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Your first paragraph says more about you than about the site.

It's a bit of a humblebrag... but I think he's TRYING to say that meaningful StackOverflow activity seems to have stagnated in recent years, and he hopes to see an uptick.

It could also be the "normal" stuff has been asked many times over and he might be into a very niche/obscure topic.

I have a question that I was my own answer on. It was pretty obscure (pageant/cygwin specific) and when I finally found the answer I cited the 2 sources I used hoping it would save others time in the future with an easier google than what I went through

Right. Can't count the hours stack overflow saved for me although I'm disappointed by the lack of response.

The most popular answers and questions tend to be new things in popular SDK's. The unanswered things are deeper problems in existing API's. You either get an answer in a very short term by multiple people or nothing at all.

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