Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by howmayiannoyyou on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:02PM (#29406961)

IMHO the biggest offender:

    https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

They are making me insane with the modal login demand. I wonder if Google has downgraded the authoritative standing of StackOverflow?

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by dmurray on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:44PM (#29407488)

These definitely aren't what the OP are talking about. They focus on original content but the quality is not great.

The other sites, every page is a mirror of an SO page, with worse CSS. Maybe you haven't encountered them yet!

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by sireat on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:21PM (#29407205)

geeksforgeeks actually has humanly created articles. The quality varies (kind of like W3Schools does).

With ublock origin I have not seen any modal logins.

For example this article on red black trees: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/red-black-tree-set-1-introduct... does not seem that horrible with proper references to CLRS and everything

OP is talking about ugly looking automated Stack Overflow copies. No idea how those end up so high in rankings.

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by phgn on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:07PM (#29407031)

Do they not have original content? I'm always frustrated when I click too fast and land on geeksforgeeks.org, because their code examples are so low quality and without explanations.

I didn't notice SO being this bad.

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by 0des on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:31PM (#29407315)

This site has fooled me once or twice. I think there are other domains that point to the same data-set, because that's not the only domain serving up this exact content.

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by S6eUL on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:19PM (#29407949)

See this reddit answer on how to circumvent the login prompt: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q0oqai/what_is...

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by chakkepolja on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#29407022)

you can use UBO element zapper, but i recommend staying away from that site except for leetcode type questions. The content quality is mixed at best.

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Re:Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? by jer0me on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:59PM (#29408420)

I’ve just disabled JavaScript. The site works fine and the prompt never appears.

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