Traffic on StackOverflow falls ~12% in the last week

2. How is the extrapolation done? ("If one were to extrapolate...")

3. The headline (12% drop in the last week) contradicts the body of the post (60% of a 12% difference in the last week).

It would not surprise me in the slightest if Stack Overflow was becoming less popular. However, without more details the post comes across as just pulling numbers out of thin air.

However, there is a broader falling trend in traffic dating back to ~2019, if I remember correctly.

what it means if true: the SO traffic grows but slower than some implicit "before chatgpt" model predicts.