[hazelnut]

I was wondering that too. Google Trends shows the following story: * COVID basically doubled the traffic (everybody stayed home and crafted something) * AI hit and the interest was cut in half.

I think that makes sense. You are less fiddling around and only need CodePen when you are really stuck but AI solves many problems now.

The shift from sharing little HTML/CSS/JS components to a website builder is probably their answer to this problem. They want to position themselves to compete with a Loveable, Replit and others. It's probably not the same, a little more technical, but the direction definitely shifted.

Source: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=codepen&date=all&geo=Wor...