Comment by satvikpendem
3 years ago
I actually wrote about this phenomenon in my Tell HN post a few weeks ago:
Tell HN: Discord is obviating my need to use StackOverflow
3 years ago
I actually wrote about this phenomenon in my Tell HN post a few weeks ago:
Tell HN: Discord is obviating my need to use StackOverflow
Reading your Tell made me realize something – I just don’t really google things anymore or look for answers online. Either read the official docs or ask the resident expert in my company for help.
SO feels increasingly less fitting as my problems become more niche and discord et al are flooded with newbies who can’t help me. Or it would take so long to even explain my problem that there’s no way a chat has the attention span required.
Depends on the Discord. Some have some pretty advanced members in there, usually the creators of whatever library or framework I need to use.
That might be it. I haven’t needed help with a specific library or framework in a long time. The problems I struggle with are more conceptual in nature. Like how to design a solution so the implementation itself is easy or obvious.
The tools are like a 3rd level concern. Just pick whatever gets closest.
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It's basically true. I get the best support from some official Discords... A lot of it is from just searching and some is from just posting a question. It would be a pity if it were to just go away and never be recorded for all the smart answers would be lost.