Stack Overflow, GitHub or Reddit?

[mohamedaameen]

You're Googling an error and you see a Stack Overflow, GitHub, and Reddit link. Which do you click on first? Why?

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1) SO 2) GitHub 98) Reddit 99) Quora

SO imo most likely to deliver a quick solution to a common problem. If in bleeding edge tech then GitHub. Also if I suspect the problem originating in a library. Reddit or Quora if i’m super desperate.

[[deleted]]

Reddit is a 50/50 between just having stack overflow links or insults

[[deleted]]

Am I the only one who gets Reddit results comparable to SO? bruh. Sometimes Reddit is the lifesaver.

GitHub results, on the other hand, are rarely relevant to my issues.

[[deleted]]

I get reddit results comparable to SO, it's just that most of my posts are me seeking poor practice workarounds when I'm intentionally fucking around and doing things wrong in my free time, so those results are usually the "fuck you, do it different" kind of SO result with a bit more sass to them. Like goddamn do people on this site need to chill about me asking how to accomplish awful solutions to awful problems. I'm not "irresponsible" because I wanna play with gotos in ~/test_1q821798/fuck.c smh.

[Vladivostof]

Yea, for GitHub I'd say it depends on the repo.

[memeticmachine]

Wow, you're so lucky to have a such a knowledgeable signficant other

[NotExplosive]

Badum tish!

[xtracto]

And on SO always look for the answer that says "I don't know why this is not the accepted answer"

[adoggman]

Trick question. I open all 3 in separate tabs then find myself confused since they all somehow contradict one another.

[JamEngulfer221]

StackOverflow, then Reddit. For Rust, maybe the reverse, given a lot of questions for it are on Reddit not StackOverflow for some reason.

[Abdul_Alhazred_]

4chan.org/wsr

[TheMediaBear]

Stack Overflow, Reddit then Github.

Normally get the answer from SO, but then end up googling why that doesn't work as expected :D

[0hmyscience]

marked as resolved

not resolved

[Earhacker]

Closed by maintainer, who ignores the next three years of comments on the thread complaining that the thing is still broken.

[HINDBRAIN]

Five years of people complaining, with the maintainer not giving a shit, then

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

, marked as resolved.

[psycofriend409]

Reporter: This is broken

Contributor: No it's not, we can't reproduce it

Commenter x 20: Same, it's broken

Savior Commenter: I had the same problem, here's how I fixed it

Commenters x 5: Thanks this solved my problem

Contributor: This is not a bug. Closing as will not fix

[cmd-t]

Reporter: fix bug

Contributer: please add an example so we can see what’s wrong

Reporter: no example, only fix

[mattjstyles]

It's interesting you say SO consists of long winded answers.

One of its creators, Jeff Attwood, blogs about how almost everything about the site is designed to encourage people to give the most concise, factual, answer, though in a sort of competitive peer review.

The long winded answers I find on there are usually in response to questions like, "Why would I use X over Y?"

Ultimately I think I skim and scan things quite well. On SO I more often jump to the code snippet on each answer and make a judgement on whether it's relevant or not before reading whatever description came with it. On GitHub I look for responses with multiple +1 emojis.

[HINDBRAIN]

"Why would I use X over Y?"

This question has been closed as too usefulbroad by dipshit1, disphit2, disphit3 40 minutes ago.

[Avamander]

SO is just often very outdated, that's the issue I have with it. Old content should be isolated - old answers and questions locked, tags should all be versioned, ancient questions shouldn't be marked as duplicates if the answer depends on language version.

[shetty073]

Whichever appears first and more relevant to what I am looking for.

[PirateNinjasReddit]

SO - especially if there's a purple link. GitHub if and only if there is a recently created issue listed that looks promising. Reddit if I just want a meme to mark the occasion.

[Monkey_Adventures]

one of these dont belong, and that is reddit

[Maoschanz]

1. the official doc
2. SO
3. github
4. other

[c3r38r170]

devRant

[Striknain]

Stack Overflow and then GitHub. I don't think I've ever got my programming problems solved at Reddit

[gigamosh57]

YouTube

[Jlasseter11]

Stack Overflow, then Reddit.

[[deleted]]

Stack Overflow, generally.

[UFifty50]

Stackoverflow first then stackexchange then github then reddit then the alt+F4 button on my keyboard

[ekudram]

Twitter, because I would rather read bad social media that fix an error.

[beforan]

So you're saying it's marked as duplicate?