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by Netcob 1963 days ago
My experiences with Stack Overflow until recently:

- Using it as a useful resource for small issues

- Seeing memes about how programmers essentially just copy/paste code from Stack Overflow all day long

- Reading comments about how Stack Overflow is severely outdated and any question will be shut down immediately

And then I had an issue with library A which was using library B but had a small inconsistency in how it used it that made my use case very difficult. So I posted a question. The developer of library B appeared, agreeing that it's a problem. Followed by the developer of library A, who agreed as well and said the fix would be in the next release. 2-3 days later, my bug was fixed by updating library A.

With a sample of one, that doesn't really say anything, my view of that website is a bit biased now.