Maybe you and I wanted different things from it and you still find it useful, but I haven’t really enjoyed it for many years. I loved it over a decade ago, these days I generally avoid it.
I was surprised by this purchase for that reason alone. I must be missing something. Stack must be way more useful and active than I realize, for reasons I’m unaware of.
I find the community pretty abrasive mostly.
The more experienced I got, the less useful I found it. These days, if I’m stuck, most of the time so is everybody else reading my question.
Quite often it’s actually because I’ve encountered a bug with whatever framework I’m using, or a mistake in the documentation.
I find raising an GitHub issue more useful than asking on SO.
It’s still great as a knowledge bank thought, as others have pointed out most of the time when you Google an issue the answer will be on SO. The only issue there is when the top rated/accepted question is actually no longer correct, or best practice, as the language/framework has changed or evolved.
With that said, it's still extremely useful. It makes my job easier and saves me a ton of time.
I will mercilessly soft-rewrite and spelling/formatting correct every question and answer into oblivion if I can be bothered, and find the issue annoying enough.
I treat SO like a Wikipedia of sorts, so presentation is important. Each topic will inevitably be read by a thousand other people in the future, so I might as well leave it looking presentable. It's a commons thing. "Don't leave trash behind and clean up if others didn't", basically.
Source: https://youtu.be/KZkYSSE8HHI
Personally, I have never heard anyone say SO is not that good anymore, and certainly not that it is dead/dying.
Yep. SO has been read-only for me for years.
When I need help with something it's usually advanced enough to merit a Github issue otherwise I seek Slack/IRC/Discord/Gitter comunities of the technology I'm having trouble with.
they have some good sides too though.
Why?
