The Fall of Stack Overflow

Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by Eduard on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:01AM (#36858108)

sprinkle in a 100K+ reputation user commenting "this is easily answered with `man Y`" — oblivious to the fact that Y's manpage is a 188 page monster, and manpages being awkward to search in.

Case in point: https://stackoverflow.com/q/19622198

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by Culonavirus on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:53AM (#36858470)

Here's a question maybe someone can answer for me, or maybe I'm just stupid and other people don't need it, but...

What's up with the "man Y" aversion towards the usage of examples in the man pages? I don't expect some behemoth like ffmpeg to have a billion examples in the man files, but damn, every other reasonably sized CLI app would be so much easier to use, if you had just a dozen or two of examples at the end of the man file.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by no92 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:33AM (#36858727)

tldr pages do exactly this.

https://tldr.sh

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by djmips on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:58AM (#36859329)

bless you - I had no idea this existed!

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by odysseus on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:35AM (#36858742)

brew install tldr

tldr ffmpeg

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by Qwertious on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:15PM (#36888057)

`man` is "a documentation". It turns out there's more than one type of documentation, but lots of man-page writers didn't get the memo.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by firefoxd on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:06AM (#36858546)

I may be missing something, but the top answer is pretty good. And the comments even explain why searching for an answer on google might be difficult, and suggests how to.

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