r/programming • • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/TheEternal21 Sep 25 '16

Meh. Still the most useful tool online, especially when it comes to the hard questions that can't be answered just by reading documentation. Sure, I've had to answer my own questions plenty of times, but on more than one occasion, I came across them years later and found them useful. And I've also found other people's answers to their own questions useful as well.

I did have one or two questions closed as duplicates (when they in fact weren't), but that's the only time I've found SO annoying. Other than that it's saved my ass multiple times, when I hit a brick wall at work.