Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• slate@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Removed. Someone else already said this before. Also, please ensure you stick to the stlye guides next time, and be less ambiguous. SO could mean a plethora of things.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Spoiler

    last time this question was answered was for several years older software versions, and the old solutions don’t work anymore

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    • comador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      SO PTSD is real.

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      • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You have been banned for off topic low effort conversation.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Git gud, n00b!

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      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In a video covering the toxicity of Stackoverflow, it was found ot at least some of the admins are also extremely toxic on other sites, in that same exact manner.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was in the middle of making a reply like this but yours is better. Closed as duplicate.

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• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I will never forget the time I posted a question about why something wasn’t working as I expected, with a minimal example (≈ 10 lines of python, no external libraries) and a description of the expected behaviour and observed behaviour.

  The first three-ish replies I got were instant comments that this in fact does work like I would expect, and that the observed behaviour I described wasn’t what the code would produce. A day later, some highly-rated user made a friendly note that I had a typo that just happened to trigger this very unexpected error.

  Basically, I was thrashed by the first replies, when the people replying hadn’t even run the code. It felt extremely good to be able to reply to them that they were asshats for saying that the code didn’t do what I said it did when they hadn’t even run it.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn, lol

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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yea it sucks, but quality is important so I get it.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do understand being rigorous about questions, and technical forums were even worse a lot of the time, but SO’s methods led to the site becoming severely outdated. They really should have introduced a mechanism to mark old content as outdated. It should have been obvious like 10 years ago that solutions often stop working come next major version or the programming language, framework or operating system.

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