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I'm tired with their fragmenting their site into airtight topic specific QA sites, now with many questions one isn't sure where to post it to get max eyeballs.

I'm tired with their fragmenting their site into airtight topic specific QA sites, now with many questions one isn't sure where to post it to get max eyeballs. I feel that is something that could have avoided by design. Topics could have been managed through tags, instead of walling them off into separate sites. And the obsolescence, things are moving so fast in JavaScript, Android, even in QT, Clojure etc, many answers including accepted ones are obsolete, and misleading.

mrQozCodes 7y ago
Blazor is a thing that's coming up if you're interested in using C# for websites (along with .NET).
pytester 7y ago
>And the obsolescence, things are moving so fast in JavaScript, Android, even in QT, Clojure etc, many answers including accepted ones are obsolete, and misleading. This is the absolute worst aspect of the site to me. Some answers are version specific, some stop working overnight one day, some used to be good practice in 2011 and still work but really aren't any more and there is no sane mechanism for stack overflow to handle any of these things. This is quite apart from the multitude of answers which are voted to the top which are wrong, only partially right or bad answers.
- mLuby 7y ago
  Runnable code snippets are helpful in this regard, but even better would be runnable test cases. Example: How to check for Invalid Date in JS? ```js function invalidDate (date){return isNaN(date.valueOf())} console.assert(invalidDate(new Date("foo")) === true) console.assert(invalidDate(new Date()) === false) ``` But I'd expect if someone noticed an out-of-date answer they'd just comment and it'd get fixed that way.
hanniabu 7y ago
My biggest pain point with that is needing to register to each one. There's many times I've seen questions I'd love to answer, but then realize I'm no longer on stack overflow and I'm on some sys admin stack exchange that I can't comment on unless I sign up, in which case I just close the tab.
- luckylion 7y ago
  It's an extra step, but you don't really need to "sign up", you just activate your main account on that specific site and you're ready to go.
  - baud147258 7y ago
    And you can even get a reputation bonus on that specific site, so you already start with some privileges.
dehrmann 7y ago
I've been programming for 20-ish years, working for 13, and I google first, so when I have questions, they tend to be at boundaries of things where they don't fit neatly into one of their sites or near-duplicate questions with a subtle, but meaningful difference (that still gets tagged as a duplicate). Then I see someone asking a homework question who clearly has tried anything themselves, or a question that should have been googled first.
Shorel 7y ago
From a user perspective, I agree with you. But I think from a performance perspective it is impossible not to want to have several different databases each one with better performance than a single big one. And they have the traffic to have to worry about such things.

mrQozCodes 7y ago

Blazor is a thing that's coming up if you're interested in using C# for websites (along with .NET).

pytester 7y ago

>And the obsolescence, things are moving so fast in JavaScript, Android, even in QT, Clojure etc, many answers including accepted ones are obsolete, and misleading. This is the absolute worst aspect of the site to me. Some answers are version specific, some stop working overnight one day, some used to be good practice in 2011 and still work but really aren't any more and there is no sane mechanism for stack overflow to handle any of these things. This is quite apart from the multitude of answers which are voted to the top which are wrong, only partially right or bad answers.

mLuby 7y ago
Runnable code snippets are helpful in this regard, but even better would be runnable test cases. Example: How to check for Invalid Date in JS? ```js function invalidDate (date){return isNaN(date.valueOf())} console.assert(invalidDate(new Date("foo")) === true) console.assert(invalidDate(new Date()) === false) ``` But I'd expect if someone noticed an out-of-date answer they'd just comment and it'd get fixed that way.

hanniabu 7y ago

My biggest pain point with that is needing to register to each one. There's many times I've seen questions I'd love to answer, but then realize I'm no longer on stack overflow and I'm on some sys admin stack exchange that I can't comment on unless I sign up, in which case I just close the tab.

luckylion 7y ago
It's an extra step, but you don't really need to "sign up", you just activate your main account on that specific site and you're ready to go.
- baud147258 7y ago
  And you can even get a reputation bonus on that specific site, so you already start with some privileges.

dehrmann 7y ago

I've been programming for 20-ish years, working for 13, and I google first, so when I have questions, they tend to be at boundaries of things where they don't fit neatly into one of their sites or near-duplicate questions with a subtle, but meaningful difference (that still gets tagged as a duplicate). Then I see someone asking a homework question who clearly has tried anything themselves, or a question that should have been googled first.

Shorel 7y ago

From a user perspective, I agree with you. But I think from a performance perspective it is impossible not to want to have several different databases each one with better performance than a single big one. And they have the traffic to have to worry about such things.