• Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    I sometimes browse for help and find this page, nowadays I just read documentation or enter the stackoverflow gauntlet.

    All of this is because I don’t like bothering people with my problems and prefer to spend double the time just looking for information

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      I don’t know if this is a trend, but I’m finding fewer SO answers with outside links justifying or explaining their answers. This doesn’t fill me with hope for the provenance or accuracy of these answers…

      Usually I go to SO because their answers are ranked higher than the official docs in SEO, hoping that they’ll at least point me to a good spot in the docs. If that goes away, well, fuck em