I've posted some neat stuff there and I find they're so caught up in politics they don't tend to the basic information... not just my posts but the neat stuff... the bread and butter of any site. However it doesn't get through to their crowd so much as it does here... people here are more receptive to material that isn't political.
Disclaimer: I am not saying you have smarter people here as a whole but it sometimes seems that way.
It was limping along, a mixture of good and bad until I think it was The_Donald migration. Now the news sub is just full of links to suspect news pages. It's become a giant echo chamber of bigotry and conspiracy theories. The subs that used to have good discussions have gone quiet. I'd rather have a site like this where we can joke around and have actual discussions.
PS: don't remember if I thanked you for introducing me to AtlasObscura (when you used to post links to it on goatland) previously or not Owlcherry, but it has become a go to site for me to see unique places.