As someone with many gold awards and notable questions, I stopped participating in stack overflow when they decided to withhold our open data from us. Our deal was that I spend time and effort asking quality questions and providing quality answers for free in return for open (free speech, not free beer) access to the entire qa dataset.

The new owners either did not understand this arrangement or did not value it enough. I now have my kwix backups and my open weight LLM. This should be more than enough to hold me over until a stack exchange substitute pops up.