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Stack overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 1 day ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 21 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Even without LLMs, it’s possible StackOverflow would have eventually faded into irrelevance

Yeah, exactly. A lot of groups have a Discord :( or other forums where people ask questions. I know I've had to ask questions on Svelte's Discord :( for example. And I think even once on some YouTube influencer's Slack...

Sucks cuz both of those places are silos and my questions and answers are forever lost.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Projects that use Discord for support piss me right off. What a stupid way to keep answering the same question over and over again.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 27 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

It's not like discord is any better than SO. It's a closed platform, often with no read access if you don't want to register, and it's not searchable in the slightest.

I would take SO any day over discord.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Can people access to discord from corporate networks? I'm fucked if the Google answer gave me reddit or github as the answers because they're blocked.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Github is blocked for you? Bruh

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 hours ago

I had to open a ticket for them to unblock the python pep pages! I was trying to teach my intern the pep-8 and didn't had access. Fucking crazy.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I don't know, but for reddit you may try one of the redlib instances, and gothub for github. I don't think discord has such frontends

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 7 points 21 hours ago

Yep. 200% agree. I still post questions on SO, but when I don't get any answers, then I have to go to Discord... :(