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LabVIEW is not dead yet but it definitely feels like it's getting ready to move to retirement community. I am skeptical that the redesign that comes out in the future will do anything to reverse the trend. I also just think that the closed and proprietary nature of LabVIEW will grow into a heavier and heavier millstone around its neck. You can argue all you want about how in certain situations LabVIEW can save money by reducing development time and increasing productivity. The thing is IME people don't think in those terms. However irrational it is, in my experience it seems that people would rather spend man-hours than dollars, as the man-hours are already paid for and more or less "free" from the manager's point of view. LabVIEW will hang on in certain niches and legacy systems but the dream of "LabVIEW everywhere" to me seems dead.

For me personally, I started doing a lot more development with TestStand when I started my new job 2 years ago. Since I had zero TestStand experience most of my time/energy has been spent coming up to speed on TestStand so I was over at the NI forums for that. My need for advanced LabVIEW topics has been very small and my need to pose a question that has yet to be asked is even smaller. I have found that my questions have already been asked by someone else in the past so the need to create a new topic is far less than before. That does bring to mind a thought...search engines have become much more better over the last few years and on top of that people have become better at forming queries for search engines too. Perhaps we see less new topics been created because the existing one's answer the questions sufficiently and the users can use that to answer the question. Can you get a plot of # of views of a topic? Or maybe updates to old topics? I also love LAVAG for my LabVIEW questions. I want it to stay. Answering the specific question posed, the only other space (other than NI.com) for LabVIEW content is the LabVIEW Maker Hub (https://www.labviewmakerhub.com/). Its less Q&A for issues and more neat projects type of stuff. In my personal time I find myself spending more time with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino related forums because it's relevant to the toys I am using.