Looks like Stack Overflow might have some unscheduled maintenance right now - I know it’s a site I spend a lot of time on!
I guess it is Friday, and the weekend… what are your plans?
(much love and respect to the SREs over there - outages are honestly, never fun)
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How about using the official documentation for the framework/language you are using and implement the feature in your own way?
Don't rely on others to write your code for you. That way you'll never learn and the stack overflow spiral continues
If you're using it to search for specific answers, you can always just Google
<your query> site:stackoverflow.com, then click⋮> Cached next to the result.This is a super useful hint / response! Thanks for sharing this one :-)
While comments to the effect of "Write your own code" are correct to an extent, there's no need to reinvent the wheel. If there's publicly available code, why not use it and save yourself some time? The error only comes when you don't read and edit what you paste.
That all said, the question is what do you really use StackOverflow for? Certainly for me it has been a source of wisdom about obscure error messages and strange snippets. But I don't feel like I couldn't live without it. Search engine still finds the obscure errors, and there's plenty of strange snippets elsewhere.
I prefer man pages and official documentation. SO is like Wikipedia, "mostly" accurate. I rarely prefer my implementation to be "mostly" accurate (if that happens it is better to be purely out of my incompetence than a CCPD*).
CCPD = Chronic Copy Paste Disorder.
(this is my first post here, and of course written on a lighter note, so please try and interpret it as such).
I wait...lol. I also noticed it was down yesterday too.
Copilot 🥳
I use GitHub discussions.
I’m a fan of Discussions, as well - I think as more folks start to use them they will become more useful (and they tend to be more specific to individual projects of course, which is a helpful way to focus the content).
I call my wife and tell her I love her.
Mild inconvenience intensifies 🥲
Probably the biggest problem is the interruption of routine. There's always another source of information, but that slight disruption can hit you hard.
Yes, this! I get into a habit of checking out a couple of the tags that I have an interest in, and when things are unavailable, it is an interruption for sure. I also go over there to get help when I can’t remember how to do something (that’s what happened yesterday, as I was looking for a “quick fix” to a MicroPython challenge I was hitting) - it was a good way to broaden my investigation to some other sources.
I always wonder what stackoverflow's devs do when their site is down.