Disclaimer: I'm in the Top 1% of StackOverflow contributors with 23,315 rep points. I asked 1 high-quality question in 2024, and it was closed almost immediately, and I haven't engaged with the site since. If someone with 20,000+ karma has their nicely-formatted questions closed so quickly, what must the newbies and rank-in-file encounter? This is probably a big reason why it's declining. In March 2023 when this article was published, StackOverflow received 87,105 new questions. By March 2024, t...