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> There was a time (first 6 months in the life of StackOverflow) where pretty much all questions would get answers within minutes.

This is now the case on younger sites of the StackExchange network. For instance, <http://french.stackexchange.com/unanswered>; is pretty much always empty.



SO used to have new questions every 20 minutes or so. The French Exchange seems to have (on average) few questions per day.


SO now has new questions every 20 seconds or so (not an exaggeration - an understatement if anything). A high percentage are still answered, but in absolute terms, the number of unanswered questions is obviously increasing.




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