Who the hell wants whatever the alternative to stack overflow is?? I mean, what would that even be? Misleading Quora questions? Expertsexchange pages that give wrong answers and don’t let you view it without an account? Microsoft help forums where nobody even answers the question and the thread is just people complaining about the lack of answers? Old school forums where denver_coder12 just replies to his own question with “I fixed it”?
The pre stack overflow internet sucked ass.
PTSD Chihuahua
I think we’re good with stack overflow.
It is still a treasure trove of knowledge, accumulated over the years. I can’t see search results from reddit becoming less valuable any time soon.
I’m doing my part by redacting and removing all my reddit comments from the past 12 years. Reddit doesn’t deserve the traffic they get from search engines, if they don’t respect their users.
Reddit is like 50% of the reason Google is even useful anymore haha. So much useful, niche information.
Reddit threads are what I look for in search results!
But Reddit and SO are the only two results that give me the answers I need/want
Reddit threads are literally the only useful results half of the time.
yes.
Reddit >>> AI generated articles or bias sponsored reviews…
My standard workflow for researching X product I would like to purchase:
- Search X product.
- Click through some vendor pages selling X product.
- Search for reviews/comparisons of different versions of X product.
- Read a few pages of utter junk that seems like spit the vendor pages through an AI generator.
- Go to Reddit and find real reviews.
StackOverflow isnt bad to read. Its just horrible to post or comment on.
Just curious. Why are Reddit results (or Stack Overflow) not good when searching? They are usually the highest quality content, imo.
I also add “-site:domain.com” to filter stuff out when I need to.
Personally it boils down to two things:
- A majority of SO answers are duplicates, and it’s a 50% chance the answer will actually work for my use case
- Reddit responses are opinions, usually without sources, and I want the actual source with as little opinion as possible
Most of the time I do end up using “-site:reddit.com” for that exact purpose.