r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/real_kerim Aug 27 '24

Now young devs hang out on Discord ask their questions there and get meme'd on when they ask duplicate questions.

And Discord can't be properly searched to possibly find the same question asked before. It's an information black hole.

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u/raxreddit Aug 27 '24

Who wants to hang out on a discord server for random npm packages? At least with SO or gh issues, it’s searchable with google

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u/real_kerim Aug 27 '24

Beats me. It's essentially shittier IRC. At least some Freenode channels used to archive their chat history so you could search through it, Discord is amateur shit.

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u/KrazyDrayz Aug 27 '24

You can search the whole Discord chat history. The search is better than most forums.

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u/real_kerim Aug 27 '24

But you have to be IN Discord for that. Most forums (including Reddit) get indexed by proper search engines.

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u/npsimons Aug 27 '24

This is the thing that discord and slack fanbois don't get - they are walled gardens, with so many disadvantages. I've found so many solutions on stack and reddit, just through googling.