"StackOverflow was way more fun (and useful) at the beginning."
Wait, what? How could SO possibly be less useful today than it was a few years ago. Anytime I have any programming question I immediately google it and odds of a StackOverflow answer are very high.
I started iOS dev when it was fairly new and it sucked. So many bugs, gotchas, and misc shortcoming of the dev environment, Obj-C, or the SDK. Every single issue I ran into has now been cleanly answered on SO. Things I wasted dozens of hours on then would take me mere minutes as a new dev today.
I sympathize with it not being as fun to answer questions today, but I have no idea how you can say it was more useful then than it is now.
I meant useful for getting answers to new questions.
Meaning, if you're having a problem with something, and you googled it but didn't find answers ... I don't think you'll get useful results by posting the question to SO.
But of course it's still tremendously useful for the archive of questions and answers that it hosts.
"if you're having a problem with something, and you googled it but didn't find answers ... I don't think you'll get useful results by posting the question to SO."
I disagree. I just joined recently and that is exactly how I've used SO and in every instane I've gotten an answer to my question - and fast. Very fast.
Wait, what? How could SO possibly be less useful today than it was a few years ago. Anytime I have any programming question I immediately google it and odds of a StackOverflow answer are very high.
I started iOS dev when it was fairly new and it sucked. So many bugs, gotchas, and misc shortcoming of the dev environment, Obj-C, or the SDK. Every single issue I ran into has now been cleanly answered on SO. Things I wasted dozens of hours on then would take me mere minutes as a new dev today.
I sympathize with it not being as fun to answer questions today, but I have no idea how you can say it was more useful then than it is now.