I have tried to use SO on a few different occasions in the last year, and I’m running into an issue where (likely due to declining traffic and user interest) the quality of the answers is really poor because a lot of the information is for older versions of tools/languages/systems that have changed.

It’s a pretty clear indicator that the site is in a death spiral of

1. traffic falls 2. With fewer users, quality of answers falls 3. users can’t find good answers 4. GOTO 1