Perhaps a modal the first time someone visits that shows the different UI options and directions on where to switch

I see new content every day, and that is after blocking a lot of instances that aren’t relevant to my taste. I don’t think this place is dead, it just needs more of those 48k to contribute.

No one has mentioned it from what I can see but I highly recommend the courses provided by https://www.mooc.fi/en/. It’s the university of Helsinki and it’s completely free. They offer both Java and Python courses. I believe they have an introduction to programming course that is done in Python.