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Update: Apparently #Stackblitz isn't good enough for #StackOverflow and I need to use their specific system for drafting my minimal reproduction.

So my #StackOverflow question was auto-closed because I used #Stackbiltz and not their "Stack snippets". It literally would have taken less time to click the Stackblitz link than to tell me it's not good enough but whatever.

After editing the question I can ask for it to be reopened, but this apparently goes to some kind of human review? Seriously? Just fuck right off.

I know StackOverflow culture is somewhat of a meme in the dev community and I've experienced it myself before, but I haven't tried the site in a few years now. Is this really reflective of typical responses these days?

Are there other sites people are using for programming Q&A these days? I have a hard time imagining wanting to come back to this in the future.

@develwithoutacause I had similar experiences and stopped using it long ago.
I use my Slack channels for questions. This is a bit sad, because it is not indexed, and the info there will never be discovered by anyone else. Leave alone the closed thing there.

Some of the AI tools are helpful. If only for rubber-ducking and giving some general direction.

@develwithoutacause
yeah, AI results are not that good, but it is a better rubber duck than an actual rubber duck
Often, the answers are _so_ wrong that the correct answer comes right to me somehow!
I got an occasional correct answer tho! (but you have to know enough to be able to verify this anyway....)

Perhaps try it over here?
No experience here, but the platform formally known as Twitter is plain unsuited anyway!

@sanderelias Still lacking a real answer on #stackoverflow so I very well might try here. Search is better now, which hopefully helps with the indexing problem.

I think the biggest issue with #Mastodon for that kind of support use case is lack of markdown, code formatting, and a hard character limit on posts. It's just not intended for this purpose.