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I have been using less SO over the years, as more and more libraries and even programming languages have their own Discord servers. And there it’s easier and quicker to get a specialised reply, with less judgement or responses like “already answered in thread X”
But Discord is a chat. How it replaces QA website?
Imo the high ranking people today on SO are annoying as fuck and on a power trip. I haven’t asked question in a long time and I had a unique situation and asked the question. Within seconds some guy adds some snarky unhelpful and honestly toxic reply and I had to repost my question. I ran a quick survey and found others who have had similar experiences and I feel this is terrible for newbies and even people like me w…
Whenever a community gets large enough that people start to care about their status within that community you get people who just want to throw around their authority.
In Stackoverflow's case though the value of the site comes from how helpful the user base is. I think part of the reason a lot of devs are asking questions on places like Reddit and discord servers these days is because you're less likely to deal with some dickhead picking holes with how you formatted your question before some power user comes along and closes the thread completely before you have an answer.
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Stack Overflow had the best intentions by making their data available for download. The only outcome is see from that attitude is it fueled hundreds of spammy SO clones with names like “nerdsolution” and “geekanswer”. We’d be better iff with SO keeping the data private.
Wait, hasn't it always been a (public) website ?
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One of the reasons ChatGPT is so refreshing is the lack of toxic replies.
ChatGPT may not feel outright toxic but easily devolves into a buttheaded condescending nanny if you try to push some of it's "moral" boundaries. I tried to have it help me come up with ideas for a programming language that would be used to spite employers and or coworkers. Boy did I get a lesson about my negative attitude.
Personally the only websites I see displacing SO on Google results are sites that reuse SO content and game Google to get ad revenue.
Imo the high ranking people today on SO are annoying as fuck and on a power trip. I haven’t asked question in a long time and I had a unique situation and asked the question. Within seconds some guy adds some snarky unhelpful and honestly toxic reply and I had to repost my question. I ran a quick survey and found others who have had similar experiences and I feel this is terrible for newbies and even people like me w…
HN was the nicest to me so far, then Reddit, and SO ranks the last.
There are a handful of decent[ish] tags
Most of it is total garbage