How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found. The post How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/

Created 3y | Dec 30, 2021, 4:24:19 PM


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