:

On March 28, 2023, the Data Dump was disabled at the direction of Prashanth Chandrasekar, the Stack Overflow CEO. At the time, I was on the DBRE team at Stack Overflow, and I was the person who the CEO directed to disable the upload to Archive.org. That conversation ended as thus. This is a direct transcript of our conversation--I've removed a single back/forth for brevity, represented as ...: