Comment by enriquto

Interestingly, the site stopped growing at about the same time when the "fun killers" [0] took hand of it. Notably, when they deleted the all-time highest voting question "New programming jargon you coined?".

This blatantly undemocratic and destructive behavior was of course duely punished by the (former) users of the site.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/