Do you use it? Do you like it? If you don’t like it, do you think it can be improved sufficiently or should it ideally be replaced with something else?
What do you think of the broader StackExchange community as a whole?
Say what you want about overzealous moderators, it is an incredibly useful resource. It’s easy to take it for granted but I remember the days before SO and it was much harder to find good answers to programming questions.
In theory it could be replaced with something else but good moderation and a very product-oriented leadership (mostly programmers, not MBA types) is what made SO what it is. These intangible “soft” qualities are the hard part - it would be easy to duplicate its technology.
I’ve found Stack Exchange to be an amazing resource overall; be it StackOverflow for programming questions, rpg.stackexchange, or working out some issue on math.stackexchange - having the ability to quickly search across thousands of questions that were asked in the past has helped me immensely. I still remember my early days of asking VB for A questions and getting some great help there
Since it’s closed-source software, why even discuss it among FOSS enthusiasts when there are good open-source alternatives available?
By the way it’s @entropicshart@lemmy.world fault that I answered to a post this old. He’s the necromancer.
I was wondering why I was reading a three year old response :P
I get most of my code from StackOverflow. Sometimes from the answers too.
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