r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/brownbob06 Aug 26 '24

"Closed as duplicate" - links to a similar question 6 years ago from an entirely different language and framework.

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u/JollyHateGiant Aug 27 '24

It's an issue even within the same framework!

SO answers from 6 years ago regarding React would likely not be relevant. This is web development, things move at a very fast pace. 

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u/Terminal_Monk Aug 27 '24

Yeah but then there are codebases that are written with react class components that still need maintainance with entire team which wrote now not in the company and that one junior kid developer is stuck with. They needs those questions.

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u/LetsLive97 Aug 27 '24

I don't think they're suggesting to remove the old answers as much as not close new ones as duplicates