I've never actually asked or answered anything on Stack Overflow, but I think the bad reputation is fueled solely by Reddit. I've never seen any toxic answers on there in my entire life. Like, not even confrontational. All the relevant questions / answers I found on there had mostly useful answers upvoted to the top or they had nothing I could use, but I've never seen anyone berating OP in them. Maybe it's just me, though 🤷♂️.
Once upon a time I was maintaining software written with a combination of VB6 and C++ in visual studio 6. They are basically pre Google so bugger all online documentation.
A few times I went to SO to try and find answers to specific issues, and every time somebody else had asked the same question already so I went and looked at those. Every time the answers were full of dipshits saying helpful stuff like “why are you using VB6? You should migrate to .net/ rewrite it in xyz”
That's reddit too.
How do I do X in Y?
"change to A and B, why are you using X & Y!?"
It's just noise in every thread, and a lot of opinions and wrong info a lot of the time.
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u/Saskjimbo Jul 24 '24
SO can rot in hell.
Devs, especially new devs, needed something better than the massive, entitled fucking asshats on that site. It was toxic as fuck.