[foepys]

Discussion might be slowly dying off because most questions have already been answered. Maybe StackOverflow reached a state where it is mostly done and implicitly transitioning into a Wikipedia-style programming encyclopedia. This should show up in the logs, maybe somebody here has enough reputation on SO to have access to them.

If that is the case then new questions are mostly on new frameworks and new languages which are often niche tags and don't have as much engagement as the popular tags once had.

Almost all questions newbies could ask are ripe for getting closed as duplicate and complicated questions are rarely getting answers since they require too much context to fit into SO's format.