Re:Whither Stack Overflow
by hsmallbone on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:27AM
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I often wish there was a site like SO with a great community around building task-oriented code-first samples to replace shoddy project documentation. Often with SO the accepted answer is too specific, outdated or not descriptive enough but its existence locks out better responses. I would prefer a canonical, up-to-date wiki answer than strict authorship most of the time. I've taken a few stabs at building a solution to this problem but I think finding the right mix is super important.
Re:Whither Stack Overflow
by hsmallbone on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @01:04AM
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Yes, I am in the beta. Does not seem like it provides much of the topic hierarchy (beyond 1-2 layers) or ability for long-form content that I would like. I built this https://srcbottle.com that approximates what I would like but am still playing around with it.
The latter point is really important. I use API documentation whenever it is actually reasonably complete and up-to-date. But with many abysmal documentations (cough Rails cough) I just go straight for SO because the thing I'm looking for is probably not even documented. Or if not, I won't find it in there because search is only by class/method name, not by task.