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Re:The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis by wvh on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:53AM (#41377794)
There are a lot of questions that try to find out if something is still the best way of doing things or the right technical choice at the present time. Those questions feel like duplicates or opinions, but are really not in many cases. Some areas of expertise move a lot faster, answers to questions about for instance Kubernetes or Javascript ecosystems tend to be out of date pretty quickly.

At least I feel more often the need to ask if I'm making a sane choice for the next few years rather than literal `1 + 1` questions with clear ever-green answers, which StackOverflow seems to prefer.

Re:The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis by layer8 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:09AM (#41377874)
Maybe there should be a way to “bump” a question after a year or so, adding a comment along those lines.

Otherwise, if you explain why you’re asking the question again, link to the previous question, and maybe present arguments why you think the old answers might be outdated, then it’s lesa likely to be closed as a duplicate.