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Stack overflow still have users? These days it rarely shows up on my search results and when it does the answers are always outdated by several years.
Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too
What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.
I guess I've moved to the part of my career where Stack Overflow isn't that helpful, but I've found a lot of utility in searching issues on GitHub and Reddit posts.
I'm right there with you. It's nice to know it's been there if I needed it. I don't find myself there very often anymore and when I do it's often to compare official docs to other ways to approach something or because the getting started section of the official docs felt weird or wrong.
I'm grateful that Stackoverflow is a valid alternative to reddit for many things. Fuck reddit.
But are they losing the first positions because they're losing relevance, or is it due to other sites abusing seo and search engines abusing from advertising results?
I'd say the former.
Many queries don't find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I'm having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.
When I do find relevant answers, lately they're all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.
Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.