[marcosdumay]

I bet you don't work mainly in C# or Javascript. (Or, well, Javascript SO has been downhill for a while, so maybe it's time to take it out of this list. I wouldn't know.)

On some stacks, you depend on SO for everything. Others have much more complete and usable documentation somewhere else that answers any question that SO would accept, so people don't need it at all.

[voxic11]

I work with C# and I almost never use stackoverflow anymore. Back in 2013 when I started working with it I remember I would use stackoverflow every day. But now I find way more answers in github issues. The answers on stackoverflow are usually really dated if they exist at all. Its almost like when microsoft made the move to dotnetcore and started hosting the project on github all the dotnet related activity on stackoverflow stopped.

[zihotki]

It's not that it has stopped, but there is less and less open topics where there is no solution. And those topics are usually (in my experience) niche topics and will get better discussion in GitHub issues or in a similar system. Or related to a legacy stuff, then SO could help.

In addition to that, quality of experience, code, as well as quality of documentation increased comparing to before .net core. I find myself often going to the official docs for documentation now, or just look in the sources or even debug the internals using available debug symbols.

[marcosdumay]

Interesting. Granted, I never looked at the .net github itself.