I found SO to be pretty useless for more complicated questions. Sure, if you ask something that you could answer by looking into the docs then you are flooded w

I found SO to be pretty useless for more complicated questions. Sure, if you ask something that you could answer by looking into the docs then you are flooded with answers by dozens of people. But as soon as it gets to some obscure API maybe a handful people uses currently you not only get no constructive answers but get downvoted, get useless but borderline hateful comments and in the end the question gets closed because of $reasons. Now if you go and start googling that obscure API it's inevitable that you will find SO questions about it. "Great, maybe I can find something there in the comments" you think. But no, that question most likely is closed because of $reasons and has no comments because comments on closed questions are not allowed. In the last few years I had a handful of cases where even discussing with someone who didn't know the solution to my problem might have brought me a little nearer to the solution. But you even can't start a discussion in SO questions because if it's not an answer the question gets closed down - no matter how helpful the discussion might turn out for people with said problem.