[LtWorf]

> I recently learned that GitHub has a discussions page which is separate from the issues pages.

The people who are good won't be using that.

When I was a student working on my thesis I realised I was too advanced to ask questions on stackoverflow and I would not be receiving useful help there. My issues were too uncommon and specific, because the simple ones that stackoverflow is good at solving were not blocking me.

I guess something similar happens there, with the extra thing that very few people know and use discussion pages.

[mattgreenrocks]

The fun of programming begins at the point that stackoverflow/Google begins to cease providing ready-made answers.

[gavinray]

This is the reason why blogs should exist

The only things worth posting to them are information you yourself weren't able to find on the internet.