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by mattlondon 1849 days ago
Is stack overflow even useful anymore? I guess it must be for some.

Personally for me it feels like the content is pretty "stale". E.g. an answer from 5 years ago that uses a deprecated feature in a library that was abandoned 3 years ago etc, a reference to something only working in Chrome v12(we are on v90 now IIRC) etc etc. It seems like a lot of what I come across on there is just so out of date that I personally do not put value on it.

As such I personally avoid it now like I used to avoid experts exchange that was the stack-overflow-before-stack-overflow.

I wonder if I am alone...?

2 comments

Given you mention Chrome, maybe you are a JS dev, and maybe things move a bit faster for that language/ecosystem than for others (to put it mildly).
I had to figure out how to do something with videoJS and all I could find were answers for the old version of the lib, there were new answers but they were buried and hard to find.