I recently made a post on Twitter regarding how I am finding myself using StackOverflow a lot less, with things like GitHub issues and good documentation replacing it.

With this overwhelming response, I thought I would look into why so many people have a similar point of view.

So what did I learn?

• Getting better as a developer means you stop using StackOverflow
• New technologies are not covered as much on StackOverflow
• Lots of libraries exist on GitHub now with direct answers from the developers
• Better answers are provided on other forums like GitHub issues and Reddit
• People have more confidence an answer will be provided on GitHub
• Good documentation means less need for StackOverflow
• The community is no longer that positive on StackOverflow
• A lot of questions get closed without an answer on StackOverflow
• CEO of StackOverflow promised an overhaul of the website but it never happened.
• StackOverflow answer date isn't very easily seen. It could be very old or new
• Not many people vote on StackOverflow anymore, making it less useful.

Here are some tweets responses I found that related to these topics.