What are the worst things about StackOverflow for you?
Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
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Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#21. The licensing situation is a mess. Most people copy/paste and they don't realize what the license is (CC BY-SA).
2. Why aren't answers always sorted by the number of votes by default?
3. The "community edits" where people sometimes decrease the quality of an answer just to get points.
4. Some answers don't age well but they are perpetuated by their large vote count.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#3Impatience and hostility with new users.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#41> You didn't ask the question in the right place, go and ask your question over in vaguely defined other place
2> You didn't ask the question in the right way, or are on the wrong platform, OS version, etc.
3> The tons and tons of ads.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#5The bureaucracy. I understand that they want some rules and processes, but their community is extremely hostile towards newcomers who don't do things correctly.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#6Nazi moderators closing valuable discussions just because they can.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#7Not directly with StackOverflow but when I search for something, usually I meet with outdated results on google. For e.g. if I search for something on iOS/Android, I usually get results from 2011-13 which don't add any value because frameworks have been updated since then.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#8Not their fault but old answers really suck. A 2016 answer about Azure is useless. Even a 2016 answer about react.
Also it’s a trope that the select answer isn’t always the best so there is a meta conversation about what is the “really best” answer
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#9The misuse of the site. The amount of people not following the rules and/or skipping tour is astonishing.
Open SO, choose any popular tag and just wait. In a hour you will see a dozen of "do homework for me", "what's wrong with my code" and "explain this very basic thing to me eli5". Not to mention things explained in introductory lessons of any decent tutorial or things answered by first search result.
Not to mention bad grammar and even worse formatting.
Minimal, reproducible example is just a dream.
Re: Ask HN: In your opinion, what sucks about StackOverflow
#10Not being able to ask the same question over time.
The best thing about reddit (imo) is being able to search for a question, and see how the solution the community came up with evolved over time.