With a massive drop in questions, what happens if we maintain the status quo?
As far as I know, SE's main sourcesources of revenuesrevenue are:
- Stack Overflow for Teams (SaaS)
- Data Licensing
- Stack Overflow Advertising
The number of questions plunging means a sharp decline in revenue 2, since data licensing is only useful to get access to content published after the latest data dump.
I assume the traffic is also taking a dive, which means revenue 3 is also sinking. Related: Is there a web traffic statistics page for SE and if so where is it?
Remains revenue 1 (Stack Overflow for Teams). The sustainability of Stack Exchange currently depends on it.