I haven't exactly had "bad" experiences on SO - but I do feel like it's generally a waste of time to ask questions on it. Basically - SO is very good at general

I haven't exactly had "bad" experiences on SO - but I do feel like it's generally a waste of time to ask questions on it. Basically - SO is very good at general knowledge questions (kinda ChatGPT territory) but bad at corner cases. A good example was this fiddly CSS / font question I had that had some constraints from a static site generator where you could inject custom CSS[1]. People really wanted me to accept answers that would not work for my constraint set, and I think the implicit answer is that the combination of formatting tools does not support what I want to do, but the whole thing was frustrating. I mostly think that, once you get to a certain level of proficiency, you're going to lose time on SO rather than gain it. You will spend a lot of time crafting a detailed and clear question that does have an answer - but on balance if you just read the docs / source / whatever you'll get the answer you need faster. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66619732/can-i-write-css-rules-so-that-emojis-get-different-weight-than-other-text https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66619732/can-i-write-css...