Tell HN: Discord is obviating my need to use StackOverflow

📰 Hacker News · satvikpendem

Everyone's talking about ChatGPT eating SO's lunch these days, but I've found Discord servers are vastly more responsive and more correct than any AI tool. I can usually ask a question on Discord and get a response within 30 seconds as many people start responding. Sometimes they ask clarifying questions and generally speaking that will be enough for them to answer. If I asked the same question on SO, I would have to wait days, months, or even years for an answer. This is what happened to some of the questions I've seen there, with many questions also not having any answers at all. The problem, of course, is indexability for search engines; SO is very indexable, and Discord is opaque. People therefore keep asking the same questions over and over again on the Discord server. For those curious as to what Discord servers I'm in (grouped into folders, comments in parentheses): Web Dev: - Rome Tools (makers of an all-in-one JS toolchain, written in Rust) - Deno - Ne

Published 10 Feb 2023
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