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by leros 888 days ago
Stackoverflow has become almost hostile to use.

A few examples:

1) I ask for the best way to accomplish something. It gets closed for being an opinion based question.

2) I ask how to do something. People ask for code. I post my bad half working solution. My question gets closed for being an opinion based question.

3) I ask how to do something. It get closed as a duplicate but the existing question is out of date and/or doesn't answer my question.

4) If my question is allowed on Stackoverflow, it usually doesn't get a response.

This stuff doesn't happen all the time, but it's often enough that I no longer enjoy using Stackoverflow and just ask on Reddit instead where I get a plethora of comments with answers and opinions.