> Possibly the types of questions I need answered has changed, but I think it's more that everything on stackoverflow is out of date or off topic. No, I think

> Possibly the types of questions I need answered has changed, but I think it's more that everything on stackoverflow is out of date or off topic. No, I think it's the former. I use SO to find out how to do equivalent tasks in new languages. For example, I use Python a lot; JavaScript, not so much. So when I do use JavaScript, I'm always searching for things like "js iterate over object" or "js string slicing", etc. SO is great for that. GitHub issues would be completely useless for that. I think you underestimate how many students/novices are reliant on SO for this type of searching. GitHub issues are more for if you are having a specific problem with a specific library.