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I stopped asking/answering questions ages ago as I felt the "moderation" was stifling and frankly unhelpful.

• jillesvangurp 2y ago
  It's been ages since I bothered answering stuff there. It just got really hard to find stuff that I can answer that still needs answering. The signal to noise ratio is terrible. And at the same time when I ask a question, I rarely get good answers. Or any answers. A lot of the people capable of answering simply aren't there any more. The community quality went down, it seems and this kind of confirms that. It's also much less useful in dealing with weird errors. I end up on Github issues more often than on stack overflow these days. And Google redirecting me to a decade old stack overflow topic on issues with current versions of things that are new is just not helpful. The vast majority of stuff on e.g. gradle is so out of date that most of the solutions stopped working years ago. This is a gradle issue btw. It has poor documentation, and they keep changing things in compatibility breaking ways. Just a few days ago I had a JVM crash. The error message landed me to a github issue describing the exact issue I had; including a helpful work around. Something related to netty and alpine's libc implementation. Problem solved. That used to be where stackoverflow was the goto solution. Not anymore. It had nothing to offer here. Nobody asked. Nobody answered. Or maybe they did and their SEO sucks. I don't know. But it's a pattern I noticed in recent years where it's just not that helpful anymore and things like github issues are actually a better place to get helpful answers from experts using and producing the software. I actually leave comments there too when I think I can add value. Stackoverflow is no longer the best place for that level of support.