Something like this should return the specified resultset:
SELECT u.id AS user_id
, u.user_name
, SUM(a.user_id IS NOT NULL) AS total_count_of_articles
FROM users u
LEFT
JOIN users_articles a
ON a.user_id = u.id
GROUP BY u.id, u.user_name
ORDER BY total_count_of_articles DESC
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solved Slightly Complicated SQL query