Good riddance. Whenever I search for a programming question I’d always hope for a) an official documentation page or, failing that, b) a page on a dedicated forum for the tool that I was using that covered the problem. I’d only ever click on SO links if I had no other choice.
And, of course, I’d never search for a problem on SO itself.
SO used to be good, but they have this problem right down in their core concept that makes sure the content gets outdated fast.
And that’s the concept that every question can only be asked once.
That makes sure that everything gets outdated as soon as possible.
Q: Can X be done in framework Y? (asked in 2012)
A: No.
Now it’s 13 years later, and framework Y can do X since 5 years, but you can’t ask again, because your question will get closed as a duplicate to the outdated one from 2012. And since every time someone asked this question again in the last 13 years the question just got closed, google will just link you back to the question from 2012 claiming that framework Y can’t do X.
I hate that so many projects are moving from public support forums to fucking Discord channels. God forbid a tech project be expected to maintain a public indexable forum and website. You can’t search it unless you join the channel, it’s not well organized at all, and the invite link probably expired 3 months ago. Fuck you if you didn’t join while it still worked I guess.
The LaTeX SE is also very useful. The official documentation of LaTeX and especially of third party packages, is often hard to read and it’s hard to find what you’re looking for. You can end up on the documentation on Overleaf,but they don’t go I to depth too much.
I almost always prefer SO answers because there was chance someone had the same issue I was seeing. Documentation only shows how things should work and dedicated forums are very hit or miss.
That’s the stupid SO concept that questions can only be asked once. It makes sure that only the question from 2012 with all its outdated answers is available while everyone who asks for an update will get their question closed.
That’s why SO was great in 2012 but its rules made sure it got outdated fast.
Good riddance. Whenever I search for a programming question I’d always hope for a) an official documentation page or, failing that, b) a page on a dedicated forum for the tool that I was using that covered the problem. I’d only ever click on SO links if I had no other choice.
And, of course, I’d never search for a problem on SO itself.
SO used to be good, but they have this problem right down in their core concept that makes sure the content gets outdated fast.
And that’s the concept that every question can only be asked once.
That makes sure that everything gets outdated as soon as possible.
Now it’s 13 years later, and framework Y can do X since 5 years, but you can’t ask again, because your question will get closed as a duplicate to the outdated one from 2012. And since every time someone asked this question again in the last 13 years the question just got closed, google will just link you back to the question from 2012 claiming that framework Y can’t do X.
I hate that so many projects are moving from public support forums to fucking Discord channels. God forbid a tech project be expected to maintain a public indexable forum and website. You can’t search it unless you join the channel, it’s not well organized at all, and the invite link probably expired 3 months ago. Fuck you if you didn’t join while it still worked I guess.
Eh, I hate its culture, but I regularly find useful excel or regex answers on StackExchange.
The LaTeX SE is also very useful. The official documentation of LaTeX and especially of third party packages, is often hard to read and it’s hard to find what you’re looking for. You can end up on the documentation on Overleaf,but they don’t go I to depth too much.
I almost always prefer SO answers because there was chance someone had the same issue I was seeing. Documentation only shows how things should work and dedicated forums are very hit or miss.
SO used to be really good in the past, but these days when I’m looking for an answer to a problem, I only unanswered closed questions.
That’s the stupid SO concept that questions can only be asked once. It makes sure that only the question from 2012 with all its outdated answers is available while everyone who asks for an update will get their question closed.
That’s why SO was great in 2012 but its rules made sure it got outdated fast.