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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by stordoff on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:31AM (#14918623)
Same here. I've been googling around Django _a lot_ over the last few months (first time using Python for anything web-based, and first time setting up anything more complicated than just nginx/Caddy on the server in a long time, so I had a lot of questions).

I probably ended up on SO hundreds of times in that period, and never once saw Documentation mentioned (I _may_ have technically seen it in the nav bar, but just seeing "Documentation" in that context I'm going to assume it is documentation _for_ SO and just ignore it).

E: Forgot to mention, even reading the title of this post my initial thought was that it was documentation relating to the sunsetting of SO (which sounded crazy).

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by TuringTest on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:49AM (#14919054)
> Forgot to mention, even reading the title of this post my initial thought was that it was documentation relating to the sunsetting of SO (which sounded crazy)

And I thought it was Stack Overflow sunsetting the very idea of tech documentation because now everybody just read the SO thread for everything they want to do, which is even craziest.

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by tedmiston on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:55AM (#14920093)
Django is a weird case too because the official docs are so good and also offer very good tutorials. And the Two Scoops book is such an invaluable reference too. Reading both would put you in the position where you won't really need SO for Django questions.
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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by stordoff on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:23PM (#14922248)
Definitely, the official docs are fantastic. A lot of the SO use came from having a solution based on the docs, but wanting to check I wasn't missing a prefered/recommended way to do it, or being fairly sure something would be a Django built-in but not finding it (so SO was a bridge from how I was describing something to where it was in the official docs).
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