something is strange on serverfault... the "Top Questions" are kinda old, makes me believe the site isn't active anymore. on the first 10 questions, 2 were asked today, one from 6 months ago, and all the others are 3 years old or more. One is more than 9 years old...

community bot really wants the "Necromancer" badge to be issued...

@ThoriumBR Which page do you mean by "Top Questions"?

it's the main page, the one that shows when you get to serverfault.com

Okay, yes, that's interesting.

Almost all of them are just Community bumped questions

yep!

that "Starting RRAS service blocks RDP access to RRAS server on internal interface?" is from a decade ago...

"Asked 10 years, 4 months ago"

someone have to tune the Community bot to not bump those ancient questions to main page...

@ThoriumBR Their chat looks half dead too

yep... it's full of 2 days later… and 4 days later…

I guess serverfaults scope just got divided between several sites

@nobody a lot of the old core community left

Various SE dramas

@JourneymanGeek Well, the same is mostly true here too. But we have newer users filling in the gap

I mean, our old core community does drop by sometimes, but it's mostly new people here now (with a few exceptions)

Its a path not chosen, but If I'd gotten hired as a CM, I'd likely have made bringing those folks back a personal project ;)

@JourneymanGeek Would bringing them back be enough? It doesn't look like the site gets enough questions anymore. People would just keep going to infosec, superuser and unix&linux, which covers a lot of their scope

@nobody it would be a start

@nobody well there's a few folks with useful/unique skillsets

@JourneymanGeek I wonder how you would go about doing that

and I think it would be enough critical amss

@nobody the unique thing I have

I know where to find them, and people trust me

@JourneymanGeek That's true. You're probably the most widely trusted person network-wide.

I mean, I don't know if it would work

but I'd at least give it a shot ;)

Did all the people who left ever converge on another Q/A site? I looked at the topcoder/codidact sites some time ago and they seemed to be a lot less active than sec.SE

Naw

If they had, I'd have heard