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Has stackoverflow become a toxic environment especially for new programmers?

Your questions get down voted or closed so easily. What has been your experience and how would you improve it?

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Fayaz Ahmed

I stopped asking questions on stackoverflow because the 10x engineers always used to downvote the question because it was not up to the mark due to which stackoverflow banned my account.

Now my go to thing is discord and slack channels. People are nice over there and just answer you quicker.

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Panda Quests

Can you recommend a good discord or slack channel for ReactJS? Or for software architecture?

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Fayaz Ahmed

I am not much into the react community but I found this.

reactiflux.com/

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Adam AUTUORI

If it is to post questions whose answers already exist, If this is the case, we must make it clear to new developers how to solve problems. For my part :

  • I first read the official documentation, on the concept I want to study.
  • if the official doc is really too boring to understand (ex. React), often the blogs of amateur developers explain it much better.
  • I copy and paste the tutorial and I just make it work to understand it. I write my comments in my own words!
  • I save all this in my notes (with Typora), with short and simple sentences. No need to rewrite your own tutorial yourself.
  • I also don't forget to write down the errors encountered and their solution.

When editing a question on StackOverflow, a suggestive list appears. New developers should also learn how to formulate the right questions on Google.

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Panda Quests

Nice list and cool that you recommended Typora. I just looked at it and does make a good impression. I'll try it out!

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Stackoverflow has a lot of old bad questions, but with good answers. That's how it survives.

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Panda Quests

I rarely use stackoverflow these days. But coding review stackexchange is quite nice. You get a lot of improvement suggestions about your code, very detailed, and people generally upvote. In general the community there is very nice - so basically the opposite of SO. lol