@bosco I think we can safely say that WPSE is dead from the view point of user engagement. I am sure moderators have a an access to actual stats which might say differetly, but most of front page questions are the bot, which for me indicates that people don't even use this site to ask questions

and since I use chatgpt alot now, I think there is a correletion here, chat gpt is way more productive than asking questions here, and I would guess that for most things its answer are as good as those you will get here

@MarkKaplun I was just sifting through the "Year in review" data in meta out of curiosity. It does sort of look like things were slowing down even prior to this year... I guess in retrospect things were feeling a bit quieter each time I returned. And most of the old-guard have moved on. It all bums me out a bit, albeit among many compounding issues.

site was going downhill for a while, guess there might be many reasons (gutenberg would be one for me) chatgpt just delivered a big blow IMO while the other reasons were small cuts. If you didn't try it yet, I recommend to give it a try, no idea about other technical areas but its WP related answers are high quality (should not copy/paste from it, but neither you should from WPSE)

I've tinkered with it a bit for mostly non-code things, but that was a model or two ago. I'll have to give it another run now that some time has passed. I've been using Co-pilot for many months now and I still can't figure out if it's helping or hurting me

Sometimes I really love it and others I despise it... but I guess that describes all tools, really

I was a big fan of Gutenberg those first couple years, but it had more to do with it's code and architecture and supporting tooling than anything else. I liked the DX and likely never gave the UX and impact on the project and ecosystem enough consideration

Nor, evidentally, the details of how it came to be a part of the WP project.

@bosco I plan to give copilot a try, but AFAIK it is based on latest moduls. I use chatgpt more for brainstorming and research, and sometimes it is just way faster than using duck to search

something that I asked it "when adding inline script in wordpress twice, will the code be added twice" for which I could just look at the code, but its answer was way faster

at this point it realy passes turing test, just shows what a low bar the test is :)

TBH I've noticed WP engagement down across the board. I think WP just hit a peak of stabilization where most the development specific questions and issues have been asked to death. Most the issues I see aren't development issues but config or 3rd user debug issues.

There's enough stable themes and page builders that building WP websites are now (luckily?) way less dev involved. Back in my day I was cutting up PSDs to HTML to Themes.

So, stabilization + the rise of AI (a faster search engine) = less community involvement IMO