Stack Overflow

Stack overflow has always been like this. I've been using it since 2021 and it's always people telling me I'm an idiot. They do usually answer my questions though, they just call me an idiot at the same time

Stack Overflow's toxicity is well known and part of its downfall.

As a newer web developer, the community in StackOverflow is super toxic. Whenever I ask a question, I am sure to look up my problem and see if there are any solutions to it already there. If there isn't, I post. Sometimes when I post, I get my post instantly deleted and linked to a post that doesn't relate at all to my issue or completely outdated.

Instead of clicking on Stack Overflow links or going to sketchy websites littered with ads and tracking cookies (or worse), I get good ideas that are very helpful.

I don't miss the days of trawling through stack overflow and medium posts looking for a solution to an obscure bug.

It's saved me a ton of time vs reading though wordy and outdated blog posts or waiting for someone to hopefully address a question on Stack Overflow.

To some degree this doesn't sound much different than people blindly copying answers from Stack Overflow without understanding what it does. A different source, but the same blind assumption that the answer is correct for what they're trying to do.