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Looking for a Q&A community that isn't as restrictive as StackOverflow (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip to c/programming@programming.dev

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I'm trying to find a place where you can ask broader development questions, not just specific error messages.

StackOverflow and Codidact are way too restrictive, if your question isn't a precise technical issue with a reproducible example, it gets shut down immediately. Reddit and Lemmy seem more focused on news and memes; actual questions and discussions tend to just sink without engagement. And honestly, the kind of specific error-driven questions StackOverflow excels at are things AI can solve instantly now.

What I'm really looking for is a community (forum, Discord, whatever) where you can get help on broader topics related to software engineering.

Does anything like this still exist? Somewhere with actual humans willing to discuss the process of building software, not just fix syntax?

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The company is going forward with it because the "active community" killed their site and now they have no choice.

If they had done it before AI became a viable alternative they might still have some users.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I agree, I think it’s a big shift that’s coming too late. One of the staff members posted a long explanation about it that I thought sounded reasonable though, so we’ll see

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago

To be honest I suspect they wanted to do this before, but the power mods wouldn't allow it. I definitely remember the staff posting a proposal to allow second chances for closed questions, and it was downvoted to hell by the mods. They presumably got scared because they were getting a lot of free labour from the mods (even if it probably wasn't exactly the kind they wanted).

Now StackOverflow is dead the mods have no power, so they are free to make changes.