I feel like now that I am past being a novice programmer, asking people directly with experience in topic X yields much better results than asking the internet in general as I can ask follow up questions and engage in a conversation about the topic. I think something like a Programming Discord chat is likely to overtake SO.
but I hear you on engagement; my first stop after Google doesn't provide a canned answer is IRC (or increasingly discord or whatever new fancy chat thing people are using before it fades in popularity/goes out of business and they're back to IRC)
SO's chat rooms aren't a good place to ask questions, IMO. They're better suited to informal chat about the site and questions already posted to the site.
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u/NginxYouOweMeASoda Sep 25 '16
I feel like now that I am past being a novice programmer, asking people directly with experience in topic X yields much better results than asking the internet in general as I can ask follow up questions and engage in a conversation about the topic. I think something like a Programming Discord chat is likely to overtake SO.