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The problem with SO is that obsolete answers are never marked as such. You might find the best way to do X in 2015, but perhaps that's worse than finding nothin
by ta1243 2y ago
The problem with SO is that obsolete answers are never marked as such. You might find the best way to do X in 2015, but perhaps that's worse than finding nothing.
- Syntaf 2y agoThis is especially true for the older frameworks like rails. Half the answers are for rails 2.0 and the other half tell you to just “install this gem” which monkey patches some part of the framework that has long since been deprecated/removed
- addicted 2y agoThe problem with marking answers “obsolete” is that many code bases are old. You need those answers.
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoObsolete answers shouldn't be removed. They should be de-ranked and marked as such, but still available without extra clicks.
- ta1243 2y agoAnd pointed to newer ways of doing it