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?
There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?
It would make sense on piefed, since you can mark responses as “answers”