Ask HN: Where does one search development advice these days?

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5 years ago

In the good old days (at least since online became a thing) I would have turned to the Usenet and would have got more or less meaningful responses within a couple of hours. When the Usenet started dwindling in relevance web forums took its place and eventually StackOverflow. But now it seems all these three places have become irrelevant

* The Usenet has become utterly irrelevant

* Equally web forums

* StackOverflow has archival value but for the rest it is a wide desert of 0-answer questions

* In my current case (an Android issue) even Google's own forum (https://groups.google.com/g/android-developers) appears to be only a honeypot to train their spam protection :)

So is there a place to turn to these days when someone is hitting a roadblock with a specific development issue or have they completely disappeared?

Thanks

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