Ever since StackOverflow started closing strictly off topic questions that were interesting and still related to programming (closed as not constructive, or locked and marked as having "historical significance" such as https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-langua...) the sense of community there pretty much disappeared. There's not much incentive for knowledgable people to visit a site that is boring, and now StackOverflow seems to contain a lot more questions asked by noobs (I've done this about subjects I don't know) that go unanswered.
The same also goes for questions that are almost duplicates. Or are basically but have been inactive so you want to get further information. And when interesting discussions get moved to chat. The whole place is just boring and too heavily controlled. I"m not surprised something that required community failed there.
The same also goes for questions that are almost duplicates. Or are basically but have been inactive so you want to get further information. And when interesting discussions get moved to chat. The whole place is just boring and too heavily controlled. I"m not surprised something that required community failed there.