Occasionally, doing proper research on a topic I need help with, just to create a detailed question on SO has solved my problem before receiving any answers. So I think it's good, that you can't just write I don't understand xy but do some research and try to describe the code / problem / goals in detail.
But I also like people to post questions here on DEV to be in a caring, supportive community! 👍
SO and DEV seem to have different goals and communities, so that makes perfect sense. Personally, I prefer stack-overflow for specific questions, which is what I tend to deal with, but it's also nice to see that there's DEV as a place to post more open-ended questions that can lead to discussions. SO pretty clearly doesn't want to become that kind of platform and I think the important thing is to just accept that. It's not for everyone, but if it was just like DEV, we'd just end up with two platforms filling the same niche and splitting the community.
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Occasionally, doing proper research on a topic I need help with, just to create a detailed question on SO has solved my problem before receiving any answers. So I think it's good, that you can't just write
I don't understand xybut do some research and try to describe the code / problem / goals in detail.But I also like people to post questions here on DEV to be in a caring, supportive community! 👍
SO and DEV seem to have different goals and communities, so that makes perfect sense. Personally, I prefer stack-overflow for specific questions, which is what I tend to deal with, but it's also nice to see that there's DEV as a place to post more open-ended questions that can lead to discussions. SO pretty clearly doesn't want to become that kind of platform and I think the important thing is to just accept that. It's not for everyone, but if it was just like DEV, we'd just end up with two platforms filling the same niche and splitting the community.