As a power-whiner that racked up points on low value “acshually” style response comments, I’ve decided to lock your questions and edit the body of your question for you.

Please come back when your question is:

Vague enough it no longer describes your issue or context
Specific enough that it doesn’t match the 50 other posts you read that failed to help you
And I roll a d20 and reach a value greater than 18.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

10/10 no notes

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 26 minutes ago

Sorry, your question was marked as fugly and it was already answered in [picture of a cock covered in poop here].

[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Literally any question I asked was met by some snide asshole. Like I'm at the stage where I don't know the jargon to explain my issue and that was somehow an affront to God to them. I get it, repeat questions suck, but the answers they'd link to didn't help me because I couldn't understand the jargon in the answers.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

"Why are you using PHP instead of Py Go ++ Framework???? Its way betger for use cases of 100,000 people or more."

Nevermind that you may be supporting a legacy system used by 20 people that runs on a literal potato anyway.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If one suspects there is a better answer to 'the question behind the question':

answer the actual question that was asked, then
ask the question behind the question and answer that too.

Infuriating when people only do the latter. Particularly when I come by a question that is my EXACT problem, and none of the answers even attempt to answer the question that was asked.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Looks like it was already on a long-term decline, AI just threw it off a cliff. It was likely ripe for an alternative.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 hour ago

It got pretty toxic

You can tell by the fact that Covid has a massive influx into tech and the platform rapidly collapsed at that time.

If your question was good it would go unanswered because a lot of pros abandoned the platform, if you were new it was too technical, and if you were junior your question was marked as a dupe and you were told to look at a 12 year old question from an ancient version of a library that’s not supported.

Sometimes someone would correct an old post to update it, but because it would never get seen they’d never bubble up to replace the comically old answers.

They burned the candle at both ends by not being good for newbs or experienced devs.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 points 1 hour ago

Its dead because its biggest users are useless asshokes.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

just a shitty place to get help. gave up contributing there years ago because of all the gatekeeping. their janky login popup didn't help either.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

It was very fun when you answered a few questions and unlocked privileges.

Then we all got a reminder why some people aren’t invited to parties.

[–] scottedwards200@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not sure where to go now though. Codidact.com is growing at least but it’s still really small

[–] nooch@lemmy.vg 1 points 40 minutes ago

Thanks for sharing!

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 34 minutes ago

For some reason, they managed to fuck up their login page so much, that it is literally impossible for me to sign up to it. I have tried multiple times in the last year and every single time I could not sign up for some weird reason.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Also, Nazis.