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points by armchairhacker 1 day ago | 0 comments

SO has been useless for years now, but the other Stack Exchanges can be interesting, they deserve more spotlight.

SO was often a productivity loss for me because I'd scroll down and get distracted by stackexchange questions on the right side of the screen for half an hour

[–] joaovnunes 15 hours ago

me too. eventually I adblocked the sidebar and the navbar and most things that weren't the question, comments and answers since I went to the pages directly from search engine. It looked very clean

[–] kulahan 1 day ago

I really do love their other communities so much more. Lots of super interesting content - it feels like a new digg or something. I go to one of the other stacks and look at the most popular non-tech stack posts once or twice a week purely for entertainment. The breakdowns on obscure but interesting topics can get really fun to read!

[–] EvanAnderson 1 day ago

On the more-and-more rare occasion that I end up on Stack Overflow as a result of a search I find myself losing excessive time to following the random links to other communities. The other communities really are good stuff.