Note: This is not an official question!
I'm posting the same question than this one but several months later. I know that, at least some of us, are still thinking about HNQ (see here, here and there) and I'm wondering what does the whole community think? If we could, would we want to be back on HNQ?
To have some data for this question (but you can already see it in the other links I posted) here is what I observe about the effect of the HNQ removal (these facts aren't backed up, it's just my personal experience of I feel things have changed):
Decrease in activity:
- Fewer questions
- Fewer answers (especially for questions who would have hit HNQ)
- Fewer upvotes
- Fewer chatty comments
- Fewer bad answers
TheI feel that the proportion of community moderators vs "regular users" has increased