MSDN was really helpful once. I don't even know how they could destroy it relatively quickly. The current forums are indeed useless for the most part. I don't even know where to get deep technical information about MS tech stacks anymore.

> "please mark this issue as resolved so I can please my incompetent overlords with a point in a metric they are interested in because of the mentioned incompetence".

I agree that users tend to ask the right questions, but the lack of any coherent answer seems to be systematic.

Pinterest is spam if you don't have an account, which I would recommend to nobody because of such policies in the first place. Twitter did the same recently but at least it isn't as prominently featured in search results.

I don't know about w3schools. It did help me a few times. I guess because the content might be out of date? I am no web developer so I sometimes use it as a reference.

I think the worst aspect is that Google seems to favor news sites. Perhaps it is their SEO, but if a term you are looking up accidentally is part of a news article that was copied by tens of news outlets, you have to visit the dark net, page 2+ of Google results.