I honestly fail to see your point ... or, perhaps, to connect the data that you present with any compelling plan of action.

But it is pretty darned great that the site now has 1.3 million posts!   Since the very beginnings of popular-Internet time.

People have lots of ways to communicate with one another ... more than they have ever had.   They don’t spend time on forums like they used to.   They have other ways to socialize.

However:   sometimes, their objectives are quite purposeful.   They are responsible for, or are writing, a Perl application.   They need an answer, a really great answer, and they need it right-now.   Now, the value of the web-site that they GOTO is not tied to popularity, post or hit counts:   it is tied to effectiveness.   How good of an answer can they get (by all points:   “technically accurate,” “well-rounded,” “considered, ” etc.), and how fast can they get it?

And I would quite-frankly say that there is, and always has been, o-n-e site on the Internet which best fulfills that mission ... and that your web-browser is sitting on it, right now.

(Face it, how many web-sites out there have any sort of “mission” at all, other than to attract hit-counts for erstwhile advertisers?)   :-/

This isn’t the place to talk about World War III or the politics of your country, and the site does not particularly encourage this.   It does not publish a taxonomy nor provide a water-cooler.   If the “post counts” are not climbing so rapidly as they did when there was nothing out there, so what, really?   To me, it should always come down to:   how effective are we, at answering Perl questions?   (And, of what quality are the “1.3 million focused posts” that we today can Super Search?)

On that score, this site has a lot to be proud of ... and, a history(!) of being so.

Please, set forth your proposals for what specifically you would do for the site, to further broaden or expand its mission or whatever-else you wish to bring to the table.   No one here will question that you have earned your ticket.   But, do post-counts, alone, really carry your point?   Does the introduction of a “water cooler” section improve the quality of the vast database, or actually dilute it?   I am very interested, yet so-far skeptical and unpersuaded.