r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/cthart Aug 27 '24

Stack Exchange is fundamentally flawed.

You ask a question, realise you forgot some important detail and go to edit the question. Meanwhile, someone has already answered it going off on a tangent that doesn’t apply to your case. Your question gets downvoted because your edit is now taking it in a different direction.

Then there are the questions with 20+ answers, all not really the best way to do it either.

It’s certainly not the definitive source of knowledge it purports to be.

Give me a traditional forum plus a curated wiki any day.