I’m trying to find a place where you can ask broader development questions, not just specific error messages.
StackOverflow and Codidact are way too restrictive, if your question isn’t a precise technical issue with a reproducible example, it gets shut down immediately. Reddit and Lemmy seem more focused on news and memes; actual questions and discussions tend to just sink without engagement. And honestly, the kind of specific error-driven questions StackOverflow excels at are things AI can solve instantly now.
What I’m really looking for is a community (forum, Discord, whatever) where you can get help on broader topics related to software engineering.
Does anything like this still exist? Somewhere with actual humans willing to discuss the process of building software, not just fix syntax?
I have found a few communities on Matrix that fit that bill to some extent. For some reason they don’t devolve to “general chat” as quickly as most software related Discord servers do, in my experience.