Well, there's a few issues. Some, may be sour grapes, on my part, but some, were inevitable.
SO has been a great site for me. Not too long ago, it was always my first stop, when looking for correct solutions to difficult problems.
I'm a highly experienced engineer, and a first-class debugger. I always get my bug ... eventually.
What SO would give me, was a correct solution, very quickly. I would ask a question, and have two or three excellent answers, in a matter of minutes.
I could definitely have found the answer, myself, but I would have had to do stuff like set up playgrounds, or even full applications.
Nowadays, they require question askers to do exactly that. In The Days of Yore, I could ask a question, without having to have gone through an hour of debugging and prototyping, and have a great answer.
But, at its heart, it's another wiki documentation site, and wikis don't age well. The WordPress Codex is damn near worthless, and even the great PHP docs are showing their age.
SO has been a great site for me. Not too long ago, it was always my first stop, when looking for correct solutions to difficult problems.
I'm a highly experienced engineer, and a first-class debugger. I always get my bug ... eventually.
What SO would give me, was a correct solution, very quickly. I would ask a question, and have two or three excellent answers, in a matter of minutes.
I could definitely have found the answer, myself, but I would have had to do stuff like set up playgrounds, or even full applications.
Nowadays, they require question askers to do exactly that. In The Days of Yore, I could ask a question, without having to have gone through an hour of debugging and prototyping, and have a great answer.
But, at its heart, it's another wiki documentation site, and wikis don't age well. The WordPress Codex is damn near worthless, and even the great PHP docs are showing their age.