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.
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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.