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Ask HN: What's the friendly alternative to Stackoverflow?
- ploika 9y agor/learnprogramming on Reddit is my suggestion. In general they're much more open to less laser-focused questions than would be allowed on Stack Overflow, and to helping people who might not fully know what questions to ask, or how to ask them.
- lumberjack 9y agochat.stackexchange.com programming.stackexchange.com IRC Freenode for whatever language/technology you use Or just use Stackoverflow and be very specific about your problem.
- vcanales 9y agoIRC is hit and miss with the friendliness. One tip is to make sure you ask properly: catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
- itamarst 9y agohttps://hashnode.com/ https://hashnode.com/ claims to be that. Not sure how friendly they are in practice, but worth checking out.
- tedmiston 9y agoI came by to recommend the Programmers Stack Exchange [1], which it looks like was renamed to Software Engineering [2]. It is more friendly to basic questions or ones that fall within the scope gray area than SO. [1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com [2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286962/is-software-engineering-the-replacement-of-programmers https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286962/is-software-...
- yesenadam 9y agoThank you for this question.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 9y agoAgreed. Didn't realize until I saw this question this is something I want too.
- rurban 9y agoQuora