This may be the reason s w seems dead

Dead or alive this place doesn't run my life, but some people invest more of themselves for their own reasons.

As far as decline in traffic, others have already commented that political trollposting could be a factor. I think that's accurate. Most of the partisan content here is predictable, irrational, deliberately false, boring AF - or all of the above.

BUT - no one should think this is unique to SW and it's notorious sketchyness. In fact, traffic and referals are falling hard in nearly all social media platforms across the web.