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points by tayo42 1 day ago | 0 comments

Where else were people getting answers and help from between 2018 and AI getting good in the mean time? As I remember it there wasn't really an alternative.

Maybe it was more consolidation of tech and better docs over time.

[–] geraneum 1 day ago

Maybe they visited the website and the existing questions were enough? These stats seems to be questions asked. Maybe that’s the reason.

[–] jamesfinlayson 1 day ago

I was using StackOverflow pretty heavily in that time. I was doing PHP, Java and Groovy at the time, and PHP's documentation is pretty good. JavaDoc generated from source not so much...

[–] kstrauser 16 hours ago

I think a lot moved to subreddits. You could ask a decent question there and actually get answers, even if it didn’t meet SO’s purity requirements.

[–] Macha 19 hours ago

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