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FAQs can be used out laziness and and can be a sign that design is lacking, it’s true. But the fact that Stack Overflow exists is testament to the fact that the
by thenoblesunfish 5y ago
FAQs can be used out laziness and and can be a sign that design is lacking, it’s true. But the fact that Stack Overflow exists is testament to the fact that there is a certain class of questions that have answers which depend on ugly reality and hacks around all the leaky abstractions and less-than-optimal things we use every day.
- Closi 5y agoAlternatively, rather than view all Stack Overflow questions as inevitable, we could view Stack Overflow as a failure of the core documentation or system to address user issues sufficiently. And better documentation should result in fewer SO questions. In terms of the point of this article I think it is still in-line with what you are saying - as Stack Overflow answers are useful to solve an issue but are much harder to parse/read than properly written documentation on the same topic.