The problems I’ve noticed with Stack Overflow are a few and hard for me to narrow down but basically:
- google used to return really relevant results for SO, and it stopped doing so at some point a while ago
- moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. can’t tell you how many times I found the exact, bizarre question I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively shutting it down for not being “on topic” enough or whatever.
- because of the previous bullet, oftentimes the best answer is buried in comments and has very negative feedback despite answering the exact question
Due to a combination of these things, filtering against the noise for what I wanted became increasingly more difficult and often the solution to my problem was easier found searching github comments or random blogs.
- google used to return really relevant results for SO, and it stopped doing so at some point a while ago
- moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. can’t tell you how many times I found the exact, bizarre question I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively shutting it down for not being “on topic” enough or whatever.
- because of the previous bullet, oftentimes the best answer is buried in comments and has very negative feedback despite answering the exact question
Due to a combination of these things, filtering against the noise for what I wanted became increasingly more difficult and often the solution to my problem was easier found searching github comments or random blogs.