Lemmy is obviously inspired by Reddit. My map of the fediverse obviously not complete, so I ask myself if there is some free as in free software comparable to a q/a platform like stackoverflow?
Lemmy is obviously inspired by Reddit. My map of the fediverse obviously not complete, so I ask myself if there is some free as in free software comparable to a q/a platform like stackoverflow?
Well, the accepted answer is most probably the one that solved the problem for the asking person. I don’t think it should be that easily discarded. 😉
I use SO almost daily, and its accepted answers 90% of the time are not the best ones, and are often became wrong since they were originally answered.
Usually a question is never “dead” or “answered”, but needs to be constantly updated each year for the new / best way to solve something, accounting for new libraries, programming language or app updates, etc. IMO Q/A forums should always feel alive, and having something with the finality of being “answered”, doesn’t make too much sense.
At least they do let you vote on answers like here, which is the best way to see what’s correct.
This might be an actual use-case for hot-sorting comments
One wonders if their paradigm of “an accepted answer is accepted forever” is unhelpfully skewing them towards pure computer science problems (how can I implement this algorithm) rather than the practical sort (how do I solve this problem/issue).
Though, I will say that I don’t entirely disagree with the idea that questions should focus somewhat narrowly on a targeted language/platform (of course, if someone opens a question about a different language or platform CLOSED AS DUPLICATE).
It probably shouldn’t. It can be used as a sign of appreciation because like you said, it solved OP’s problem.