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Re:Stack Overflow is documentation, not Q&A, and that's bad by nneonneo on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:49PM (#40004226)
Sure, but there’s more than one answer listed. If the right answer isn’t clearly up to date, try a different one, or sort by recency if you want to see newer answers.

And, if the accepted answer is hopelessly outdated, suggest an edit to add that caveat so others know to skip it.

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Re:Stack Overflow is documentation, not Q&A, and that's bad by qwerty456127 on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:41PM (#40008917)
People rarely care to provide new answers to old questions yet you can be unable to post a new question because it's exactly the same as the one asked and answered a decade ago. You just need a solution relevant to the present day but no, you can't ask for it.
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