[peacetreefrog]

I think Stack Overflow is great and it's helped me a lot in the past, but I'm not sure how useful it'll be in the future. I've been learning Elm the past few weeks and have noticed a lack of good SO questions and answers on it. It's a smaller community, but I also think many people go to the Elm Slack channel to ask their questions, which they get in realtime.

Not sure if that's just an Elm thing. A language specific Slack is useful in the moment (probably moreso than SO) because you get a real time answer and can ask follow ups etc, but I can't help but think there's a ton of knowledge/people asking similar questions that is just disappearing into the ether. Makes picking things up harder for more people long term.

[SahAssar]

That's the problem with platforms like slack, the question is decoupled from the answer and it usually isn't archived in a searchable way. The next person googling that question will have to ask it again instead of just looking up the answer.

[klenwell]

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to pick up some SO karma. Just try not to spend it all in one place.